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Advanced Open Water
Continuing the adventure is one of the best moves you can make! By going beyond the Open Water Diver certification, you can:
- learn additional skills specific to your interests
- be more confident in and around the water
- continue to develop your dive skills
- better understand the aquatic world
- dive where only divers with advanced training can
The Advanced Open Water course includes a variety of five different types of diving experiences. After your five dives you'll be more experienced, feel more comfortable in the water and simply enjoy diving more because you better understand the underwater environment.
Advanced Open Water
Rescue Diver
The Rescue Diver course will expand your knowledge and experience beyond the purely recreational level because you'll learn to look beyond yourself and consider the safety and well being of other divers. Although this course is serious, it is an enjoyable way to build your confidence.
Rescue Diver training will prepare you to prevent problems and, if necessary, manage dive emergencies. During the open water sessions we will cover
- self-rescue and diver stress
- dive first aid
- emergency management and equipment
- swimming and non-swimming assists
- panicked diver response
- underwater problems
- missing diver procedures
- surfacing the unconscious diver
- in water artificial respiration
- egress (exits)
- first aid procedures for pressure related accidents
- dive accident scenarios
Wreck Diver
The lure of exploring sunken shipwrecks, vessels, airplanes and automobiles is something most divers can't resist. The wreck Diver specialty course introduces you to wreck diving and helps you develop the skills and knowledge necessary for safe and fun wreck diving.
During the course we will cover:
- planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards of wreck diving
- the preparation and use of lights, air supplies, special equipment, penetration lines and reels
- limited-visibility diving techniques and emergency procedures
Deep Diver
The Deep Diver specialty course offers you the opportunity of a lifetime - going deep to see things others can only dream about. You'll learn deep dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and hazards. You'll put this knowledge to the test as you go on four open water dives that range from 60-100 feet.
Equipment Specialist
Whether it's a regulator problem, a wet suit tear or a broken mask strap, the Equipment Specialist course can help. This specialty course prepares you for the basic equipment maintenance, care and adjustments you'll encounter every day. During the course you'll familiarize yourself with the operation and maintenance of your personal equipment. Your instructor might also provide the opportunity to review new or unfamiliar dive equipment. The course is not an equipment repair program but it does give you:
- theory, principles and operation of dive equipment
- routine recommended care and maintenance procedures
- common problems with equipment and recommended professional maintenance procedures
- simple suggestions for comfortable equipment configurations and an introduction to new equipment
Night Diver
When you go night diving you'll see a whole new world. Even our local dive site takes on a new personality at night, as many underwater creatures and plant life (different from those you see during the day) are active at night.
You'll learn night dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and potential problems. You'll also learn how to control your buoyancy, navigate and communicate at night. Since many of the plants and animals you'll see are different, you'll also get an introduction to nocturnal aquatic life.
Search and Recovery
Have you ever dropped something in the water? Are you looking for lost treasure? The Search and Recovery Diver specalty course will teach you effective ways to find objects underwater and bring them to the surface. You'll learn search and recovery dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and potential problems. You'll also cover limited visibility, search patterns and safe object recovery using lift devices.
Underwater Navigator
When you're underwater, knowing where you are and where you're going comes in handy, especially if you're looking for that awesome shipwreck or beautiful reef that you've heard all about. The Underwater Navigator specialty course will help you become a pro at finding your way underwater.
During your Underwater Navigator course, you'll learn underwater navigation dive procedures, techniques, planning, organization and potential problems. You'll also be introduced to natural navigation, underwater patterns, distance estimation and further your compass navigation skills, You'll put these into practice during your three open water dives.
Ice Diver
Looking for extreme diving? You've found it. The Ice Diver certification allows you to test the limits of fun. You'll learn ice diving planning, organization, techniques and potential problems as well as site selection, preparation, special equipment and safety diver procedures. You'll then put this all into practice when you ice dive within the light zone - within 130 feet total distance from the surface, including vertical and horizontal. This is a fun course, usually held the 2nd weekend in February. Available only to Advanced Open Water certified divers.
Boat Diver
Through the Boat Diver course, you can learn the techniques and procedures for diving from different types of boats. You'll learn about:
- boat diving planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards
- prober boat diving etiquette, including equipment storage and conduct
- common boat terminology
- specific and local boat diving laws and ordinances
- overview of emergency and safety equipment needed on dive boats
Peak Performance Buoyancy
If you want to fine-tune your buoyancy and soar over reefs, extend bottom time by reducing air consumption and prolong the life of your dive equipment, the Peak Performance Buoyancy course is for you. During this course you'll use basic weighting guidelines to determine the correct amount of weight. then you'll practice the fundamentals of peak performance buoyancy during two open water dives, including buoyancy check, fine-tuning buoyancy underwater, weight positioning for trim, streamlining and visualization.
Master Scuba Diver
This certification denotes that you've reached the highest recreational diver level n the PADI system of diver education. PADI Master Scuba Diver indicates you have a significant amount of training and experience in a variety of dive environments. To qualify you will need to have your open water, advanced open water and rescue diver certification, 50 logged dives and 5 PADI specialty course certifications.
Divemaster Certification
Imagine a job where you actually look forward to heading off to work in the morning. Lead a life others fantasize about. Sailing into incredible sunsets could be the rule, not the exception, especially if you work in a tropical dive destination. The commute to work could be as easy as a ten-minute boat ride. Work now becomes an adventure in itself. While experiencing new cultures and lifestyles, you'll be surrounded by people who are always happy. When you take people diving all day - everyone's happy. It's not all fun and games in paradise, but the rewards are well worth the effort.
If you set your sights close to home and aspire to work at a local dive center, you teach people how to dive and guide trips to exotic dive destinations. There's a sense of pride sharing something you are passionate about. You help others enrich their own lives by experiencing the adventure of diving.
Take the first step in your dive career and become a PADI Divemaster. Working closely with an instructor, you'll expand your dive knowledge and hone your skills as you become a dive professional. Divemaster training develops your leadership abilities by training you to supervise dive activities and assist instructors with student divers.
As a divemaster you can:
- work at local dive centers, on live-aboard dive boats, yachts and at exotic resort locations
- assist instructors with students
- lead scuba divers on guided dive tours
- teach and certify skin divers
- teach discover snorkeling programs
- conduct scuba review programs for certified divers
- lead certified divers on discover local diving experiences
You will need to be advance open water certified, have your rescue diver certification medical clearance signed by a physician, 20 logged dives and be 18 years old
The course includes learning dive leadership through classroom and independent study sessions. Water skills and stamina exercises in confined and open water. Training exercises to test organizational problem solving abilities, and an internship or series of practical training exercises.
Assistant Instructor
The PADI Assistant Instructor course is the first portion of the PADI Instructor Development Course (IDC). You'll not only gain additional experience as a PADI professional but you'll also start learning the PADI system of diver education.
As a PADI Assistant Instructor you can:
- teach academic presentations under the indirect supervision of a PADI instructor
- evaluate open water diver surface skills under the indirect supervision of a PADI instructor
- teach PADI peak performance buoyancy specialty course
- teach project AWARE specialty courses
- conduct PADI discover SCUBA experiences
You must be PADI Divemaster rating or qualifying certification from another certification agency, at least 18 years old and have logged 60 dives including night, deep and navigation dives. As part of the course you will aquire knowledge development through self-study, quizzes, lectures and presentations. Confined water skill review and assessment, workshops and presentations. Open water workshops, rescue assessment and candidate presentation.
