The Navigation course consists of three open water training dives and includes the following:

• the planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards of underwater navigation.

• methods of estimating distances underwater.

• natural navigation techniques.

• using underwater patterns.

• dive site relocation techniques.

• compass navigation techniques.

The last dive is a treasure-hunt dive where we will lay out a course with markers at different locations. Each marker contains the reference to get to the next marker, and the last marker contains the treasure.

The Deep Diving course consists of four open water training dives and includes the following:

• planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards of deep diving

• risk factors and decompression-tables review

• safety stops and emergency decompression procedures

• special equipment, descent lines and buoyancy-control considerations

• procedures for flying after diving and high-altitude diving

• orientation to recompression chambers

We conduct the dives at normal dive sites and we include sites where there are some special things to see, eg a school of patrolling black tip reef sharks, or deep ledges with strong currents.

The Wreck Diving course consists of four open water training dives and includes the following:

• the planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards of wreck diving

• the preparation and use of lights, air supplies, special equipment, penetration lines and reels

• limited-visibility diving techniques and emergency procedures

At Bunaken, the dives will be conducted on our local ship wreck which is a 65m cargo ship that sunk over 50 years ago. The dives include mapping the wreck, doing a night dive on the wreck and doing a penetration dive of the wreck. This is also a great option in Lembeh as there are some wrecks that are similar size and larger.

The Night Diving course consists of three open water training dives and includes the following:

• the planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards of night diving

• proper procedures for buoyancy control, navigation and communication

• use of dive lights and buddy-system techniques

• disorientation and emergency procedures

• orientation to nocturnal aquatic life

The dives are conducted at three different dive sites so that you will get experience of three types of environments - walls, reef slopes and sandy slopes.

The Search and Recovery Diving course consists of four open water training dives and includes the following:

• the planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems, and hazards of search and recovery diving

• limited-visibility diving and underwater navigation techniques

• proper techniques and safety considerations for object location, including the use of various search patterns, lines and reels

• proper techniques and safety considerations for recovery of objects using various lifting devices

During the dives, we will recover one of our boat engines using lifting bags, and move/re-position one of our diving bouys.

The Digital Underwater Photography course consists of two open water training dives and includes the following:

• basic digital underwater photography

• more advanced digital underwater photography and techniques

• a workshop that includes use of computers for downloading, backing-up, sorting etc of digital images

We will be taking underwater photo's of marine life as well as divers, and the workshop will result in a computer slideshow to the rest of our guests at dinner-time.

The Underwater Naturalist course consists of two open water training dives and includes the following:

• the planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards of diving in different aquatic environments.

• a basic overview of major aquatic life groupings (kingdoms and phyla).

• factual information that dispels myths of potentially dangerous aquatic life.

• an overview of basic aquatic life interactions and associations.

• responsible human interactions with aquatic life.

• diving technique used to help preserve bottom dwelling aquatic life and minimize aquatic life disturbance.

Bunaken Marine Park is considered to have the greatest marine diversity in the world and is therefore a great place to do this course. However, this is a great course in Lembeh as you will not see some of the underwater critters any where else in the world.

The Peak Performance Bouyancy course consists of two open water training dives and includes the following:

• Peak Performance Buoyancy fundamentals: buoyancy check, fine-tuning buoyancy underwater, weight position and distribution, streamlining, and visualization.

• use of PADI’s “Basic Weighting Guidelines.”

• an opportunity to polish buoyancy control beyond the Open Water Diver level -
  • positioning and distributing weight for comfort and desired body position (trim in the water)
  • visualization techniques prior to dives
  • buoyancy checks
  • establishing neutral buoyancy during all segments of a dive
  • fine-tuning neutral buoyancy underwater
  • hovering

We make this a bit more fun by setting up an underwater obstacle course for you to practice the above techniques, and we will guarantee that the course will dramatically improve your time underwater.

The Enriched Air course consists of two open water training dives, two practical applications and some thoery. On the course you will be:

• Planning and making no decompression dives using primarily enriched air nitrox blends containing 22 to 40 percent oxygen, remaining within accepted dive table and oxygen exposure limits.

• Obtaining and caring for equipment used in enriched air diving.

• Analyzing enriched air nitrox, confirming cylinder markings and setting enriched air dive computers (if available).

• Going through the process of obtaining enriched air from a blending facility, and getting a direct overview of how operations blend enriched air nitrox.

• Managing and avoiding possible enriched air hazards.

• Using and applying the benefits of enriched air for recreational diving.