Advanced Adventure Diver

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Exploration, Excitement, Experiences.  
That is what the Academy of Scuba’s Advanced Adventure Diver course is all about. If you are Open Water Diver certified, now is the time to extend your knowledge, skills, and experience. The Advanced Adventure Diver course helps you increase your confidence and build your scuba skills so you can become more comfortable in the water.  This is a great way to get more dives under your belt while continuing to learn under the supervision of your Academy of Scuba instructor.  This course builds on what you’ve learned and develops new capabilities by introducing you to new activities and new ways to have fun scuba diving.

You’ll hone your skills by completing five adventure dives that introduce you to: (1) Underwater Navigation and (2) Deep Diving.  Plus, you choose a sampler of three more Adventure Dives of your choice. One reason you’ll love the Advanced Adventure Diver course is that you and your instructor choose from 15 types of Adventure Dives to complete your course. You can try your hand at digital underwater photography, wreck diving, night diving, diving with underwater scooters, peak performance buoyancy, and much more.

To take the Advanced Adventure Scuba Diver course, you must be:  An Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization) and 15 years old (12 for Junior Advanced Open Water Diver).

What You Learn

The knowledge and skills you get in the Advanced Adventure Diver course vary with your interest and the adventures you have, but include:

· Mindset of an Advanced Diver

· Advanced Diver qualities, characteristics, traits, and practices

· Equipment considerations and configurations

· Dive Planning / Dive Management

· Simple Gas Management

· Practical aspects of deep diving

· Physiological effects of deeper scuba diving.

· Setting up for a deep dive.

· Basic Underwater Compass Use

· How to navigate using kick-cycles, visual landmarks and time

· How to better use your dive computer and decompression tables

· Basic buoyancy theory

· Dive planning for limited visibility and/or night diving

· More about underwater communication and buddy/team diving techniques

· Dive leadership skills

· Introduction to new levels of diving

Lastly, as a part of your Advanced Diver Course, we will work with you on developing a “100th Dive Plan”  to assist in developing your skill set to become a great diver.

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Tuition Only $199.00 Tuition and Class Materials $233.00

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Learning and Classroom Materials

Required Materials:  Advanced Diver Student Manual, Advanced Diver Student Knowledge Reviews/Quests, Logbook, a Free Scubaboard.com and ArizonaScuba.com membership, notebook/pencil, an email account, and Open Water Certification Card.

Recommended Materials:  Academy of Scuba Gas Management Workbook, Subscription to Dive Training Magazine, Subscription to Scuba Diver Magazine, PADI Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving (CD or Print), World Atlas. Diver Insurance is HIGHLY Suggested.

Scuba Diving Equipment for Advanced Divers

Required Equipment: Personal Dive Equipment (Mask, Snorkel, Fins, Boots, Timing Device). Exposure protection appropriate for the conditions in which we will be diving, including gloves, hood, exposure suit and/or dry suit (if doing the dry suit adventure dive). Buoyancy Compensator Device (BCD) and Weight System. Regulator with Octopus (or integrated safe second), and SPG (or Dive Computer). Compass. Weights, Air or Nitrox Tanks (enough for the dives we will be doing).  O2 Analyzer if diving Nitrox. Decompression Tables, Cutting device (knife or snips). Primary light, backup light and tank identifier light (for night diving). UW Camera (if doing the Photo Adventure Dive).

Recommended Equipment: A second backup light.  A second cutting device. Repair kit for small repairs.  First aid and Emergency Oxygen kit.  Dive flag/float. Rash guard. Slate (for communications and writing uw notes). Redundant computer or bottom timer. Extra batteries for your flashlights, cameras, etc.

Required Safety Equipment:  An audible emergency alert system (A scuba whistle or compressed air horn).  A visual emergency system (a safety sausage at least 6 feet long with attached glo stick and/or a signal mirror).

Recommended In-Water and “Don’t Forget” Items:  Bathing suit. Hat. Towel.  Jacket (if cold or windy). Sandals. Water (at least 1 liter). Lunch and/or snacks.  Sea sickness medication (consult your doctor beforehand if prone to seasickness or any medication). Chair.  Tarp (to set up equipment). Docs Pro Plugs (if needed), Scuba doo rags (to keep the sun off your head). Cash for lake entry ($6 for Lake Pleasant).