PADI Search and Recovery
Challenge yourself, create adventure and experience the thrill of search and recovery diving. The PADI Search and Recovery Specialty course will show you first-hand how to find and recover objects from depth safely and ensure you know how to find the treasure and get it to the surface!
Gathering information and resources, then carefully planning a search are the first important steps you learn. During four scuba dives you’ll practice swimming search patterns using your compass and natural navigation and locating large and small objects using various search patterns. you’ll also use a lift bag for large or heavy objects, plus other recovery methods and plan a search operation based on facts gathered about a lost object prior to the dive.
Duration: 2 days
Number of dives: 4
Pre-requisites
- Certified as a PADI Adventure Diver (or have a qualifying certification from another training organization similar to that of a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver.)
- 12 years of age or older.
Also check out our Advanced Open Water Course as the first dive of this Specialty can be credited to this course.
What you get
- The PADI Search and Recovery Manual
- Underwater compass rental
- Full equipment rental
- Highly qualified and professional scuba instructors and staff
- Academics can be completed while sunbathing in Sihanoukville or sight-seeing in Phnom Penh
- PADI certification
On the boat
- Overnight stay or day trip, plus all the snorkelling you can handle
- Dormitory sleeping with mattresses, sheets and blankets if overnight
- All meals, full breakfasts, lunches, hot dinner and non-alcoholic drinks, fruit and snacks
- Two deck boat - Sun deck plus shaded lower deck
- Onboard Washrooms, fresh water showers and western toilet
Price
- Advancing your PADI diving skills is a learning experience you aren't quick to forget. Doing it in Cambodia will ensure you have an amazing dive without giving up any measure of safety, professionalism, quality of instruction or diving locations.
- Cost: Please add US$150 to day trip or overnight trip price.