Advanced and Specialty Diving Courses

Upcoming Scuba Courses

Up your dive site skills and train with us in 2024.

Course dates available here.

Advanced and Specialty Diving Courses

Extend your dive limits with the Deep Diver course
Extend your dive limits with the Deep Diver course

Advanced and Specialty Diving Courses, as well as the PADI Rescue Diver Courses are found here.

PADI Advanced and Specialty Diving Courses and Foundational Skill Development Classes are  the perfect way to gain
more experience and streamline your learning as you begin focusing more on specific subject areas complete some amazing dives
or even just mentally prepare yourself through classroom based theory modules under the supervision of one of our Instructors,
while the PADI Rescue Diver Course is the bare minimum level of certification that ALL Divers should achieve.

You can focus on the same style and type of dive training or choose to completing a sampling of different dives in a range of
different diving environments or “experience dives” such as what many divers engage in during their Advanced Open Water course where divers
complete a series of dives in different environments.

This is where you want to be if you’re interested in completing your PADI Advanced Open Water Course,
PADI Rescue Diver Course, Specialty Diver training and much more.

Sign up for 5 PADI Specialties and receive Your
PADI Advanced Open Water Certification FREE!

Challenge yourself with a Wreck Diver specialty course
Challenge yourself with a
Wreck Diver Specialty Course

Specialty Diving Courses

Part of our Advanced and Specialty Diving Courses involve getting involved in dive training that allows divers to “specialize” on a particular set of skills or diving environments relevant to their “subject” area of the course, such as the PADI Drysuit Diver Specialty Course, Solo Diver, Deep Diver, Wreck Diver, Underwater Photography, Equipment Specialist, Enriched Air Nitrox and a ton of other great courses!  You can even combine a Specialty Course with your Advanced Open Water Class.

Sign up for 5 PADI Specialties and receive Your
PADI Advanced Open Water Certification FREE!

Our Advanced and Specialty Courses are designed to give divers a good exposure to their specialized environment within recreational training limits.

If overhead environment training, cave diving, wreck penetration, or technical diving courses interest you, we offer the most extensive array of the countries most challenging and rewarding technical diving classes taught by Canada’s most experienced and accomplished diving instructors.

Immerse yourself in total diving comfort year round regardless of depth or Temp. Take the Drysuit Specialty Course
Immerse yourself in total diving comfort year round regardless of depth or Temp. Take the Drysuit Specialty Course

For divers who are looking for the absolute highest challenge in diving without walking down the leadership trail, technical diving specialties give you the greatest degree of information are designed to provide more detailed training than specialty diver courses and result in more extensive qualifications.

Dan’s offers specialty dive courses from PADINAUI TechnicalSDI and TDI and more.

Our Cancellation Policy: You may reschedule your class within a 2 week time period. No shows or last minute cancellations will be subject to rescheduling fee. If you can’t do the class, you may transfer your class fees to someone else who can.

Dive Course Calendar

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PADI Open Water Scuba Course Saturdays Winter 2024

PADI Open Water Scuba Course Winter 2024 Join us and Discover the underwater world with your PADI Open Water Scuba Course!  Have fun and learn to dive right with Dan's Dive Shop, Canada's Oldest and Most Respected Scuba Diving School. Taket your PADI Open Water Scuba Course confined water sessions and classroom covered over two […]

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PADI Drysuit Course Spring 2024

Take the PADI Drysuit Course and enter a world of warm, comfortable diving. Drysuit Divers are happy divers! No more freezing on the bottom, or missing dives because you're cold. A drysuit seals you off from the water and keeps you dry, warm and comfortable, even in surprisingly cold water. In a drysuit you can wear […]

PADI Open Water Diver Course Fridays May 2024

PADI Open Water Diver Course Friday Nights May 2024 Join us and Discover the underwater world with your PADI Open Water Diver Course this May. Have fun and learn to dive right with Dan's Dive Shop, Canada's Oldest, Most Respected Scuba Diving School. Learn how to Scuba Dive!  Why not make this year awesome and […]

TDI Advanced Nitrox Decompression Procedures Course

TDI Advanced Nitrox Decompression Procedures Course Join us for your TDI Advanced Nitrox Decompression Procedures Course and see how much more exciting it is when to be diving deeper, longer on bigger and better dive sites! When it comces to technical diving, deep diving isn’t just setting a dive computer, seeing deco and calling yourself […]

Emergency First Response Course 2024

The Emergency First Response Course: Primary Care (CPR) and Secondary Care (First Aid) The Emergency First Response Course begins your preparedness in how to respond to medical emergencies. Statistics show you are more likely to give first aid to someone you know than a stranger. When minutes count, you’ll be the person to give the […]

PADI Drysuit Course Spring 2024

Take the PADI Drysuit Course and enter a world of warm, comfortable diving. Drysuit Divers are happy divers! No more freezing on the bottom, or missing dives because you're cold. A drysuit seals you off from the water and keeps you dry, warm and comfortable, even in surprisingly cold water. In a drysuit you can wear […]

PADI Instructor Development Course 2024

Become a PADI Instructor at Canada’s Oldest PADI Dive Shop This 2024, Dan’s Dive Shop is hosting a PADI IDC right here in Niagara. You don’t need to travel or spend multiple weekends driving to Toronto for the course. The PADI IDC is being held here at Dan’s Dive Shop and will run over consecutive […]

PADI Self Reliant Diver Course – Solo Diver

PADI Self Reliant Diver Course - Solo Diver Our PADI Self Reliant Diver Course - Solo Diver can help you from experiencing sheer terror on a dive boat. Have you ever walked onto a dive boat and cringed seeing a bunch of divers putting their gear on every way but the correct way? Have you […]

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PADI Rescue Diver Course

PADI Rescue Diver Course 2024 Join us for what many of our students call their most favourite PADI Scuba Course, the PADI Rescue Diver Course.  Let us take you through the most exciting core PADI scuba diving course and help prepare you better mentally, physically and emotionally for what can be some of the most serious, rewarding […]

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PADI Advanced Open Water Course 2024

PADI Advanced Open Water Course 2024 Our PADI Advanced Open Water course is the most thorough and progressive PADI Advanced Open Water Course available in the dive industry. The PADI […]

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PADI Advanced Open Water Course 2024

PADI Advanced Open Water Course 2024 Our PADI Advanced Open Water course is the most thorough and progressive PADI Advanced Open Water Course available in the dive industry. The PADI […]

NAUI Trimix Course

NAUI Trimix Course Our NAUI Trimix Course builds on the foundation skills and on the dive experiences of your previous technical courses, but with the addition of learning how to dive […]

Things to Consider

– Not all dive courses are created equal.

– A perceived “too good to be true” priced scuba course often is and there are hidden costs that price it well above ours, while the quality is well below ours.

– As Canada’s Oldest PADI Dive Center we have pretty much seen it all over the last 40 years as we have paved our own way in diver education offering diving education that is a cut above the rest.  We offer all PADI Courses,  from Open Water to Advanced Open Water courses, Rescue Diver, Divemaster, Master Scuba Diver Courses, PADI Assistant Instructor, Drysuit courses, Dive Speciality Courses,  and much more – all taught well above the minimum agency standards.

Why We’re Different – Do Your Homework

We know diving, but find out what others are learning from us. Check out our Testimonials Page.

Learn more about the Dan’s Difference in dive training.

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Check out our Photos and watch our Videos to see our divers in action….You could be featured in there yourself once you’re certified like many of our divers are.

Whether you are a new diver or a seasoned diver looking for more challenges or control in your diving, we offer the best dive training from the most experienced and accomplished scuba divers in the country, while offering you the best selection and pricing on scuba diving equipment from all the best scuba diving brands, local diving trips, exotic dive travel, weekly local dives and more.

Want More Challenges?

transition into technical and cave diving courses

For divers wanting more of a challenge DDS specializes in Cave and Technical Diving Courses offering the most in depth technical diving programs in the country including Intro to Tech,  Decompression Procedures, Trimix, Cavern and Cave Diver Level 1 & 2, Wreck External Survey and Wreck Penetration, Ice Diving, Technical Wreck Penetration, Rebreather Courses, Deep Diving, Mixed gas diving, Specialty Diver Courses all of which keep the adventure of scuba diving thriving.