PADI Equipment Specialist

Course Overview

This course is designed to familiarise divers with the operation and maintenance of scuba equipment. In this course, you will acquire basic knowledge in the following areas:

• Routine, recommended care and maintenance procedures and storage of buoyancy compensators, tank valves, wet suits and regulators
• Equipment theory, principles and operation of diving equipment
• Troubleshooting minor problems in the field with regulators, tank valves, buoyancy compensators, and wet suits
• Hydro-Static Test and Visual Tank Inspection procedures
• New equipment

Qualification

Students receive a PADI Equipment Specialty Certification.

This course is not designed to teach professional equipment repair of regulators and other dive equipment. Servicing life support equipment is only allowed by factory trained professionals who represents the manufacturer and repair equipment on a regular basis.

Course Structure

The course is conducted over two nights. The first is devoted to an in-depth look at regulator operation and troubleshooting, and the second to hydro, VIP, and Visual Plus processes, buoyancy compensators, exposure suits and tank valves.