SDI Advanced Adventure Diver
SDI ADVANCED ADVENTURE DIVER
If you’ve taken your Open Water Scuba Diver course and are now ready to expand your knowledge but would like to see what is out there first, then the SDI Advanced Adventure Diver course is for you! The SDI Advanced Adventure course will give you an overview of five different SDI 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:
- 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.
*Open Water certified students, this will be a requirement! If you have not logged any dives within 6 months, you will have to come on Friday, July 19th at 5 PM for a refresher class with the instructor and take your gear home to meet at the lake on Saturday.
The cost of the refresher is included with the purchase of the course.
*Rental equipment is available ($150 rental fee) EXCEPT PERSONAL DIVE GEAR (Mask, Snorkel, Boots & Fins) You must have your own!
Availability: Contact us for booking information
Who this course is for:
- Any certified open water scuba diver who wishes to expand their diver knowledge and skill set
- Any certified open water scuba diver who would like to advance in dive training
- Any certified open water scuba diver who would like to experience an introduction to SDI specialties
Course prerequisites:
- SDI Open Water Scuba Diver, SDI Junior Open Water Scuba Diver, or equivalent
- Minimum age 18, 10 with parental consent
*Note: Junior divers (10-15) can only take specialties approved for their age
Limits for Junior Divers:
Deep Diving: Maximum depth for divers 10-15 is 21 metres/70 feet
Dry suit; minimum age 12
Wreck: Limited penetration minimum age 15
What you can expect to learn:
- An overview of the SDI Deep Diver and SDI 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
- Deep Diver open water dive
What’s in it for you?
- An opportunity to experience several SDI, TDI, or ERDI specialties at the sport level
- Continued diver education, skills, and knowledge
- Ability to enroll in/complete selected specialties
- After successful completion, ability to enroll in the SDI Recue Diver Course
SDI Advanced Diver minimum requirements:
- Satisfactorily complete the appropriate SDI Advanced Adventure Diver Knowledge Quests with a passing score of 80%, followed by 100% remediation by the Instructor
- Complete all course requirements efficiently
- Demonstrate mature and sound judgment concerning dive planning and execution
