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ADVANCED CLASS
The Advanced class will introduce you to many new specialized
types of diving environments, skills and equipment. Whereas Open Water teaches the core skills to safely look after yourself and
your buddy, Advanced develops and broadens your diving skills around specific types of diving. The advanced course is like a buffet
where many courses are available to try and a chance to expand your appreciation for each type of diving. The materials are presented
as a high level overview and each of the advanced dives will provide you with an initial experience of what the specialty offers.
Prerequisites: Open Water
As Advanced introduces divers to a wide range of new environments there is no experience requirements beyond holding an Open Water
Certification. New divers who have recently completed an open water course are encouraged to begin an advanced class to continue
building their diving skills and knowledge and to experience some of the great kinds of diving and new dive sites that advanced will
introduce you to.
| Advanced Diver Course Content |
Underwater Navigation*
Deep Diving*
Boat Diving
Drift Diving
Drysuit Diving
Wreck Diving
Search & Recovery |
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Night Diving
Diver Propulsion Vehicles
Multilevel & Computer Diving
Peak Performance Buoyancy
Underwater Photography
Altitude Diving |
A navigation dive, deep dive and three additional specialty
dives of your choice are required to earn the Advanced
Diver certification. |
Course Format
The advanced book has a chapter dedicated to each specialty. Course participants must read the selected specialty chapters and complete both the Quick Review questionnaires and knowledge review at the end of every chapter.
The advanced course may be, but does not need to be, finished over a single weekend. We encourage divers to complete the requirements over two or more weekends of diving. We believe that the advanced materials are best learned and absorbed when spaced out so that the pace is less rushed and the dives that much more enjoyable. A diver may complete four or five dives over a weekend that are best suited towards one or two of the specialty areas. The subsequent weekend a different location may offer a more interesting environment to practice the remaining three specialties.
We recommend that all divers learn to dive dry to increase their comfort and extend the dive season. There is additional training, rental fees and a pool session required to learn to dive in a drysuit.
Adventure Diver is a certification for divers who complete any three specialty dives.
Course Scheduling
Roughly forty-five minutes is required to discuss a specialty, which can be covered either before each dive or in advance over two 2-hour sessions.
It is our preference to conduct two evening meetings to cover the material in greater depth, when students are more focused and at a more relaxed pace than is normally possible on a diving day. We will always re-emphasize the key skills and considerations on the dive day both as a refresher and to reinforce what was already covered.
A minimum of one weekend with five dives is necessary to complete the diving requirements but we encourage divers to plan to make more than the minimum number of dives over two weekends and meet the requirements at both a more leisurely and thorough pace.
Advanced students may complete the dives with a Dive Professional on any scheduled dive weekend where the selected sites provide the appropriate environment to meet the specialty requirements. It is not required that all individuals within a class start and finish the advanced course at the same time, especially as participants may elect to pursue different specialties from their classmates.
Sample Dive Sites
As an example of one possible weekend, divers may do all of the dives from a charter boat, in a drysuit, on wrecks where one or more is a deep wreck. This could fulfill 1) Dry 2) Boat 3) Wreck and 4) Deep. Drift dives between shipwrecks may also be possible. Completing the required navigation dive as the fifth dive towards advanced certification would be possible. In this example, however, even though one wreck may lie at 85 feet, which meets the requirements for the deep dive, you may prefer leaving the official deep dive to a subsequent weekend where we dive a wall covered in Indian hieroglyphics. The wall would allow us to reach greater depths than found on the previous wreck diving weekend and perhaps better appreciate the deep diving skills and experience. Near this wall there may be shallower areas than were available around the wrecks and these areas would be ideal as a second dive after a deep dive to practice navigation skills.
After Advanced
Specialties - Each dive completed as part of the advanced course will be counted as the first dive towards meeting the dive requirements for that specialty.
Advanced Specialties - Ice, Deep and Wreck Diver require Advanced as a prerequisite.
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