Courses
Specialty Courses
Boat Diver
This course helps you expand your knowledge about boats from small inflatables to large liveaboards. You'll gain experience scuba diving by completing two dives from a boat.
Peak Performance Buoyancy
Observe aquatic life without disturbing their surroundings. Improve the buoyancy skills you learned as a new diver and elevate them to the next level. Excellent buoyancy control is what defines skille...
Enriched Air / Nitrox
Are you going on vacation and planning multiple dives over several days... then we highly recommend diving Enriched Air / Nitrox!
Equipment Specialist
Learn to manage basic scuba diving equipment repairs and adjustments. Understand routine care and maintenance procedures and how dive gear works.
Digital Underwater Photography
It’s easy and fun to capture images of your underwater scuba adventures.
Master Scuba Diver
Take the... 3rd Reef Master Scuba Diver Challenge and become a Legend!
Underwater Hunter
3rd Reef Divers offers an Exclusive 2-level Underwater Hunter Course!
Emergency First Responder
Discover simple to follow steps for emergency care. This course focuses on building confidence in everyday rescuers and increasing the willingness to respond when faced with a medical emergency. ...
Deep Diver
Explore deeper dive sites with confidence at depths down to 130 ft. Learn to manage your gas supply, go over buddy contact procedures, and buoyancy control.
Dry Suit
Why dive dry - simply to stay warm. No one said diving had to be cold or wet. More often than not, in colder waters, dry suit diving can be the difference between experiencing multiple div...
Night Diver
If you’ve wondered what happens underwater after the sun goes down, enroll in the PADI Night Diver Specialty course.
Search and Recovery
Retrieve lost items that have fallen overboard or over a dock. Learn to effectively plan search patterns and use a lift bag for heavy objects.
Underwater Navigation
Scuba divers can successfully reach their intended mark by integrating natural navigational techniques (environmental observation) and their skill of using instruments like the compass. Imagine ...
Wreck Diver
Ships, airplanes, and even cars are fascinating to explore and usually teem with aquatic life. Each wreck dive offers a chance for a new discovery.
The Original PADI Zombie Apoca...
Congratulations! You have made the possible lifesaving decision to bring your dive training to the next level and become certified to dive and survive in a post-apocalyptic world. In the unlikely and ...
Altitude Diver
Imagine descending below the surface of a clear mountain lake to explore a well-preserved wreck. Interested? Any time you scuba dive at an altitude higher than 1000 feet above sea level, you're al...
Emergency Oxygen Provider
For recreational scuba divers, emergency oxygen is the primary first aid given to individuals suffering from a near drowning, decompression sickness or lung overexpansion injuries. Hav...
Full Face Mask
Diving with a full face mask allows you to breathe from your nose and mouth, and provides added comfort in colder water. The mask can also be fitted with communication gear, which can be useful for va...
DPV - Diver Propulsion Vehicle
DPV Diving: See More, Swim Less, Smile Big.
Drift Diver Specialist
Scuba diving in a current can be both relaxing and exhilarating. You may slowly glide over a reef, or zoom over an underwater landscape so fast it feels like flying. By the end of your drift diver cou...
Delayed Surface Marker Buoy (D...
Boats and currents are two common factors associated with many dive sites. Boaters don't always recognize that divers are in the area and current can carry you further than expected. Launching a d...
Underwater Naturalist
Take the PADI Underwater Naturalist Specialty course and you'll see new things, even on the most familiar scuba diving sites. Why? Because when know more about symbioses, underwater ecology, and a...
Self-Reliant Diver
Retrieve lost items that have fallen overboard or over a dock. Learn to effectively search patterns and use a lift bag for heavy objects.
Project Aware
Project AWARE DIVE AGAINST DE...
Pay the ocean forward by helping clean it up on your next dive. Learn about the problems of marine debris, conducting Dive Against Debris surveys, and how divers are a part of the solution to keeping ...
Project AWARE - Fish Identific...
Retrieve lost items that have fallen overboard or over a dock. Learn to effectively search patterns and use a lift bag for heavy objects.
Project Aware Coral Reef Conse...
This course helps you appreciate the complexity of coral reef habitats and teaches how you can help conserve these vital systems. Anyone who has an interest in the aquatic world can take this course. ...
Project AWARE Shark Conservati...
Sharks are an essential part of a healthy ocean. This course explores why they are vulnerable, the importance of a healthy shark population, managing threats and how to take action to protect them.
