• Dive from boats ranging from small inflatables to giant live-aboards:
  • how they differ from place to place
  • gain experience and training from diving on boats in your local area
• Safely enter and exit the water:
  • sometimes it’s better to hand your gear up to the crew and then climb in the boat
  • sometimes you just take off your fins and weights and walk up the ladder
• Stow your gear in the most appropriate area
• Use surface lines to initiate or conclude your dives
• Locate basic boat safety equipment

• Night dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and potential problems
• How to control your buoyancy at night
• Entries, exits and underwater navigation at night
• Nocturnal aquatic life, since many of the plants and animals you’ll see are different
• Use of dive lights and buddy-system techniques

Not only will you learn valuable information and gain great experience as a diver, you’ll also become part of the bigger movement to protect the oceans and keep them clean for sea life and divers alike.

Educating you about the marine debris issue. You will learn what damage has already been done, where ocean trash comes from and how you can be an active part of the solution.

Equipping you with the knowledge and skills needed to conduct a Dive Against Debris survey. You will learn how to create a survey dive profile, understand the best use of photography and make effective decisions on what to remove and what to leave behind.

Highlighting the five steps needed to record and report findings from a Dive Against Debris dive: weigh, sort, record, dispose and report.

Explaining how to join the global Project AWARE movement of scuba divers protecting our ocean planet.

• The Project AWARE philosophy about protecting worldwide aquatic ecosystems
• Fish family groupings and common characteristics of fish species found in the local scuba Philippines region
• Fish surveying techniques and strategies for collecting valid data.

• Planning, organization, procedures, problems and hazards of deep diving;
• Risk factors and decompression-tables review;
• Safety stops and emergency decompression procedures;
• Special equipment, descent lines and buoyancy-control considerations;
• Procedures for flying after diving and high-altitude diving;
• Orientation to recompression chambers.

• The planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards of diving in different aquatic environments
• Factual information that dispels myths of potentially dangerous aquatic life
• An overview of basic aquatic life interactions and associations
• Diving technique used to help preserve bottom dwelling aquatic life and minimize aquatic life disturbance.

• Techniques for getting more dive time by using enriched air nitrox
• Enriched air scuba diving equipment considerations
• Enriched air considerations, including managing oxygen exposure, how to tell what’s in your scuba tank and how to set your dive computer

• Greater appreciation for one of the planet`s oldest creatures.
• An understanding of what actions you can personally take to protect sharks.
• The knowledge to become an ambassador for sharks, able to influence those around you.
• New insight into shark behavior.
• Introduce sharks including their conservation status and why they are vulnerable to impacts.
• Introduce the major threats that are greatly reducing shark populations.

• Safety considerations for navigating and exploring wrecks.
• Surveying and mapping a wreck.
• Using penetration lines and reels to guide exploration.
• Techniques to avoid kicking up silt or disturbing the wreck and its inhabitants.

• Receive an introduction to drift diving equipment – floats, lines and reels.
• Get an overview of aquatic currents – causes and effects.
• Practice with buoyancy control, navigation and communication during two drift dives.
• Learn techniques for staying close to a buddy or together as a group as you float with the current.

• How to choose the right underwater camera system for you
• The PADI SEA method for getting great shots quickly
• The three primary principles for good underwater photos

• Navigation patterns
• Natural navigation (without a compass)
• Compass navigation
• How to “mark” or relocate a submerged object or position from the surface
• Underwater map making
• How to follow irregular courses with the Nav-Finder
• Dive site relocation
• How to estimate distance underwater

• How to trim your scuba gear so you’re perfectly balanced in the water
• Nuances in determining weight so you’re not too light nor too heavy by even a slight degree
• How to streamline to save air and move smoothly through the water
• How to hover effortlessly in both a vertical position and a horizontal position

• How coral reefs function
• Why they are so important
• Why many reefs are in serious trouble
• What you can do to prevent further decline

• Properly assemble and configure sidemount scuba diving equipment.
• Trim your weight system and sidemount gear so you’re perfectly balanced in the water.
• Manage gas by switching second stages as planned, if wearing two cylinders.
• Respond correctly to potential problems when sidemount diving.

• Assembling and disassembling emergency oxygen equipment.
• Deploying a non-rebreather mask and a demand inhalator valve on a breathing diver.
• Using a pocket mask on a nonbreathing diver.