Preserving and protecting the oceans of our planet is one of the goals that the PADI Organization has taken upon herself. To achieve this goal, PADI is working on educating the scuba divers on playing a good role on that by offering three speciality courses in here project aware including:
- The project aware speciality.
- The aware shark conservation speciality.
- The dive against debris speciality.
PADI has designed these courses to be focused on Fostering a sustainability mindset in every scuba diver, which in turn helps to increase the number of ocean stewards worldwide. In this article, you will know up to six reasons to encourage you to involve and take the Dive against debris speciality.
Reasons to Take the Dive Against Debris Speciality Course
If you are one of scuba divers who keen on ocean conservation, Here you are 6 reasons to take the Dive against speciality course from PADI:
- Making the most of your unique skills.
- How much the ocean needs you.
- Learning new things.
- Can be used towards other diving certifications.
- Being part of a global movement.
- Â It is fun.

Making the Most of Your Unique Skills
As scuba divers, we have a unique set of scuba diving skills that make us like superheroes, so you can make sense of that by putting these skills to good use and help the ocean in cleaning up its debris.
How Much the Ocean Needs You

Reports indicate that about 250 million tons of plastic or more will make its way into the Planet’s Oceans by 2025. By taking the dive against debris speciality course, you will stand alongside a community of scuba divers fighting back against this huge onslaught of trash.
Learning New Things
As a scuba diver, you should always search for several ways to learn more. With the Dive against specialty course you will not only benefit the environment but you will also:
- Learn new skills about how to remove the debris safely.
- Â Get a chance to make your buoyancy perfect while removing these debrisÂ
- How to sort the debris correctlyÂ
- Record and dispose of the marine debris in the right way.

Can be Used Towards Other Diving Certifications
In the Dive against debris course, you will have one open water dive which you can regard as an adventure toward the advanced open water diver certification. You can also use the Dive against debris speciality course with other courses to earn the rating of the master scuba diver.
Being Part of a Global Movement
In March of the year of 2018, the project aware celebrated removing about one million pieces of trash from our Ocean. This is achieved thanks to scuba divers like you. Now, with this course, you can join an army of award activists scuba divers who are seeking for the next million.
It is a Fun
At the end of the day, scuba diving is really about excitement and enjoyment. The dive against debris speciality course is considered a chance to make new friends and enjoy learning about protecting the ocean together and making great adventures. Just think about what you can find there, we hear several stories about scuba divers who uncovered strange set of trash that can be stories to share with friends.


