PADI SPECIALTY COURSES

Did you ever feel like you needed a greater challenge or perhaps wanted to increase your diving knowledge and self-confidence underwater? Then come to Tioman Island and join one of our Specialty Courses. Specialty Courses give you the power of planning and executing dives in specific areas. Specialty courses take one to three days to complete and B&J Diving Center has many programs to choose:

PADI Digital Underwater Photographer

Underwater photography is one of the most popular diving specialties, and the rise of digital underwater photography has made it easier and more fun than ever. This is why there are actually two PADI underwater photography courses.

The PADI Digital Underwater Photographer course gets you going quickly with today modern digital equipment, whether you use a point-and-shoot snap camera or a sophisticated D-SLR like the pros.

The PADI Underwater Photographer course is a more traditional photography course designed for conventional film equipment.

You will learn how to capture images to share with your friends and family. It’s a great way to relive the adventures you’ve had.

The PADI Enriched Air Specialty course is the most sought after specialty course in the world so you've made a good choice.

It's a 1 1/2 to 2 day program where you have to self-study the manual first and watch a video. Ones this is completed, our Enriched Air instructor will spend around 3 hours with you going through the Knowledge Reviews and give you additional information on Enriched Air Nitrox. Once the academic part is completed you have to pass a final exam (25 questions, multiple choices), analyze your Enriched Air tanks and go out diving on Nirtrox on day 2.

DPVs (aka scooters) offer a thrilling way to see a lot of underwater territory in a brief amount of time. They scoot you through the water without kicking. Whether making a beach or boat dive, a DPV is a great way to see more and have a blast doing it.

Underwater scooters (DPVs) are a kick! It’s all fun.

You learn Diver propulsion vehicle dive planning organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards, Equipment considerations, Diver etiquette and how to avoid harming fragile aquatic life.

After your first few scuba dives, you soon want to explore a bit deeper. There’s something exciting and mysterious about the depth that attracts dives. This specialty course gives you the opportunity to explore the deep. It’s exhilarating.

During the 2 day course you will conduct a total of 4 dives and will learn techniques for diving in the deeper in a range of 18-40 metres. The training includes deep scuba diving equipment considerations, experience in planning, organizing and making at least four deep dives under the supervision of your PADI Instructor.

Whether sunk on purpose as an artificial reef or the result of mishap, wrecks open fascinating windows to the past. Most divers find wrecked ships, airplanes and even automobiles nearly irresistible because they’re intriguing to explore, exciting avenues of discovery, and usually teeming with aquatic life. The PADI Wreck Diver course teaches you the ins and outs of rewarding, responsible wreck diving.

During the PADI Wreck Diver course you will be visiting wrecks, unlocking mysteries and starting to gain the knowledge and experience that allows you to see things that others overlook. Sometimes, only the trained, experienced eye recognizes that a small hole or open door likely caused the vessel’s demise.

We will train you techniques for diving exploring shipwrecks, and how to avoid common hazards, Wreck scuba diving equipment considerations, Considerations and techniques for entering intact wrecks, Experience in planning, organizing and making at least four wreck dives under the supervision of your PADI Instructor

What is neutral buoyancy? Scuba divers like to be neutrally buoyant so they neither sink nor float. It can be a tricky thing. Divers who’ve mastered the highest performance levels in buoyancy stand apart. You’ve seen them underwater. They glide effortlessly, use less air and ascend, descend or hover, almost as if by thought. They interact gently with aquatic life and affect their surroundings minimally. The PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy course refines the basic skills you learned as a PADI Open Water Diver and will make you a better diver.

This course will help you to trim your gear so you’re perfectly balanced in the water, to reduce your weights so you’re not too light nor too heavy by even a slight degree, to improve your breathing and to streamline yourself to save air and move smoothly through the water.

Have you ever been scuba diving and asked yourself, "What was that?”
The PADI Project AWARE Fish Identification Specialty course provides you with the fish identification basics so that next time, you know the answer.

You’ll find you enjoy your dives even more when you recognize the creatures that you see. Once you learn the main fish families and characteristics it will help you decipher the species you see all over the world.

For example, a butterfly fish in the Caribbean has a similar shape to a butterfly fish in Southeast Asia, but their colours and markings maybe wildly different. If you know what fish family it belongs to, it becomes much easier to look up the local name or at least be able to intelligently ask the local scuba instructor what you saw. That works better than asking about a “yellow thingy with a funny tail fin.”

Look closer to see more on your next dive. Look for symbioses, predator/prey and other relationships between aquatic plant and animal life. Learn not just what fish and animals are, but how they interact with each other and the environment.

During the Underwater Naturalist Specialty course we will not only teach you to identify fish but the major aquatic life groupings including their interactions and factual information that dispels negative myths. You will learn the role of aquatic plants, food chains and predator prey relationships. An important part is also a responsible interactions between divers with aquatic life.

You put this information into practice during your two open water dives.

Be the diver everyone wants to follow and make your sense of direction legendary with the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course.

Finding your way is not a matter of luck! When everyone’s buzzing about a reef or checking out shipwreck, they’re having a great time – until it’s time to go. Then they turn to you, because as a PADI Underwater Navigator, you know the way back to the boat.

Underwater navigation can be challenging, but in the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course, you master the challenge. You learn the tools of the trade, including navigation patterns, natural navigation (without a compass), compass navigation, how to “mark” or relocate a submerged object or position from the surface, underwater map making and dive site relocation.

You put this information into practice during your two open water dives.

As the sun sets, you don your dive gear, slip on your mask, bite down on your dive regulator, take a deep breath and you step off the boat – into the underwater night.

Although you’ve seen this reef many times before, this time you drop into a whole new world and watch it come to life under the glow of dive light.

Introduce yourself to the whole new cast of critters that comes out after the sun goes down. See your favourite dive sites from a whole new perspective at night.

Learn about: Night dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and potential problems, how to control your buoyancy at night, entries, exits and underwater navigation at night. You will also learn about nocturnal aquatic life, since many of the plants and animals you'll see are different

Maximize your dive time so you can explore more!

In this course, you learn how to plan dives that extend your bottom time by crediting you for slower nitrogen absorption when you ascend to a shallower depth. That’s the way you really dive, after all.

This is a great way to learn how to make multilevel dives even if you forget to bring your dive computer.

You'll learn what multilevel diving is and why you want to plan for multilevel dives. You'll also get to see the various types of multilevel dive calculators (including dive compuers), as well as learn about multilevel dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques, and potential problems. You'll plan a multilevel dive profile and dive it with your PADI Instructor.

PADI Search & Recovery
Have you ever dropped something in the water? Are you looking for a lost “treasure”? The PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course will teach you effective ways to find objects underwater and bring them to the surface. Small, large or just awkward, there is a way to bring them up.

It’s fun to use a lift bag. Not only are these skills fun, but very practical and ultimately useful because eventually, you’ll lose something in the water. As a Search and Recovery Diver, you’ll know how to search for and recover it.

PADI Equipment Specialist
Don’t miss a dive due to a scuba gear issue. Whether it's a blown o-ring or a regulator problem, you can learn how to manage basic scuba equipment adjustments and regulator servicing in this course.

As a PADI Equipment Specialist, you are prepared for the basic scuba equipment maintenance, care and adjustments you'll encounter every day. In addition, you'll learn interesting background information about how your gear works, how it’s repairer and other information that helps you with your equipment investment.

Learn about routine, recommended care and maintenance procedures, and equipment storage. How to overcome common problems with equipment and recommended professional maintenance procedures (may include a demonstration of repair procedures)
Gain simple suggestions for comfortable equipment configurations and an introduction to new gear (may include optional confined water dive to try new or unfamiliar equipment)