Advanced If you’ve taken your Open Water Scuba Diver course and are now ready to expand your knowledge. The Advanced Open Water course will give you an overview of five different specialties. Two of the required specialties are the Deep Diver and Navigation Diver specialties which are the foundation of continuing diver education. The remaining specialty dives you can opt for include but not limited to.

• Advanced Buoyancy Control
• Altitude Diver
• Boat Diver
• Computer Nitrox Diver
• Drift Diver
• Marine Ecosystem Awareness
• Many more!

This course is intended to introduce you to each of the five specialties selected; not complete comprehension of the chosen specialty. One dive from each of the chosen specialties may apply towards the completion of a specialty certification.

What you can expect to learn:

• An overview of the Deep Diver and Navigation Diver specialties
• Basic insight to three other chosen specialties of your choice as an introduction to that specific area in diving

Some of the in-water skills include:

• Successfully perform skills listed for dive one of the three chosen specialties as well as both core specialties
  • Deep Diver open water dive
    • Test and check all equipment
    • Familiarization with dive site
    • Descend to planned depth, do not exceed any pre-planned limits
    • Dive according to plan at a depth limited to 30 metres/ 100 feet
      Divers between the age of 10 and 15 cannot exceed 21 metres/70 feet
    • Ascend to safety stop
    • Exit and log dive
  • Navigation open water dive
    • Establish a reference point, plan dive, and enter water from shore/boat
    • Practice out and back technique on surface
    • Squares and triangles on surface
    • Perform a square on the bottom
    • Perform a triangle on the bottom
    • Ascend to safety stop
    • Exit and log dive