Advanced Diving Courses

If you are already a certified diver and are looking to expand your knowledge and take the next step in your diving adventure, there are many options to continue learning.

These are some of the advanced diving courses available to you:

• Advanced Adventurer
• Enriched Air Nitrox
• Deep Diving
• Perfect Buoyancy
• Navigation
• Emergency Training (React Right & Rescue)
• Ecology Programs

Let’s dive into the details!

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Advanced Adventurer

This program allows you to experience five different open water dives from five SSI Specialty programs without requiring you to complete the entire Specialty.

You’ll be able to choose 5 dives from a wide range of dives/adventures to complete your Advanced Adventurer course. These are some of the most popular adventures:

• Deep Diving
• Shipwreck Dive
• Night Dive
• Perfect Buoyancy
• Navigation
• Waves, Tides and Currents
• Fish Id

Facts & Requirements

• Minimum age: 12
• Certification Prerequisites: Open Water Diver
• Academic Sessions: Class with your Instructor
• Water Training: up to 5 Open Water Dives
• Total Program Length: 2 Days
• Max. Depth: 30 meters / 98 feet

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Enriched Air Nitrox Specialty

The SSI Enriched Air Nitrox Specialty program will teach you how to safely plan and dive with enriched air mixtures of up to 40% oxygen.

Diving with enriched air brings a lot of benefits, such us:

• Increase your no-decompression limits
• Increase your safety
• Reduce the required length of your surface intervals

This is specially useful for diving trips and liveaboards, where most of the time companies include Nitrox tanks for free.

Facts & Requirements

• Minimum age: 10
• Certification Prerequisites: Open Water Diver
• Academic Sessions: Class + Online learning
• Water Training: optional
• Total Program Length: 1 or 2 Days

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Deep Diving Specialty

Many exciting dive sites are located in deeper water. The SSI Deep Diving Specialty will give you the ability to safely and comfortably plan and conduct dives beyond 18 meters.

After completing this Specialy course, you’ll be able to dive down to 40 meteres / 130 feet, the maximum depth allowed for recrational diving.

Facts & Requirements

• Minimum age: 15
• Certification Prerequisites: Open Water Diver
• Academic Sessions: 1
• Water Training: 3 Open Water Dives
• Max. Training Depth: 40 meters / 130 feet
• Total Program Length: 2 Days

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Perfect Buoyancy Specialty

The SSI Perfect Buoyancy program teaches you the skills and techniques needed to maximize your dive experience, increase your comfort in the water, and get the most from your equipment.

During this program you will learn how to:

• Increase your buoyancy control
• Minimize your breathing gas consumption
• Move effortlessly above the ocean floor

Facts & Requirements

• Minimum age: 10
• Certification Prerequisites: Open Water Diver
• Academic Sessions: Class + Online learning
• Water Training: 1 Pool/Confinded Session + Optional Open Water Dives
• Max. Training Depth: Optional
• Total Program Length: 1 or 2 Days

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Navigation Specialty

This program provides the skills and concepts required to safely and comfortably navigate underwater during a dive. You will learn how to use a compass and natural navigation techniques, estimate distance, basic navigation patterns and how to leave and return to a designated point.

Facts & Requirements

• Minimum age: 10
• Certification Prerequisites: Open Water Diver
• Academic Sessions: Class + Online learning
• Water Training: 2 Open Water Dives
• Max. Training Depth: Optional
• Total Program Length: 1 or 2 Days

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Emergency Training: React Right & Rescue

React Right

React Right is SSI’s emergency training program, consisting of the following basic components:

• Primary Assessment
• First Aid & CPR Skills
• Primary Stabilization Techniques

Includes two optional components:

• Oxygen Administration in Diving Emergencies
• Automated External Defibrilation Basics

During this course you will learn how to deal with emergency situations, diving or not diving related. In only 1 day you will get the knowledge and training to react properly on emergencies, what to do, whant not to do, and the right order of steps you need to take to deal with the situation in a safe and efficient way.

Facts & Requirements

• Minimum age: 12
• Certification Prerequisites: None
• Academic Sessions: Class + Online learning
• Water Training: None
• Total Program Length: 1 Day

Diver Stress & Rescue

Stress is a major cause of diving accidents and negatively impacts rescue situations.

The SSI Diver Stress & Rescue course teaches you the skills and knowledge required to:

• Recognize and deal with stress
• Prevent accidents
• Properly deal with emergency situations encountered by divers

After completing this training, you will be ready to act in real life situations, you will gain confidence underwater, and you will be a safer and better diver.

Facts & Requirements

• Minimum age: 12
• Certification Prerequisites: Open Water Diver + React Right
• Academic Sessions: 2
• Water Training: 2 Pool / Confined Session + 3 Open Water Dives
• Max. Training Depth: 30 meteres / 100 feet
• Total Program Length: 2 Days