Dive Komodo offers PADI specialty courses. These are a series of dives relating to a specific interest in underwater activity.
PADI AWARE Shark Conservation Specialty
Now is your opportunity to come and see some of the best reefs in the world and immerse yourself into a world bursting with colour and life. In this short introduction to diving you will learn basic dive theory, equipment use and practice some skills needed to complete the dive. The rest of the time is spent diving with an instructor dedicated to keeping you safe and having fun!
Prerequisite: min 10 years age
Duration: 1 day (2 dives)
Maximum depth: 30
Instructor to student ratio: 1:4
Price: IDR 3,000,000
Underwater Photography
Underwater Photography is a captivating and creative challenge. Not only will you learn how to capture some great memories of your holiday, but you’ll vastly improve your buoyancy and learn to dive far more effectively.
Learn about digital photography techniques and their use underwater, without harming the environment you are photographing.
The PADI Digital Underwater Photography Specialty gets you going quickly with today’s modern digital equipment, whether you use a point-and-shoot camera or a sophisticated D-SLR like the professionals.
Course Content
How to choose the right underwater camera system for you
The three primary principles for good underwater photographs
How to manipulate the light to affect the color of your images and some basic editing techniques
How to dive efficiently with a camera and how to ensure that you don’t damage or harm the reef
Hints and tips to improve your techniques and start you on your way to a lifetime of creative achievement.
Prerequisite: Open Water Certification
Duration: 1 day (2 dives)
Maximum depth: As per previous certification
Instructor to student ratio: 1:4
Divers who have mastered their buoyancy are the ones that stand out. You’ve seen them underwater; they glide effortlessly, use less air and ascend, descend or hover, almost as if by thought. They also interact gently with aquatic life and affect their surroundings minimally.
This course is packed with various techniques to dramatically improve your buoyancy, air consumption and general control in all situations. Having great buoyancy means feeling more relaxed and makes any other diving activity far easier to master.
Course content:
How to adjust your scuba gear so you’re perfectly balanced in the water
Nuances in determining weight so you’re not too light nor too heavy
How to streamline to save air and move smoothly
How to hover effortlessly in various positions
Prerequisite: Open Water Certification
Duration: 1 day (2 dives)
Maximum depth: As per previous certification
Instructor to student ratio: 1:4
Price: 3,000,000 IDR
Deep Diver
Ever wondered what lurks in the depths?
It is not only a magical and exhilarating feeling to explore the deep but also opens the possibility for you to dive sites that are only good at depth such as certain shipwrecks around the world.During the courseyou learn to remain safe whilst diving down to 40 metres andby the end of this course you will be certified to dive to this depth.
Course content:
Understand your own reaction to nitrogen narcosis
Learn to dive with and use an independent air source
Practice emergency drills related to deep diving
Learn more about how colour is affected by depth
See how the increased pressure effects various objects and dive equipment
Prerequisite: Advanced Open Water certification
Duration: 2 days (4 dives)
Maximum depth: 40m
Instructor to student ratio: 1:4
Price: 5,000,000 IDR
After the sun sets many dive sites completely change! Moray eels, lion fish, octopus and coral polyps come out to feed whilst many reef fish can be seen sleeping inside the corals. Your torch light will show the true vibrant colour of the reef compared to day diving where colour is lost due to less light the deeper you go.
Learn to dive safely at night including use of dive lights and buddy procedures, and learn about nocturnal aquatic life. This course is only available on our liveaboard trips.
Course Content:
Night dive planning, organisation, procedures, techniques and potential problems.
How to control your buoyancy at night, entries, exits and underwater navigation at night.
Nocturnal aquatic life identification and change of behaviour.
Prerequisite: Open Water Certification
Duration: 3 dives spread over liveaboard trip; min 4 day /3 night trips
Maximum depth: As per previous certification
Instructor to student ratio: 1:4
Price: 2,500,000 IDR on top of liveaboard price
PADI Emergency O2 Provider Specialty
Being the best buddy you can be means to be prepared, especially in an emergency situation.Oxygen does not only help in decompression situations but can also be crucial when treating for heavy bleeding, near drowning/suffocation and shock.
In certain countries this certification is a must to legally be able to give oxygen. The course is strongly recommended for rescue divers and dive professionals.
Course content:
Recognize diving illnesses treatable by emergency oxygen
Properly set up emergency oxygen equipment
Administer emergency oxygen
Prerequisite: none
Duration: 1 day (land based)
Instructor to student ratio: 1:8
Price: 2,500,000 IDR
