Digital Underwater Photography Course

This is a 1 day course with one of our photography specialists who will take you through the basics of underwater photography and develop your abilities until you are taking some great shots. Once back on dry land we will sit with you and teach you how to edit your pictures to get the best out of them. This course is the most popular of all of the specialties and will allow you to take home your memories to show your friends and families.

• 2 dives in the sea
• A review and editing session
• Minimum age 10 Years

Deep Diver Specialty

This is a 2 day course with 4 dives outside the reef on some of our best spots. If you are an Advanced Open water diver who wants to extend there depth and learn about what is happening to their body, then this is the course for you.

• 4 dives in the sea
• Some short theory
• Minimum age 15 Years
• Minimum prerequisite qualification Adventure Diver.

Drift Diver Specialty

Learn how to fly across the ocean whilst seeing the best dive sites and the most amount of marine life. This is a great way to learn to conserve your air and energy whilst covering more of the reef. Learn how to use marker buoys to perform safe dives and the techniques for streamlining your body.

• 2 dives in the sea
• Some short theory
• Minimum age 12 Years

Peak Performance Buoyancy

Do you struggle with your buoyancy or have bad air consumption? If yes this is a great course that will help you improve in both aspects. We will work with you in shallow water to make your buoyancy more pressure susceptible. By learning in shallow waters with beautiful fish and corals, you will also develop better buoyancy than at deeper sites.

• 2 dives in the sea
• Some short theory
• Minimum age 10 years

AWARE Fish Identification

How many times have you come up from a dive and asked the dive guide “what was that fish?” This if your chance to learn the different fish and different families of fish. With over 6000 species in the waters off of Zanzibar this is one of the best places to learn this. One of our Instructors will spend time with you both underwater and on the surface developing your knowledge.

• 2 dives in the sea
• Some theory and review
• Minimum age 10 years

Project AWARE

This is a course set up by PADI’s charity that look after and conserve the reefs. We look into how you can help dives centres and the world in your own small way to protect one of the Earth’s most important eco-systems.

• 2 dives in the sea
• Some theory and observations
• Minimum age 10 years

Other Specialties offered at Rising Sun Dive Centre

Navigation, Search and Recovery, Coral Reef Conservation, Equipment Specialist, Oxygen provider, Boat diver, Multi-level Diver, Night Diver, National Geographic Diver, Underwater Naturalist. Please contact us for further details on all these courses.