Koh Tao Diving Information

Scuba Diving Courses on Koh Tao Thailand

Specialty Dives

Become a Certified Specialty Diver

If you wish to continue your diving education and gain more diving experience without becoming and advanced open water or a rescue diver, then the specialty dives are made for you! Whether you are interested in the technical diving specialties such as Nitrox, Deep Diving or riding around on a Diver Propulsion Vehicle (DPV), having the time of your life, or the more standard activities such as Night Diving, Multilevel Training Dives, Naturalist, Underwater Photography or others, you won’t have trouble finding specialty dives that to suit your interests.

Even if you’re not a scuba diver (yet), there are still specialties that may well interest you, such as Project AWARE, Marine Resource Management and Coral Reef Conservation. These specialty programs focus on our responsibilities to our planet and how to protect our oceans.

Possible specialty choices and prerequisites for each (list is non-exhaustive):

Deep Diver Specialty:
4 dives over 2 days
Maximum depth: 40 meters
Prerequisites: Adventure diver or equivalent, 15 years minimum age

Night Diving Specialty:
4 dives over 2 days
Prerequisites: Adventure diver or equivalent, 15 years minimum age

Nitrox Specialty:
2 dives (optional)
Prerequisites: Open Water Diver or equivalent, 15 years minimum age

Photography Specialty:
2 dives over 1 day
Prerequisites: Junior Open Water or equivalent, 10 years minimum age

Navigation Specialty:
3 dives over 1-2 days
Prerequisites: Junior Open Water or equivalent, 10 years minimum age

Naturalist Specialty:
2 dives over 1 day
Prerequisites: Junior Open Water or equivalent, 10 years minimum age