Specialty Courses

Peak Performance Bouyancy Specialty Course

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To take advantage of PADI’s Peak Performance Buoyancy (PPB) program, you’ll need to be a PADI Open Water Diver, Junior Open Water Diver or equivalent and be at least 12 years old.

Your program will include two open water dives, which may be conducted in one day. If you’re a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or Junior) or Advanced Plus (or Junior) and have completed the Advanced Open Water Night elective dive, you may complete these dives at night.

Some of the topics covered in your PPB program are as follows:

1. Peak Performance Buoyancy fundamentals:
Buoyancy check
Fine-tuning buoyancy underwater
Weight position and distribution
Streamlining
Visualization

2. Use of PADI’s Basic Weighting Guidelines.

3. An opportunity to polish buoyancy control beyond the Open Water Diver level:
Positioning and distributing weight for comfort and desired body position (trim in the water).
Visualization techniques prior to dives
Buoyancy checks
Establishing neutral buoyancy during all segments of a dive Fine-tuning neutral
buoyancy underwater
Hovering

The elective Peak Performance Buoyancy Dive conducted during the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or Advanced Plus program may be counted toward this specialty at the instructor’s discretion.

Contact Great Lakes Divecenter, Inc. for more information.