PADI Drift Diver Specialty Course

The north-east side of one of Bali's eastern island called Nusa Penida has some great dive sites for Drift Diving. The water flowing in and out of the Indian ocean by the tides through the Lombok strait make this a place for dayly driftdiving. Dive sites like Sekolah Dasar, Ped and Sampalan are great to fly by the reef during a drift.

Although the current here in Bali can be sometimes strong, BIDP plans the times of diving at these sites with help of tide predictions and experience of many years. Our experienced boat crew will read the conditions of the sea and currents, and when it's not an appropriate condition to dive at that moment, we will move to another site with better circumstances.

When you like the feeling of flying past the reef without getting tired by alot of finning, this PADI Drift Diver Specialty Scuba Course is a helpful expansion of your diving skills and knowledge.

Course Overview

This Specialty dive course covers the knowledge and techniques of Drift Diving. Time will be equally be divided between knowledge development and actual water training sessions.

PADI Drift Diver Specialty course consist of a theoretical part that will be conducted in our airconditioned classroom in Sanur. The practical (skill development) part of this course will bring you to the island of Nusa Penida with BIDP's speedboat. Two dives will be done here and can be conducted in one day from BIDP's dive boat. After finishing the training dives, students are required to log these dives in their personal log books.

Contained in this course are the following:

  1. Planning, organisation, procedures, techniques. Problems and hazards during drift diving;
  2. The use of special equipment like floats, lines and reels;
  3. Procedures for proper buoyancy control, underwater navigation and communication;
  4. Dive site selection, overview of aquatic currents and the causes and effects;
  5. Techniques for staying close to a buddy or together as a group.

Prerequisites

  • Participating divers needs to be certified as a PADI Open Water Diver or PADI Junior Open Water Diver (or comparable certification from another dive training organisation);
  • Have minimum age of 14 years;
  • Evaluate and sign the PADI medical statement.

A Drift Dive from the PADI Adventures in Diving program may be counted towards the certification requirments for this specialty course.

This Course Includes

  • Lunch and Drinking water
  • All equipment hire
  • Air fills (free Nitrox available for EANx certified divers)
  • PADI dive insurance during the diving days
  • Transfers before, during and after the diving from and to you accommodation
  • Free Copy of BIDP's "Bali Ocean" Scuba Diving DVD (with underwater video of Bali's dive sites)

Duration Of The Course

  • Recommended duration is 12 hours
  • 2 dives

 

"When U Forgot Your Fins.." - PADI Drift Diver Specialty

 

  

 

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BALI INTERNATIONAL DIVING PROFESSIONALS
JL. Danau Poso No. 26 Sanur 80228, Bali
Tel : +62 (0) 361 270 759 / Fax : +62 (0) 361 270 760 / Email: bidp@scubadivebali.com
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