Specialty Certifications
Take your diving to the next level with PADI specialty courses! Learn all about underwater video and photography, learn to explore shipwrecks, or improve your buoyancy control! The options are nearly endless.
The specialty certifications offered here at Huron Scuba include:
Enriched Air Nitrox
Nitrox (oxygen-enriched air) has benefits related to the fact that your body absorbs less nitrogen while diving - the big ones are reduced risk of decompression sickness or extended no-decompression time, especially on multi-day dive trips. However, it also entails risks that must be managed. This course will teach you how to use Nitrox to improve...
Dry Suit Certification
Some of the world's best diving is in waters that are a bit chilly - from the well-preserved shipwrecks of the Great Lakes to the spectacular marine life of the Pacific Northwest. Drysuits make these waters accessible while keeping divers warm and comfortable - even in temperate waters such as the Florida springs! Huron Scuba...
Search & Recovery Specialty
Have you ever dropped something in the water? Are you looking for lost treasure? The PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course will teach you effective ways to find objects underwater and bring them to the surface. You'll learn search and recovery dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and potential problems. You'll also cover limited visibility,...
Underwater Navigator Specialty
When you're underwater, knowing where you are and where you're going comes in handy, especially if you're looking for that beautiful reef that you've heard all about. The PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course will help you become a pro at finding your way underwater. During your PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course, you'll learn underwater navigation...
Wreck Diver Specialty
Learn how to handle the potential hazards of diving around shipwrecks, as well as how to understand what you're seeing underwater. This course is offered in conjunction with our wreck diving trips. This course provides the diver with the skills and knowledge needed to gain experience and minimize risks in wreck diving. Wreck diving (external...
Deep Diver Specialty
Looking For Adventure? Are you ready for the DEEP? Interested in furthering your diving skills? Want to prepare for technical diver courses? This is the course for you! Huron Scuba's PADI Deep Diver Specialty Course is unique, in that it provides you with the knowledge and skills to plan and make deep dives while minimizing...
Underwater Photo & Video
One of the best parts of scuba diving is sharing what you've seen with your friends & family. However, if they've stayed "dry" while you dove, you'll need to bring back photographs or video! Huron Scuba offers three types of Underwater Photography classes plus one Videographer class: PADI Level 1 Digital Underwater Photographer certification: This...
Reef Fish Identification
Have you ever tried to describe what you saw during a dive, only to find yourself at a loss for words? Now, you can learn the names of the most common reef fish in the Caribbean, Florida, and Bahamas, as well as clues to their behavior and interactions. Learn how to speak "fish" for your...
Peak Performance Buoyancy Workshop
Do you find yourself working to maintain neutral buoyancy throughout your dives? Is every ascent a struggle to keep control? Or, are you ready to try underwater photography or video and want to easily maintain position while filming? This course will help you determine your optimum weighting and fine-tune your trim and buoyancy underwater. In...
Night Diver Specialty
When you go night diving you'll see a whole new world. Even your local dive site takes on a new personality at night, as many underwater creatures and plant life (different from those you see during the day) are active at night. You'll learn night dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and potential problems. You'll also...
Equipment Specialist
What happens if your regulator has a minor leak or mild freeflow, or your BCD dump valve has a small leak? Can you fix it and save your dives that day, or do you have to sit and watch everyone else's bubbles until the boat gets back & hope someone knows how to fix it...
Ice Diver
When the lakes freeze over, you can keep on diving! Learn how to safely dive beneath the ice, enjoying greatly improved visibility and interacting with sluggish fish. This PADI Ice Diver course allows you to test the limits of fun, and familiarizes you with the skills, knowledge, planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems, hazards, and EXCITEMENT...
DPV Specialty
While on a dive, have you ever seen another diver zip by using an underwater scooter? Look fun? Using a diver propulsion vehicle isn't only fun its practical too! Imagine costing through kelp forests or using it to see a whole shipwreck that otherwise wouldn't be possible by fining only. In this course you will...