The specialties offered at Saphir Plongée
Dive on oxygen enriched air up to 40% oxygen, with the Nitrox course, longer than on air, minimizing the risk of decompression sickness, one of the most popular courses! Useful when you do several dives per day!
This course can be integrated at the same time as the Open Water Diver course (minimum prerequisite)
--> from 12 years old
Will teach you how to properly manage your buoyancy and ventilation in order to save your air and protect the seabed by avoiding touching it. Fun and playful exercises that are useful in the daily life of any good diver! Accessible from the Open Water course
Learn how to choose the right underwater camera for you. The PADI SEA (Capture, Review, Adjust) method for getting great shots fast. Principles for getting good underwater image composition. Practical techniques for taking great photos with your digital camera
Diving isn't just for summer! Learn how to use a drysuit to stay dry and warm underwater, even in winter! This way you can dive all year round while staying comfortable!
Get your drysuit on the equipment page!
Devenez un pro de l'orientation avec le cours underwater navigator ! Apprenez à observer votre environnement et à vous servir d'un compas pour retrouvez votre chemin, ou chercher un endroit précis, comme une épave par exemple ou un sec particulier.
Discover night diving, a completely different way of diving, a different fauna and flora to discover, see species that only come out at night, a completely different atmosphere, by the light of diving lamps!
--> from 12 years old
Experience depths up to 40 meters and explore different aquatic life or even reach a wreck at the bottom. Learn how to plan your dive well while staying within the no decompression limits.
--> from 15 years old
Possible gateway to the PE40 with decompression management, to be seen with your monitor.
Learn the different techniques for finding an object lost at the bottom of the water, tying sea knots and bringing it back to the surface, using lifting parachutes...
--> from 12 years old
Learn the techniques to assess the specific features, history and evaluate the potential hazards of wreck diving, before going inside and visiting mythical wrecks in complete safety!
Many wrecks on the Var to discover!
--> from 15 years old
Important note : Specialty courses for which the teaching materials - manual or eLearning - are not available in French can be taught directly by your instructor in French with another powerpoint support (original padi content) by videoconference or face-to-face, for the same price displayed below.
The other specialties
There are two other specialties that do not require diving in a natural environment: the AWARE courses,
focused on the protection of the environment, underwater flora and fauna,
in relation to the project aware association:
- project Aware
- Aware Coral Reef conservation (conservation of coral reefs).
Advanced Oxygen First Aid - Oxygen therapy (non-diving specialty)
Excellent complement to the rescue diver and EFR course, learn in more detail the effects of oxygen on our body, the various existing equipment and the right actions to administer oxygen to a diver in distress and save his life!
Many other specialties to discover at Padi among the 22 on offer.
We can certify you only for the ones presented above, Indeed, the instructor must be an instructor of the specialty concerned to be able to teach it.
Each specialty is the subject of an individual distinctive permanent certification and grants you a specialty card that you can present at your Padi resort center.
This is particularly important with certain specialties such as nitrox, deep diving or wreck diving for example, where your qualification is verified to access the site, this for your own safety.
Important reminder : the adventure dives of the adventure diver / advanced course give you a credit for the first dive of the specialty concerned:
example: an advanced certified diver only has three out of 4 dives to complete for the deep diver specialty, because the deep adventure diving, which is one of the mandatory dives to complete the advanced course, gives you a credit for this specialty; the same as for the underwater navigator dive.
The reverse is also true, if a certified open water diver performs and completes the underwater navigator specialty for example, the adventure diving of the advanced course is validated and there are only 4 adventure dives left to complete to be qualified as advanced open water diver.
This is applicable to most specialties. Contact your instructor for more details.
