Here's something completely different!

This Environmentally conscious Specialty is absolutely unique for all the following reasons :

•  Totally conservation oriented. There are NO shark dissections and no sharks are harmed in any way.

• The Shark Awareness Diver Course is a Distinctive Specialty Course entirely devised, constructed and written by Peter of 2^nd Breath Scuba.

• It is structured to accommodate both divers and non-divers.

• You get to dive with sharks, if a diver.

• It has been specially designed around the shark species encountered on the South African south-east coast.

•  It is fully PADI approved, having successfully undergone PADI’s legendary stringent Quality Assurance vetting process.

• Upon successful completion of the Course, PADI will award divers full Specialty Certification and will issue a Specialty Personal Identification Card (PIC).

• Non-diver graduates are awarded a PADI Certificate of Participation.

• Certification as a Shark Awareness Diver counts as one of the five PADI Specialty ratings required to become a Master Scuba Diver.

• This Shark Awareness Diver Course is exclusive to 2^nd Breath Scuba and cannot be found anywhere else in the world.

Course goals.

The objectives of the course are:

• To develop your knowledge of, and familiarity with, sharks in general and, in particular, those species which may be encountered locally.

• To replace the myths and misconceptions about sharks as devil fish with an objective and science-based view of sharks in crisis.

• To develop your knowledge of how to interact responsibly and with minimum risk with sharks, with emphasis on how to identify species as well as individual sharks within the same species.

• To equip and encourage you to become a shark conservation ambassador.

Course structure.

Two academic classroom sessions - both divers and non-divers participate.

Two sea dives - only certified divers.

The sharks.

The following Shark species are covered in the Course:

• Spotted Ragged Tooth (Grey Nurse) Shark.

• Tiger Shark.

• Zambezi (Bull) Shark.

• Scalloped, Great and Smooth Hammerhead Sharks.

• Great White Shark.

• Short-finned Mako Shark.

• Copper Shark.

• Blacktip Shark.

• Spinner (Long-nosed Blacktip) Shark.

• Smalltooth, Thintail and Bigeye Thresher Sharks.

• African Angel Shark.

Sign up!

Be the first diver on your block to have a Shark Awareness Diver Certification Card.

It is a fact that most divers will never even see a shark during all their diving careers. This is a chance to encounter and interact with any number of sharks: it is quite normal to see more than 25 individuals on every dive!