Advanced Training
UPCOMING ADVANCED TRAINING DATES
This course can be taken after completing the Open Water Diver certification. It's titled Advanced Open Water Diver because it advances your diving knowledge & skills.
The course helps you build confidence in navigation, fine-tune buoyancy skills and introduces you to different diving activities such as wreck diving, night diving or underwater imaging. After completing your eLearning, you'll make five Adventure Dives: a deep dive (beyond 18m/60F), a navigation dive, and three additional Adventure Dives of your choice to earn your certification.
Prerequisites
12 years of age or older
Open Water Diver/Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification)
Learn to prevent and manage problems in the water, and become more confident in your skills as a diver. It's challenging, yet very rewarding.
The Rescue Diver course teaches you techniques to avoid and manage problems and improve your confidence as a diver. During the course you'll become a better buddy by enhancing your ability to identify potential problems and by practicing dive emergency protocol.
Prerequisites
12 years of age or older
Adventure Diver/Junior Adventure Diver (or qualifying certification) with completed Underwater Navigation Dive; EFR Primary and Secondary Care training (or qualifying training) within 24 months
The most popular specialty course. Scuba diving with enriched air nitrox gives you more no decompression time, especially on repetitive scuba dives.
Enriched Air, also known as “nitrox”, is a form of breathing gas that allows divers to extend bottom time and reduce nitrogen loading. It is the most popular specialty course. Enriched Air Diver Online can be completed in as little as an afternoon. After completing your online learning you'll apply the knowledge you've learned by practicing procedures for obtaining and analyzing enriched air with your Instructor. You also have the option of completing two open water enriched air dives.
Prerequisites
12 years of age or older
Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification)
Becoming a dry suit diver allows you to expand your boundaries and dive more places, more often. This suit seals you off from the water and keeps you comfortable, even in surprisingly cold water.
Want to stay warm? Want to extend your scuba diving season? Then dive dry. A dry suit seals you off from the water and keeps you comfortable, even in surprisingly cold water. There is incredible diving in the world's cooler regions and in some areas, conditions are even better in colder months. Becoming a dry suit diver allows you to expand your boundaries and dive more places, more often.
Prerequisites
10 years of age or older
(Junior) Open Water Diver (or qualifying entry-level certification)
The most popular diving specialties course. It's easy and fun to capture images of your underwater scuba adventures.
This specialty course helps you easily achieve great photo and video results. During this course you will learn how to choose the right underwater camera system for you, Principles for good composition of underwater images, and practical techniques to take great photos with your digital camera.
Prerequisites
10 years of age or older
(Junior) Open Water Diver (or qualifying entry-level certification)
Ships, airplanes and even cars are fascinating to explore and usually teem with aquatic life. Each wreck dive offers a chance for a new discovery.
Whether purpose-sunk as an artificial reef for scuba divers, or lost as the result of an accident, wrecks are fascinating windows to the past. Ships, airplanes and even cars are fascinating to explore and usually teem with aquatic life. Each wreck dive offers a chance for discovery, potentially unlocking a mystery or spying something others have missed.
Prerequisites
15 years of age or older
Adventure Diver (or qualifying certification)
Join the best of the best, the elite group of respected divers who have earned this rating through both significant experience and scuba training.
Join the best of the best in recreational scuba diving and live the dive life as a Master Scuba Diver. The Master Scuba Diver rating places you in an elite group of respected divers who have earned this rating through both significant experience and scuba training. Fewer than two percent of divers ever achieve this rating. When you flash your Master Scuba Diver card, people know that you've spent time underwater in a variety of environments and had your share of dive adventures.
Prerequisites
The path starts with earning a Open Water Diver certification, followed by Advanced Open Water Diver and Rescue Diver (or qualifying certifications). You also need to earn five Specialty Diver certifications and have logged a minimum of 50 dives.