One of the factors that affects diving is currents. They are usually strong in boat dives. Theses courses teach you how to make a boat dive and dive in currents.

Speciality Courses (Boat Diver and Drift Diver)

One of the factors that affects diving is currents. They are usually strong in boat dives. Theses courses teach you how to make a boat dive and dive in currents.

Open Water Divers or higher, who are at least 10 years old, are eligible to take the Boat Diver course in which they take one lesson and two dives in the sea.

Open Water Divers or higher, who are at least 12 years old, are eligible to take the Drift Diver course in which they take one lesson and two dives in the sea.

Diving in Currents

If you’ve ever been diving in a moderate to strong current, you know that it can be very tiring if you don’t use the appropriate techniques. Diving in currents often requires lines that allow you to pull yourself ahead of the boat at the surface, and descending/ascending along the mooring or anchor line so you don’t get swept away.

Even in your PADI Open Water Diver course you learned that on the bottom, you generally head into the current at the start of your dive so that the flow brings you back to your exit at the end. The stronger the current, the more important it is to use procedures like these because, as you know, fighting a current can lead to overexertion and deplete your air supply rapidly.

Drift Diving Advantages

If you ask an experienced Diveholics Drift Diver about the advantage of drift diving, the first answer you’ll likely get is, “It’s exciting!” Undoubtedly, the thrills and adventures that come with high-charge drift dives provide the primary motivation for doing them, but there are four practical advantages as well.

1- Drift diving saves energy.

2- Drift diving opens the door to diving sites that would be hazardous or impossible due to strong current.

3- Drift diving allows you to see more area than you would swimming.

4- In many types of drift diving, you don’t have to worry about finding a particular exit point