Learn how to glide effortlessly and smoothly around the underwater world, conserving air, and feeling more refreshed after a dive.
Come up close when approaching marine life and have more control over your movements around the coral reefs of Koh Tao.
Fine Tune Your Buoyancy Skills
Fine-tune your scuba diving skills by completing the PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy course.
Included in Peak Performance Buoyancy course
- PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy E-learning manual
- Dive Insurance
- Small Groups (4:1)
- 2-day schedule
- PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy certification
- Full set of Aqualung rental equipment including a Dive Computer for your course
- Official Isla Tortuga Divers T-shirt
- Best Vibes!
What you learn on Peak Performance Buoyancy course
- Expand and refresh your knowledge about buoyancy fundamentals.
- Position and distribute weights for correct body position – trim & Streamline
- Pre & Post dive Buoyancy checks
- Establish, maintain, and adjust neutral buoyancy effortlessly during all segments of a dive.
- Fine-tune neutral buoyancy underwater using breath control
- Hover effortlessly in multiple positions
- Correct propulsion and maneuvering techniques
What is involved in a Peak Performance Buoyancy course?
The course consists of 2 sections:
Knowledge Development
Complete the PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy e-learning manual, completing the knowledge review.
Open Water training
Your open water training dives will be at suitable dive sites around Koh Tao. The selection of the site will depend on a number of factors including weather and our diving schedule.
Peak Performance Buoyancy Training dives 1 & 2
You will meet your specialty instructor prior to the dive boat departing to review your e-learning and review some of the skills you will be expected to master underwater.
If you are already a PADI Advanced Open Water diver and you have already completed Peak Performance Buoyancy training dive 1, we can offer you a fun dive along with Peak Performance Buoyancy Training dive 2 on this dive trip.
During Peak Performance Buoyancy training dive #1, you will learn how to complete a number of buoyancy-related skills. These include:
- Position and distribute weight for comfort and trim underwater
- Streamline equipment
- Buoyancy checks at surface
- Controlled descents and ascents
- Hovering for at least 60 seconds
- Control buoyancy and swim relaxed and neutrally buoyant in a horizontal position making frequent small adjustments to buoyancy as needed
- Adjust weights (trim) and practice hovering in different positions – vertical, horizontal, feet slightly elevated, and head slightly elevated
There are also a number of buoyancy-related skills to master during Peak Performance Buoyancy training dive #2, including:
- Demonstrate efficient fin kicks, using long, slow strokes and gliding after each kick
- Hovering for at least 90 seconds
- Flood and clear your mask whilst maintaining depth in a neutrally buoyant position
- Maneuver as close as possible to a non-living object (rock, sand, etc.) without touching it and then back away using neutral buoyancy and back fin finning or sculling
Upon completion of all the requirements, you will be certified as a PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Diver.
Prerequisites for PADI Peak Performance course
To embark on this exciting adventure and further improve your skills as a diver, there are a series of requirements:
- Open Water Certification: You need to be an Open Water diver and have dived relatively recently. If you need a refresher on your diving skills, we can do that too!
- Be in good health: As for every PADI diving course, you will have to complete a medical questionnaire to ensure that there are no contraindications with diving.
- Minimum age: You have to be 10 years old to be eligible to enroll on a Peak Performance Buoyancy course
What is the Peak Performance Buoyancy course schedule?
The PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy course offers flexibility in terms of schedules.
If you have already completed the Peak Performance Buoyancy Adventure dive as part of your Advanced Diver course, then you only need to complete Peak Performance Buoyancy Training dive #2*
Complete the PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy eLearning ahead of time.
Day 1 – Peak Buoyancy Training dives #1 & #2
- Meet your Diving Instructor to review the e-learning and the afternoon’s training dives
- Complete Peak Performance Buoyancy Dives 1 & 2 on our afternoon boat @12:15*
- Review and log the dive
*Upgrade with an extra fun dive for 800 Baht to make this trip a 2-dive trip
In just 1 day you will have completed the PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy course and we will issue you with the prestigious PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy certification.
Advantages of taking PADI Peak Buoyancy course?
There are lots of advantages for you to complete the PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy course.
More efficient movement underwater: Better buoyancy will allow you to glide through the water more smoothly and efficiently. You will need less fin kicking, meaning you will expend less effort and energy during your dives.
Better control underwater: Precise buoyancy control will allow you to minimize your impact on the underwater environment. As responsible ocean advocates, we should aim for zero disturbance of the marine environment. More control will also allow you to better observe the marine life.
Reduced Injuries: Divers with good buoyancy, who are correctly weighted, streamlined, and diving with good trim are much less likely to accidentally make contact with corals, shipwrecks, or other fragile underwater structures, reducing the risk of injury to themselves and damage to the environment.
Improved Air consumption: Having better control over your buoyancy and expending less energy means you will use less air. This means longer and safer diving!
Increased confidence: Divers who have mastered the art of buoyancy are comfortable, confident, and in control underwater and are much more likely to have an enjoyable and relaxed diving experience.
The Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty is a great course for divers wishing to improve their skills and confidence and become more proficient divers.
Why Choose A PADI 5 Star Dive Center?
PADI dive centers must adhere to the highest training standards and customer service levels in the dive industry.
PADI is the most recognized agency worldwide when it comes to recreational diving courses, with hundreds of agencies around the world; PADI is established in more countries than any other agency.
In short, if you go to a small island in the middle of nowhere and there is a diving school, it is most likely PADI.
PADI is the only training agency whose curriculum is written by educational authors, using tried, tested, and trusted learning philosophies adapted for scuba diving.
The PADI system is performance-based, not time-based.
What this means is you will have to earn your certification, and you can’t buy it!
Please keep in mind that we are going to ask you to do more than other dive centers and agencies. On the bright side, this will mean you will receive a higher quality training course and will be much better prepared as a certified scuba diver.
PADI is the only agency that conducts customer satisfaction surveys to ensure that its professionals are meeting the highest standards of education and safety, while other agencies only ask instructors or schools to manage their own standards.
Choose Isla Tortuga Divers for Peak Buoyancy course
- We limit our class size to a maximum of 4 students per Instructor providing you with a personalized and focused training course.
- Our dive boat MV Attawat is comfortable and spacious, and as we own our own boat it gives us the flexibility to choose the dive sites that best suit you
- The knowledge development portion of the course can be completed using the PADI eLearning program. What this means is once you have completed the registration process and paid your deposit you can get started straight away!
- Completing PADI’s e-learning ahead of time means no classroom on your PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy course!
- We are a PADI 5 Star Instructor Development Center and as such all our instructors are trained in-house by our PADI Course Directors. This allows us to vet every staff member to ensure they are teaching to the very highest standards, providing you with a quality and safe experience ….and of course lots of fun!
- We provide you with a dive computer for all your open water training dives at no extra cost!
- We only teach ‘diving with dive computers’ on all our PADI courses in line with the latest technology and educational principles.
- As an ‘Aqualung Partner Center’ all our diving equipment passes the most rigorous quality and reliability tests.
- Last, but without a doubt the most important reason to complete your PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy course with Isla Tortuga is we guarantee that you will learn to dive with a smile and that you will be left wanting more.
Koh Tao is a great location to go fun diving and explore our range of PADI Specialty courses. With our expert diving instructors, PADI Divemasters, custom dive boat and quality dive equipment, Isla Tortuga Divers can meet the needs of all certified divers.
Contact us for fun dive pricing, our Air Conditioned Rooms or Shared Rooms and our daily dive site schedule.
