Underwater Video Diver Specialty
Bring your underwater adventures to life! Learn essential underwater videography techniques, camera settings, lighting, composition, and buoyancy control to capture smooth, colorful, and engaging underwater videos while protecting the marine environment.
Why Stuart Scuba? Small groups, personalized instruction! With a maximum of 4 divers per instructor, Stuart Scuba provides focused, hands-on training with experienced dive professionals to help you develop your underwater videography skills safely and confidently.
Capture the motion. Share the adventure. Bring your dives to life with Stuart Scuba!
Availability: Contact us for booking information
Course Description
Don’t just remember your dives—relive them! Stuart Scuba’s SDI Underwater Video Diver Specialty teaches you the skills and techniques needed to capture high-quality underwater video. Through practical, instructor-led training, you’ll learn camera operation, underwater lighting, video composition, camera movement, and filming techniques while maintaining excellent buoyancy and environmental awareness. Whether you’re using an action camera, compact underwater camera, or advanced video system, this course will help you transform your underwater experiences into memorable videos worth sharing.
Price: $245.00 per diver
Prerequisites
- Minimum age 18, 10 with parental consent
- Certification: SDI Open Water Scuba Diver or equivalent
- Minimum logged dives: No additional logged dives required
- Completed SDI paperwork and medical questionnaire
Duration
- Approximately 1 day, including:
- SDI knowledge development and instructor review
- 2 open-water training dives
What’s Included
- SDI specialty eLearning
- Professional instructor-led training
- SDI digital certification upon successful completion
- 2 instructor-led open-water training dives
- Tanks and weights
Not Included
- Personal mask, snorkel, fins, and boots
- Equipment: BCD, regulator, dive computer, and wetsuit
- Underwater video camera and accessories unless specifically included
- Surface Market Buoy (SMB), Reel/Spool
- Boat fees unless specifically included
- Transportation and personal expenses
What You’ll Learn
- Underwater video camera operation and settings
- Understanding underwater lighting, color loss, and white balance
- Video composition, framing, and storytelling
- Smooth camera movement and stable filming techniques
- Using natural light and underwater video lights
- Buoyancy control and safe camera handling
- Responsible marine life filming and environmental awareness
- Basic video editing and post-production techniques
Certification
Complete the required knowledge development, practical skills, and 2 open-water boat dives to earn your SDI Underwater Video Diver Specialty certification, meeting current SDI standards.
