Course overview

Tailor your diving with PADI Specialty courses at Khao Lak, choosing the skills that best suit the Similan Islands. From deep and wreck to enriched air and fish identification, each specialty adds focused training and dives on the region's reefs and the Boon Sung wreck, and three specialties plus Rescue Diver lead to the coveted Master Scuba Diver rating.

What you’ll learn

• Develop focused skills in your chosen specialty area
• Apply specialty knowledge on real Andaman dive sites
• Improve buoyancy, planning and safety in that discipline
• Build experience toward the Master Scuba Diver rating
• Use specialised equipment where relevant
• Dive more confidently within the specialty's limits

Prerequisites

• Minimum age varies by specialty (commonly 12–15)
• PADI Open Water Diver (some specialties require Advanced)
• Specialty-specific prerequisites where applicable
• Diver medical clearance signed by a physician

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
   Theory & first dives

   Cover the specialty knowledge sections and complete the first training dive(s) on a suitable local or national-park site.
2. Day2
   Application & certification

   Finish the remaining dives, apply the specialty skills and earn the certification.

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