Peak Performance Buoyancy

Peak Performance Buoyancy course

$400

About the Course

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. The Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty course improves the buoyancy skills you learned as a new diver and elevates them to the next level.

Learn How to

  • Achieve neutral buoyancy
  • Hover effortlessly
  • Use the right amount of weight

Take This Course If You Want to

  • Improve your buoyancy control
  • Dive with less weight
  • Reduce your air consumption

How to Achieve Neutral Buoyancy

Overview

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.

Prerequisites

  • Minimum age: 10
  • Open Water Diver (or equivalent certification)

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.

Time commitment: 2-4 hours

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.

Time commitment: 1 day

After This Course

The first dive of the Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty course may count toward your Advanced Open Water Diver certification – ask your instructor about earning credit. Each PADI Specialty you complete gets you one step closer to earning the elite Master Scuba Diver rating.

Junior Divers