PADI Fish ID Specialty

PADI Fish ID Specialty course “What was that fish?” is a common question heard after a dive. If you want to be able to answer that question the Fish Identification Specialty course will help you with the answer.  You’ll enjoy your dives even more when you recognize the creatures that you see and can identify the main fish families and their characteristics.

 

 

 

 

Once you learn to recognize the different fish families by the shape and their characteristics you’ll find it easier to reference the exact species after a scuba dive. For example, a butterfly fish in Southeast Asia has a similar shape to a butterfly fish in the Caribbean, but a few things may change such as colors and markings. Knowing the different fish families shapes makes it easier to look up the local name or at least be able to ask the your scuba Divemaster what you saw.

Description

On two scuba dives, you’ll learn:

• How to identify characteristics of local fish families and species.
• Fish survey techniques and strategies.
• About Project AWARE activities that can help protect aquatic life

Academic

The PADI Fish ID specialty course comes with PADI elearning so you can self study the knowledge side of the course, there are 2 knowledge reviews to be completed. Once the knowledge has been completed the in-water training duration is 1 day (2 dives)

Equipment

All you need for this course is normal full set of equipment or we provide the rental equipment which includes a rental dive equipment and is all included in the course price. We will also take underwater slates and fish identification slates on the dive.

Getting Started

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Ever thought which course you need to do to become a PADI Pro