PADI Wreck Diver

The PADI Wreck Diver Speciality course with Borneo Dream in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah is intended as a safe, supervised introduction to wreck diving, with an emphasis on fun and safety.

The purpose of the PADI Wreck Diver Speciality course is to familiarize divers with the skills, knowledge, planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems, hazards and excitement of diving on wrecks. Upon completing the PADI Wreck Diver the student should be able to:

• Demonstrate practical wreck diving knowledge, including recognizing and avoiding potential hazards, and planning procedures that make wreck diving fun.
• Explain the historical value of wrecks, social and legal issues surrounding that value, and describe some of wreck diving’s implications, including the pros and cons of removing artifacts from wrecks.
• Plan and organize dives to safely explore wrecks found within depths and conditions as good as or better than those he has been trained in.
• Identify the hazards of wreck penetration diving and demonstrate the techniques and procedures required to minimize those hazards.

The PADI Wreck Diver course has four (4) ocean wreck dives over 2 days. The minimum age for the PADI Wreck Diver course is 15 years and you must have at least a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or similar qualification.

This course is conducted at the WW2 Usukan Wrecks. Please note we need minimum four (4) divers to run a wreck diving trip.

The pre requisites for participating in this PADI speciality course are as follows:

• Be certified as a PADI Adventure Diver (or be equivalent of a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver).
• Be 15 years of age or older.

The PADI Wreck Diver course is a super way to safely explore our underwater history. If you would like to book a place on a PADI Wreck Diver course with Borneo Dream in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah then please contact the Borneo Dream team.