Can PADI Specialty Course Dives Be Combined?

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Also, I would add that combining kind of takes away the good deal. I just took AOW, and price consideration was a bit like this: I will get 4 dives that would have costed me 140 bucks. So if I pay 250 I get AOW Card (not really interested except for taking rescue), and at the same time I am getting 4 dives, so I am actually only paying an extra hundred to spend 2 (it ended up being 3 because of both our schedules) days with the instructor diving, chatting and sharing a bit of know how. If you look at specialties, courses and such as dives, which most of them (except Nitrox and Eq Specialist) are, then I think you have a winner. You get to spend time underwater with a knowledgeable person for a bit more of what the dives would cost just doing them. Under this light, it doesn´t make much sense to combine dives to try and get credits. Then you are just card grabbing. Use the dives. I am planning on taking Deep and Nav just because I had a great time spending time underwater with someone that can give me pointers. Where I live there is NO diving at all (Mexico City), and it´s not like I can find a mentor to dive with regularily. So courses become a nice way of getting someone helping me out, and I will gladly do it during a vacation. Diving is diving, and I understand even learning, you can enjoy it.
 
The OP asked about combining specialities on single dives. The answer as many people have stated is no.

However there is one situation where a specialty can be combined with another course. It is possible to conduct one of a number of Specialty diver courses concurrent with the Open Water Diver course. We do it all the time with Dry Suit. All the skills from dry suit 1 are integrated into the appropriate OW dives 1 to 4. The student then does a 5th dive which is dry suit 2. The student earns OW and the Dry Suit specialty.

There are a half dozen or so Specialties that can be combined with OW.
 
Also, I would add that combining kind of takes away the good deal. I just took AOW, and price consideration was a bit like this: I will get 4 dives that would have costed me 140 bucks. So if I pay 250 I get AOW Card (not really interested except for taking rescue), and at the same time I am getting 4 dives, so I am actually only paying an extra hundred to spend 2 (it ended up being 3 because of both our schedules) days with the instructor diving, chatting and sharing a bit of know how. If you look at specialties, courses and such as dives, which most of them (except Nitrox and Eq Specialist) are, then I think you have a winner. You get to spend time underwater with a knowledgeable person for a bit more of what the dives would cost just doing them. Under this light, it doesn´t make much sense to combine dives to try and get credits. Then you are just card grabbing. Use the dives. I am planning on taking Deep and Nav just because I had a great time spending time underwater with someone that can give me pointers. Where I live there is NO diving at all (Mexico City), and it´s not like I can find a mentor to dive with regularily. So courses become a nice way of getting someone helping me out, and I will gladly do it during a vacation. Diving is diving, and I understand even learning, you can enjoy it.

Go for it. I did the same thing when I first got to some tropical water and for the same reasons. (I followed it up with lots of specialty courses in my home cold water.)
 

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