PADI - Peak Performance Buoyancy
Excellent buoyancy control is what defines skilled scuba divers. You've seen them underwater. They glide effortlessly, use less air and ascend, descend or hover almost as if by thought. They more easily observe aquatic life without disturbing their surroundings.
Course Type: Continuing Education
Booking Information: We offer this specialised course tailored to your needs. Get in contact with us to schedule your booking.
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About The Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialist Course
Scuba Diving and Neutral Buoyancy, Buoyancy control is essential to becoming a confident, relaxed diver. Being perfectly balanced allows you to float effortlessly, use air more efficiently and deftly approach skittish marine life to get a closer look.
What Your Learn
Excellent buoyancy control is what defines skilled scuba divers. You've seen them underwater. They glide effortlessly, use less air and ascend, descend or hover almost as if by thought. They more easily observe aquatic life without disturbing their surroundings. You can achieve this, too. The PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty course improves the buoyancy skills you learned as a new diver and elevates them to the next level.
Take This Course If You Want To
- Improve your buoyancy control
- Dive with less weight
- Reduce your air consumption
Learn How To
- Achieve neutral buoyancy
- Hover effortlessly
- Use the right amount of weight
Next Steps
Study
Step 1 - PADI eLearning
PADI eLearning makes it easy to fit scuba lessons into a busy schedule. Complete the independent study part of your course whenever, wherever it’s convenient for you.
Work at your own pace, online or offline, using a computer or mobile device. Connect with your instructor for inwater training, or whenever you have a question.
- eLearning time commitment: 2-4 hours
At The Uk Diving Academy
Step 2 - With Your Instructor
Determine how much weight you need and where to place trim weights to streamline your body position. During two dives you’ll fine-tune your weighting during buoyancy checks and master neutral buoyancy with inwater practice.
- Prerequisites: PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver (or qualifying entry-level certification)
- Total time commitment: 1-2 days
- Minimum age: 10 years or older
More Information
PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialist Course Prerequisites
- PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver (or qualifying entry-level-certification).
- Minimum age: 10 years or older
Course Medical Requirements
Scuba diving requires a minimum level of health and fitness. Chronic health conditions, certain medications and/or recent surgery may require you to get written approval from a physician before diving.
Avoid disappointment, download and review the Diver Medical form to ensure you won’t need a physician’s approval to dive before enrolling in a scuba course. Instructors, divemasters and dive shop staff are not physicians and should not be asked for medical advice; only medical professionals can give medical clearance to dive.?
If you (or your physician) have questions about medical fitness to dive, contact the experts at Divers Alert Network (DAN).
The Scuba Gear You Will Use During Your Course
We will provide all your core scuba diving equipment during your course including:
- Buoyancy Device
- Regulator
- Scuba Cylinder
- Weight System & Weights
- Scuba Diving Computer
- Scuba Diving Fins
During your course, we will include rental of all of the above core dive gear items only. You will be required to collect your core dive gear prior to the open water training dives from us.
What's Included
- Course Tuition
- PADI eLearning
- Basic Equipment Hire
- Air Fills in the pool. (if required)
- PADI eCertification Card
Additional Costs
- Dive site entry from £15- £25 per day
- Transportation (for you and your equipment) - (we will do our best to arrange lifts if needed)
- Subsequent air fills on open water dives payable directly to site
After This Course
The first dive of the PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty course may count toward your Advanced Open Water Diver certification - contact us today for finds out more about earning credit.
Your PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy certification gets you one step closer to becoming a PADI Master Scuba Diver™. Only two percent of divers ever achieve this elite rating.
