Advanced Course

The Advanced course more than doubles the number of instructor-supervised dives you made in your beginning certification course. It makes you more confident in your basic skills and more comfortable and relaxed in the water. Equally important, it provides you with an introduction to deeper diving, compass navigation and three other specialties of your choice.
This program generally takes two to three days and five or more dives. With sufficient notice, we can usually offer this course when it’s most convenient for you.
This course is $395 per student. This includes:
- All instruction
- Online coursework with a digital certification card
You are responsible for:
- All personal dive equipment
- Dive site admission or boat fees if choosing the ocean option
- Travel to and from training locations
We have options available for equioment purchases.
- Be at least 10 years old.
- Be a certified Open Water Diver.
- Be able to answer No to all the questions on the medical questionnaire or obtain a physician’s approval for diving.
The Advanced course more than doubles the number of instructor-supervised dives you made in your beginning certification course. It makes you more confident in your basic skills and more comfortable and relaxed in the water.
Equally important, it provides you with an introduction to deeper diving, compass navigation and three other specialties of your choice.
In this course, the skills we cover include:
- Core diving skills review/assessment
- Measure kick cycles for a distance of 30 m/100 ft
- Swim 30 m/100 ft and return within 5m /15 ft of start
- Swim 30 m/100 ft in three directions return within 5 m/15 ft of start
- Plan deep dive using the correct minimum gas reserve
- Simulate an emergency five minute decompression stop
- Make three distinct entries and exits
- Make at least one dive to 20 m/65 ft
- Out and back using natural navigation 100 m/330 ft
- Out and back using compass 30 m/100 ft
- Compass navigate 10 m/35 ft square/rectangle
- Limited visibility dive/flash light use
- Complete beach entry and exit
- Deployment of surface marker buoy (SMB)
Optional dives (not included in course)
- Nitrox dive
- Night dive
- Naturalist dive
- Digital imaging dive
Most importantly, we don’t practice these skills until you finally get them right. We have you repeat them until you can’t do them wrong.
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