Advanced Scuba Diver – Ready to take your Open Water certification to the next level? Specialty training takes you beyond the basic skills and prepares you to dive in a variety of situations and conditions, increasing your confidence and making you a more comfortable and safer diver. New skills such as navigation, deep diving, or night diving broaden your diving experience, increase your appreciation for the underwater world, and are a whole lot of fun!
Let your underwater adventure continue! Apply your scuba skills as you explore new dive sites and activities under the supervision and training of your Instructor. Learn which diving specialties interest you, and what type of diving you enjoy most. Gain more confidence and capability. Begin to consider the direction diving will take you, as you go for everything it has to offer.
The Advanced Scuba Diver course is an enjoyable certification course for 12-year-old (or older) certified divers who desire additional training. As part of your certification, you will complete a minimum of six open water dives including three separate dives for navigation, night or low visibility diving and deep diving (130 feet/40 meters maximum depth), plus three different dives. Some of the many different dives you can do include:
- Search and recovery
- Boat diving
- Light salvage
- Hunting and collecting
- Exploration and underwater mapping
- Wreck diving (non-penetration)
- Observation and data collection
- Diving in surf or currents
- Altitude diving
- Fresh water diving
- Shore diving
- Diving for photos or video
- Using dive computers
