Specialties
There are many diving activities which need further training than that provided by the initial courses:
- Altitude diving
- Cave diving
- Deep diving
- Drift diving
- Dry suit
- Free-diving also called skin diving
- Ice diving
- Identifying and surveying sea life and freshwater life: see marine biology
- Maritime archeology or Underwater archeology
- Night diving
- Rebreather
- Rescue Diver
- Sidemount
- Snorkeling
- Underwater navigation
- Underwater photography
- Underwater search and recovery
- Underwater videography
- Wreck diving
- Nitrox diving
Many diver training agencies such as ACUC, BSAC, CMAS, IANTD, NAUI, PADI, PDIC, SDI, SSI and YMCA offer training in these areas, as well as opportunities to move into professional instruction, technical diving, commercial diving and others.
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