SSI Advanced Open Water Diver

Description

Expand Your Skills. Explore New Environments. Become a More Confident Diver.

Ready to take the next step after earning your Open Water certification?

The SSI Advanced Open Water Diver program gives you the opportunity to experience five different specialty areas while building practical skills under the guidance of a Tri-City Scuba SSI Professional.

Rather than focusing on a single type of diving, this program introduces you to several new diving environments and techniques. You’ll complete one open-water training dive from each included specialty, giving you a better understanding of which areas of diving you may want to pursue further.

Your Five Specialty Dives

The Tri-City Scuba Advanced Open Water Diver program includes:

Deep Diving

Learn how depth affects your dive planning, air consumption, buoyancy, awareness, and equipment while developing the skills needed to explore deeper dive sites safely and confidently.

Navigation

Improve your ability to navigate underwater using a compass, natural references, distance estimation, and awareness of your surroundings.

Wreck Diving

Discover the fundamentals of safely exploring the outside of submerged wrecks while learning about wreck-diving procedures, potential hazards, and responsible diving practices.

Night & Limited Visibility

Experience an entirely different side of diving as you learn communication, light-handling, navigation, buddy procedures, and techniques for diving in darkness or reduced visibility.

Perfect Buoyancy

Refine your buoyancy, trim, breathing control, body position, and propulsion techniques so you can move more efficiently and comfortably through the water.

One Dive From Each Specialty

This program includes the introductory academic session and first open-water training dive from each of the five specialties.

Your completed training may be credited toward the corresponding full SSI Specialty certifications should you choose to continue your education later.

Why Take Advanced Open Water?

The SSI Advanced Open Water Diver program is an excellent choice for divers who want to:

• Gain experience beyond basic Open Water training
• Improve buoyancy, navigation, and overall dive control
• Explore deeper dive sites and wrecks
• Become more comfortable in darkness or limited visibility
• Experience several SSI specialties before choosing additional training
• Build greater confidence and versatility underwater
• Prepare for more advanced diving opportunities and destinations

Add SSI Enriched Air Nitrox

Divers who do not already hold an Enriched Air Nitrox certification may add the full SSI Enriched Air Nitrox course to their training.

Nitrox can provide additional flexibility when planning repetitive dives and is one of the most useful specialty certifications for active and traveling divers.

Please contact Tri-City Scuba for pricing and scheduling when adding Nitrox to your Advanced Open Water training.

Prerequisites

Participants must:

• Hold an Open Water Diver certification or qualifying equivalent
• Be at least 12 years old
• Complete all required SSI training and medical forms
• Meet any additional site-specific or instructor requirements
• Have appropriate personal diving equipment or arrange rental equipment with Tri-City Scuba

Divers younger than 15 may receive the appropriate SSI Junior certification based on current SSI training standards.

Course Format

The program includes:

• SSI digital learning materials
• Five academic or instructor-led training sessions
• Comprehensive pre-dive briefings
• Five open-water training dives
• In-water instruction and skill development
• SSI Advanced Open Water Diver certification upon successful completion

The five training dives may be conducted over multiple days depending on scheduling, dive-site conditions, student needs, and instructor availability.

Maximum Training Depth

The maximum program depth is 100 feet, subject to the diver’s age, previous training, experience, comfort, environmental conditions, and instructor discretion.

Equipment and Additional Costs

Unless otherwise stated, course tuition may not include:

• Personal scuba equipment
• Rental equipment
• Dive-site admission or facility fees
• Charter or boat fees
• Transportation
• Cylinder rentals or fills
• Enriched Air Nitrox training or fills
• Lodging, meals, or travel expenses

Please contact Tri-City Scuba before registration if you need rental equipment or have questions about required gear.

Scheduling

Course dates and dive locations are based on instructor availability, weather, water conditions, and access to appropriate training sites.

Contact Tri-City Scuba for upcoming dates or to discuss scheduling options.

Continue Your SSI Education

After completing the Advanced Open Water Diver program, you may continue any of the included specialty areas and apply eligible training toward the full SSI Specialty certification.

This allows you to explore several types of diving now and pursue the specialties you enjoy most as your experience grows.

Take the next step in your diving journey with SSI Advanced Open Water Diver training from Tri-City Scuba.