Equipment Specialist Course

As a PADI Equipment Specialist, you are prepared for the basic scuba equipment maintenance, care and adjustments you'll encounter every day. In addition, you'll learn interesting background information about how your gear works, how it’s repair and other information that helps you with your equipment investment.

Want to know more about scuba kit and keep your interest during the winter season?
Do you know how to repair broken equipment?
Do you know how to fold a drysuit without causing damage?
Do you hire kit?
Have you just bought some new kit i.e computer, regulator or drysuit?
Do you dive abroad as well as in the UK?

If you have answered yes to any of these questions above, then the Equipment Specialist Course is what you need.

Don’t miss a dive due to a scuba gear issue. Whether it's a blown o-ring, regulator problem, wetsuit tear or a broken fin strap, you can learn how to manage basic scuba equipment adjustments.

The Fun Part

The more you know about how your dive gear works, the more

Comfortable you are with it
Performance you get from it
You can care for it

What You Learn

Review the theory, principles and operation of scuba diving equipment
Learn about routine, recommended care and maintenance procedures, and equipment storage
How to overcome common problems with equipment and recommended professional maintenance procedures (may include a demonstration of repair procedures)
Gain simple suggestions for comfortable equipment configurations and an introduction to new gear (may include optional confined water dive to try new or unfamiliar equipment)

The Scuba Gear You Use

You will have a chance to see and interact with many types of scuba gear, accessories, dive lights, gear bags, flags and floats, dive computers, BCDs, regulators, dive knives, scuba weight systems, photography equipment and more!

Recommended but not required Learning Materials - Picture at bottom

Scuba Equipment: Care and Maintenance Book.

Course consists of

Half day or evening, with time being equally divided between knowledge development and practical training sessions, certification included. It is recommended, but not required, that the student divers be given the opportunity to try out new or unfamiliar equipment items in confined water during this course.

Where can I go from here?

The PADI Equipment Specialist Course is not an equipment repair course, but it provides the foundation you’ll want if you’re interested in learning equipment repair. The Equipment Specialist Course can count towards one of your five Specialty diver certifications for the Master Scuba Diver certification.