If you are a certified scuba diver and have been on several dives, it might be time to consider signing up for a specialty course. Specialty SCUBA courses offer new and exciting ways to dive and experience things you wouldn't be able to with normal dive equipment or traditional dive sites. If you are feeling adventurous, you may want to consider signing up with a local dive outfit to get registered in one of the following courses:

Enriched Air

Enriched air diving is typically the first specialty course that scuba divers sign up for. With enriched air, you dive with nitrox in your tanks which gives you extended no decompression dive time. This means you can stay underwater longer and get back underwater quicker. This is great for long dive trips and people who can't get enough of scuba diving. What you learn in a course like this are techniques for getting more dive time, equipment considerations and managing oxygen exposure. And if you take an underwater camera down with you on the longer dives, just imagine all of the scuba diving images you can capture!

Wreck Diver

If you are looking for a real adventure, wreck diving is ideal for you. Wrecks are fascinating to view on dives because it shows you a glimpse into the past. They also become completely new habitats that teem with underwater life. Some ships are sunk on purpose to provide an artificial reef, while others sunk due to a disaster or mishap. When you take a wreck diving course, you learn how to avoid common hazards, research the history of your favorite wrecks, plan the wreck dives and learn techniques for entering wrecks and dealing with your equipment.

Deep Diving

Deep diving can offer a really cool new experience to your open water dives. You'll get to see new aquatic life that lives further down in the ocean as well as experience a darker, more mysterious environment. Deep dives are typically anywhere from 60 to 130 feet. In the deep diving course you will learn techniques for deep diving, gain experience in the planning and organizing of the course and complete four supervised deep dives.

Night Diving

Night diving is a great way to get a new perspective on places you have been during daylight hours. Suddenly that familiar reef will seem like a whole new world illuminated by the glow of your dive light. You'll also get to see a wide range of sea critters who only come out at night. In a night diving course, you will learn about planning, potential problems, how to control buoyancy at night, how to navigate in the dark and entry and exit strategies.

Dry Suit

Dry suit diving lets you stay warm and dry even in very cool diving conditions. A dry suit completely seals you off from the water, so you can explore challenging dive locations and extend your diving season. The advantage to this is you will get to experience better visibility in colder months, especially in lakes, quarries, caves and sinkholes. With a dry suit course you learn how to control your buoyancy, how to maintain and store your dry suit and familiarization with the new equipment.