Unusual scuba certifications

[scubamarketing]

Here's a pretty decent list: PADI Instructor News: Distinctive Specialties

I teach a few distinctive specialties, but nothing too outlandish. I've taken a few and they've been good, especially the Manta specialty through Jack's Diving Locker on the Big Island of Hawaii.

 

[The Chairman]

Wayne Mitchell used to certify costumed divers... ie Mickey and Minnie Mouse for the Magic Kingdom here in Florida.

 

[nikos81]

Here's a pretty decent list: PADI Instructor News: Distinctive Specialties

I teach a few distinctive specialties, but nothing too outlandish. I've taken a few and they've been good, especially the Manta specialty through Jack's Diving Locker on the Big Island of Hawaii.

haha Lava Tube diver I really want to see how someon would float into lava...

And Underwater Rock Identification Very funny

Anyway,to me it seems a Put Another Dollar In situation...

 

[MarineResearch]

I am going to submit a complaint to PADI over the second one. I believe limiting this specialty to only Polynesians is racist and full of prejudice!

Xenophobic as well. You have to travel to French Polynesia to take the course.

You should also file a complaint on behalf of lobsters worldwide since "California Lobster Hunter" excludes many other tasty species, and also encourages the slaughter of innocent lobsters. I've even seen lobsters confined to underwater concentration camps; caged like animals!!!

 

[Rhone Man]

Best ones I have heard of are:

• Underwater Wedding Specialty
• Zen Diver Specialty
• Helicopter Diver Specialty

None of those are remotely as funny or cool as Lionfish Tamer Specialty.

 

[nikos81]

What about Underwater Model and Spacesuit diver? Or Underwater Game Player?

 

[warmwaterturner]

The SSI snorkel certification cracks me up...... Now that I have Rescue I think I'll go back and pick it up. I can't figure how anyone could actually write multiple chapters on the subject. What is even funnier - you have to get the Dive Guide certification then complete the Snorkel Instructor certification to teach snorkeling......

 

[ScubaSteve]

I am going to submit a complaint to PADI over the second one. I believe limiting this specialty to only Polynesians is racist and full of prejudice!

Damn right. I am too. I just found out I got swindled out of $250 bucks

And finally, to answer last week’s poll question, the distinctive specialty that ISN’T real is:

Underwater Rock Identification

Yes, I made that one up. Sounds pretty good though, eh?

 

[knfmn]

Here's a pretty decent list: PADI Instructor News: Distinctive Specialties

I teach a few distinctive specialties, but nothing too outlandish. I've taken a few and they've been good, especially the Manta specialty through Jack's Diving Locker on the Big Island of Hawaii.

What a fantastic list! I'd love to see the course materials for some of them! I definitely want my underwater helicopter pilot cert card!

EDIT: Especially since I just googled it. This outfit takes you out and lets you dive off a helicopter. Too cool! Helicopter

Kristopher

 

[mselenaous]

The manatee specialty always makes me go ... mainly because you don't scuba dive with manatees ... they don't like the bubbles, so you snorkel with them.

How can you have a diving specialty that doesn't involve diving?

... local environments are going to have some influence on the types of specialties people might want to take, and it's in both the agency's and the diver's best interest to allow some means to "tailor" a specialty class to what the environment has to offer ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

I once dove with a Norwegian fellow with a Fjord Diver card. He explained that diving in those areas is tricky and demanding due to extreme currents and tides in deep cold water and unpredictable visability.