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The Adventures in Diving program offers both the Adventure Diver and Advanced Open Water Diver certifications. Complete any three adventure dives & you can earn your Adventure Diver certification. Complete your Deep Adventure Dive, Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive and three Adventure Dives for a total of five, you can earn your Advanced Open Water Diver certification. You should take Advanced/ Adventure Diver soon after your Open Water Diver course!

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 and your abilities.

Prerequisites

• Any Open Water Diver certification
• Minimum age: 12

Course Summary

This certification includes five Adventure Dives, including Underwater Navigation, Night Dive, Deep Dive, plus two elective dives;

• Underwater Naturalist
• Search and Recovery

Timeframe:

Our course meets first for class orientation, followed by a weekend consisting of 5 ocean dives, including the last 2 dives from our chartered boat. Minimum Open Water Training for Advanced Open Water: 5 dives over two days

 Training Fee: $140 + Boat Fee for Sunday Dive (~$35 to $85 ) - includes C-Card

Next Step?

Advanced Open Water Divers at least 15 years of age can enroll in a Wreck or Deep Diver Specialty courses or continue on to the Rescue Diver course. Each dive can also credit towards the corresponding Specialty Diver certifications.

How do you take a subject like accident prevention and management and turn it into fun? Call it the PADI Rescue Diver Program! This course develops your knowledge and skills so you can effectively perform diver assists and rescues, manage a diving accident and render first-aid.

The program is an important step in expanding your knowledge as a diver. PADI Rescue Diver (or equivalent) is also a prerequisite for all PADI leadership programs.

Prerequisites

• Open Water or Junior Open Water certification.
• Minimum age: 12
• Current CPR and First-Aid certification

Course Summary

Rescue Diver training will prepare you to prevent problems and, if necessary, manage dive emergencies. During your class, pool and open water sessions, you'll 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

Timeframe: You'll meet for 2 class/ pool sessions, followed by 1 full day  of ocean training.

Training Fee: $135 includes C-Card

Next Step?

Your now eligible for the Master Scuba Diver rating once you've completed the specialties. You are also ready for Divemaster once you complete the Advanced Open Water Course.

Master Scuba Diver

This certification denotes that you've reached the highest recreational diver level in 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.

Course Completion Requirements

• PADI Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization)

• PADI Advanced Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization)

• PADI Rescue Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization)

• 50 logged dives

• Five PADI Specialty course certifications

• Minimum age: 15 years old (12 for Junior Master Scuba Diver)

Next Step?

The PADI Master Scuba Diver certification is the highest recreational level of diver education. But, you don't have to stop there! You can continue on to become a PADI Professional. As a Master Scuba Diver you'll be well qualified to begin your training as a PADI Divemaster.

Training Fee: FREE. You only pay PADI for registration!