What You’ll Learn

This course provides hands-on experience across multiple specialty areas, giving you a broad foundation for future training:

• Deep Diving: Planning and conducting dives beyond 60 feet.
• Navigation: Using natural references and a compass to navigate underwater.
• Additional specialties: Choose from options such as Advanced Buoyancy, Night Diving, Boat Diving, Computer Nitrox, Marine Ecosystem Awareness, and more.
• Skill refinement: Improved buoyancy, trim, situational awareness, and dive planning.
• Experience-building: Exposure to new environments and dive types under instructor supervision.

Program Overview

The Advanced Adventure Diver Course is designed to expand your comfort zone and introduce you to new diving opportunities. Each adventure dive counts as the first dive toward its corresponding specialty certification, making this course a flexible and efficient way to explore continuing education.

Prerequisites: Open Water Scuba Diver, Junior Open Water Scuba Diver, or equivalent.

Minimum age: 18, or 10 years old with parental consent.

Equipment needed: Standard personal gear and scuba gear and any specific gear required for chosen dives. Please see our continuing education gear page to review options.

Where Training Takes Place

Training is conducted at local lake sites, with dive selections based on conditions and student goals. These environments provide realistic settings for practicing navigation, deep diving, and other specialty skills.

What Comes Next

After completing the Advanced Adventure Diver Course, many divers continue with specialties such as Advanced Buoyancy Diver, Enriched Air Nitrox, or begin preparing for the Rescue Diver Course as they work toward the SDI Master Diver pathway.