Course overview

Expand your skills with PADI specialty courses in North Malé Atoll, choosing from options such as deep, wreck, nitrox, navigation, night and buoyancy to suit the atoll's channels, reefs and wrecks. Each specialty pairs focused theory with adventure dives to 18 metres and counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.

What you’ll learn

• Develop focused skills in your chosen specialty area
• Apply techniques on dives across the atoll's varied sites
• Build experience toward the Master Scuba Diver rating
• Dive deeper, longer or in new environments safely
• Gain confidence to tackle North Malé Atoll's channels and walls

Prerequisites

• PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver as a minimum (some specialties require Advanced)
• Minimum age varies by specialty (typically 10-15)
• Completion of a diver medical questionnaire; physician sign-off if required

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
   Choose your specialty

   Select a specialty with your instructor and begin the relevant knowledge development.
2. Day2
   Theory & first dive

   Complete the chosen specialty's knowledge development and make your first training dive.
3. Day3
   Skill dives & certification

   Complete the remaining specialty dives on the atoll's sites and certify.

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