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PADI Specialty Diver

There is a huge bunch of PADI Specialty Diver courses, which are marked in above flowchart in dark blue. However it is helpful and supports you to gain experience when participating in PADI Specialty Diver courses on your way to become a PADI scuba professional, these courses are not mandatory to become a PADI pro.

You can see the necessary courses you need to participate before entering in a specific PADI Specialty Diver course in above flowchart. In the following overview we have also shown this and added the minimum age for participation and the number of open water dives during the specific PADI Specialty Diver course:

Specialty Diver course	Minimum prerequisite	Minimum age	Water- Training*)
Adaptive Support Diver	OWD	15 years	1 (+1)
Adaptive Techniques	DM	18 years	2 (+2)
Altitude Diver	OWD	10 years	2
AWARE - Dive Against Debris®	-	-	-
AWARE - Shark Conservation Diver	OWD	12 years	2
Boat Diver	OWD	10 years	2
Cavern Diver	AOWD	18 years	4
Coral Reef Conservation	-	-	-
Deep Diver	AD	15 years	4
Delayed Surface Marker Buoy (DSMB) Diver	OWD	12 years	2
Digital Underwater Photographer	OWD	10 years	1 oder 2
Diver Propulsion Vehicle Diver	OWD	12 years	2
Drift Diver	OWD	12 years	2
Dry Suit Diver	OWD	10 years	2 (+1)
Enriched Air Diver (Nitrox)	OWD	12 years	2 1)
Emergency Oxygen Provider	-	-	-
Equipment Specialist	SD	10 years	-
Fish Identification Diver	OWD	10 years	2
Full Face Mask Diver	OWD	12 years	2 (+1)
Ice Diver	AOWD	18 years	3
Night Diver	OWD	12 years	3
Peak Performance Buoyancy	OWD	10 years	2
Project AWARE Specialist	-	-	-
Public Safety Diver™	AOWD	18 years	4
Search & Recovery Diver	AOWD 2)	12 years	4
Self-Reliant Diver	AOWD 2)	15 years	3
Semiclosed Rebreather Diver (Dolphin/Atlantis)	AOWD 3) + EAN	15 years	3
Sidemount Diver	OWD	15 years	3
Underwater Naturalist	OWD	10 years	2
Underwater Navigator	OWD	10 years	3
Underwater Photographer	OWD	10 years	2
Underwater Videographer	OWD	10 years	3
Wreck Diver	AD	15 years	3
Fluss- & Strömungstaucher (River & Drift Diver)	OWD	12 years	3

Abbreviations and explanations

OWD: Open Water Diver		DM: Divemaster
AOWD: Advanced Open Water Diver		*): in parantheses confined-water dives
SD: Scuba Diver		1): open water dives optional
AD: Adventure Diver		2): or OWD + Underwater Navigator
EAN: Enriched Air Diver		3): or OWD + 10 logged open water dives

As the number of PADI Specialty Diver courses vary, the presentation in below flow chart is not 100% up-to-date. The listing above shows the status from 2019.

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Information regarding a course, requirements, prerequisites and similar things you receive by clicking on the relevant course in above flowchart.

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