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Level 2

Advanced Adventure

You’ve completed your Open Water Course, had lots of fun and you’re ready to take your adventure to the next level. Expand your knowledge and add on to your skill sets, take the SDI Advance Adventure Course to explore more of the deep blue sea.

  • Advanced Buoyancy Control
  • Boat Diver
  • Computer Nitrox Diver
  • Drift Diver
  • Marine Ecosystem Awareness
  • Night/limited visibility Dive

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.

Course prerequisites

  • Minimum age 18, 15 with parental consent
  • SDI Open Water Scuba Diver or equivalent, SDI Junior Open Water Scuba Diver or equivalent
  • Float/Treading water for 10min

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

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
  • 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

What can i do as a SDI Advanced Adventure Diver:

  • An opportunity to experience several SDI specialties
  • Continue diver education, skills, and knowledge
  • Ability to enroll in and complete selected specialties
  • After successful completion, ability to enroll in the SDI Recue Diver course

SDI Advanced Adventure 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

Ready to start Advanced Adventure?

Tell us when you are free and we will find you a date.

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