Course overview

Tailor your diving with PADI specialty courses on Gili Trawangan, choosing from disciplines like Deep, Wreck, Night, Drift, Enriched Air and Peak Performance Buoyancy to match the island's varied sites. Each specialty builds focused skills across the reefs, drifts and deeper slopes of Gili in warm 27-29°C water.

What you’ll learn

• Develop focused skills in a chosen diving discipline
• Apply specialty techniques on relevant Gili sites
• Improve safety, planning and confidence
• Stack specialties toward the Master Scuba Diver rating
• Gain experience across diverse dive conditions

Prerequisites

• PADI Open Water Diver or equivalent (Advanced for some specialties)
• Minimum age varies by specialty (typically 10-15)
• Specialty-specific prerequisites where applicable
• Diver medical clearance where required

What's included · What's not

Not included? Sort the rest of your trip

Flights and accommodation aren’t part of the course price, here’s how to book them around your dates.

Probability of sightings · month-by-month

What you're likely to see each month, based on historic operator logs.

Day-by-day itinerary

1. Day1
   Theory & first specialty dives

   Knowledge development for your chosen specialty, then initial training dives on a suitable Gili site.
2. Day2
   Final dives & certification

   Complete the remaining required dives and earn your PADI specialty certification.

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