PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Instructor Guide

Description

This guide speaks to you, the PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty Instructor. The guide contains four sections – the first contains standards specific to this course, the second contains knowledge development presentations, the third considers an optional confined water dive and the fourth details the open water dives.

The Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty Diver course philosophy is to polish a diver's buoyancy control beyond the Open Water Diver level to be more efficient – saving air and energy – and help the diver avoid damage to the aquatic environment.

The goals of the training are to:

• Expand and refresh divers’ knowledge about buoyancy fundamentals
• Have divers position and distribute weight for comfort and desired body position (trim) in the water
• Have divers practice visualization techniques prior to dives
• Review the importance of and have divers practice buoyancy checks
• Have divers establish neutral buoyancy during all segments of a dive
• Have divers fi ne-tune neutral buoyancy underwater and hover effortlessly