Course overview

Fine-tune your control in the water with the PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy specialty at Kovalam, refining trim and weighting on the warm Kovalam reef in the Arabian Sea. You learn to hover effortlessly, streamline your gear and reduce air consumption, protecting the reef and making every dive easier. You finish with the PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy certification.

What you’ll learn

• Achieve precise neutral buoyancy and stable hovering
• Fine-tune weighting and weight placement
• Streamline equipment to reduce drag
• Improve trim and finning efficiency
• Lower air consumption and protect the reef

Prerequisites

• Minimum age 10 (junior) or 15
• PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver or higher
• Comfort with basic open-water skills
• Diver medical questionnaire (physician sign-off if any condition applies)

What's included · What's not

Probability of sightings · month-by-month

What you're likely to see each month, based on historic operator logs.

Day-by-day itinerary

1. Day1
   Buoyancy theory and dives

   Cover weighting and trim, then complete guided buoyancy dives on the Kovalam reef and certify.

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