As a Equipment Specialist, you are prepared for the basic scuba equipment maintenance, care and adjustments you'll encounter every day. In addition, you'll learn interesting background information about how your gear works, how it’s repair and other information that helps you with your equipment investment.

The Fun Part

The more you know about how your dive gear works, the more

• Comfortable you are with it
• Performance you get from it
• You can care for it

What You Learn

• Review the theory, principles and operation of scuba diving equipment
• Learn about routine, recommended care and maintenance procedures, and equipment storage
• How to overcome common problems with equipment and recommended professional maintenance procedures (may include a demonstration of repair procedures)
• Gain simple suggestions for comfortable equipment configurations and an introduction to new gear (may include optional confined water dive to try new or unfamiliar equipment)

To purchase learning materials and equipment, contact TEXAS DIVE CENTER. Let our equipment technicians teach you some common fixes you can make on a dive trip when a problem comes up.

Your Next Adventure

The Equipment Specialist Course is not an equipment repair course, but it provides the foundation you’ll want if you’re interested in learning equipment repair. It is a great knowledge development course with no dives required. It counts toward the specialties needed for your Master Diver rating.

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• Contact us take the Equipment Specialist course.
• Learn more tips about care and maintenance for your scuba gear
• Ask a Scuba Expert
• Learn about the Specialty of the Month
• View the Most Popular Specialty Courses
• Take the Master Scuba Diver Challenge
• Download a scuba medical questionnaire (PDF)

For more information about this or other PADI courses have a chat with one of the TEXAS DIVE CENTER Team members.