New PADI speciality courses?

[Rhone Man]

I was browsing through the website of a British LDS and I noticed that they offered two PADI speciality courses that I had never hear of before:

- Twin set diver
- Full face mask diver

(see: Rec-n-Tec Speciality Courses)

Both struck me as interesting and useful courses, but I was perplexed that I had never heard of them before. There seems to be no references to such courses on the PADI website (see: PADI Courses)

Are these new courses, or are they only available through PADI Europe? Or are they examples of these odd "one off" speciality courses that are self-designed and individually taught under that weird approval system that PADI has (if so, PADI should think about copying them more widely)?

Anyone know?

 

[knotical]

The PADI knows.

 

[Standingbear56]

They could be Distinctive Specialties authored by the instructor and approved by PADI. There are probably thousands of those.
Safe Diving,
George
PADI MSDT

 

[Don Wray]

Distinctive specialties

 

[Rhone Man]

They sound like good ones - PADI should take a long hard look and think about adopting those two into the mainstream curriculum.

 

[Standingbear56]

They sound like good ones - PADI should take a long hard look and think about adopting those two into the mainstream curriculum.

No argument from me. There are a lot of those specialties I would love to see become standards. Don, thank you, my spell checker has been appropriately spanked!
Safe Diving,
George
PADI MSDT