When you first became interested in diving, your primary focus was most likely on getting your Open Water Diver certification. You soon realized, however, that trying to be a “real” scuba diver with nothing more than a beginning diver certification is like trying to compete in the job market with an elementary school education. It is just plain not enough.

This is why continuing education is so important. Your first step is to take the two-day Advanced Open Water Diver course. This course will introduce you to at least four different specialty diving activities, while gaining additional experience under instructor supervision. (It more than doubles the number of dives you made during your beginning course.)

Afterward, you can pursue other Specialty Diver ratings. Some of the most popular include:
 

Underwater Navigator

Why is it some divers seem to find their way under water with ease, while others consistently miss “the good stuff” — only to surface uncomfortably far from the boat or shore? The answer is that the more accomplished divers have mastered the skills of both compass and natural navigation. This is what the Underwater Navigator course is all about. And if you think that finding your way under water is difficult, prepare to be pleasantly surprised.
 

Deep Diver

Some of the best recreational diving takes place in water deeper than 20 m/65 ft. Such dives include wrecks and walls. The Deep Diver course builds on the skills you acquire as part of the Advanced Diver course to help enable you to make these dives safely and more effectively. You learn how to better manage your available breathing gas, as well as ways to maximize bottom time while avoiding decompression.
 

Night Diver

Why limit your diving to daylight hours when you can experience the wonder of what happens under water once the sun goes down? Diving at night, however, entails more than just grabbing a light and going. Special planning, preparation, equipment and communication skills are needed — among others. Fortunately, the Night Diver course can provide you with these skills in a very short period of time.
 

Underwater Imaging

If you think the digital era has revolutionized photography out of the water, wait until you discover what it has done for underwater imaging. No longer do you need costly underwater cameras, expensive strobes or pricey lenses to capture breathtaking underwater images. All you need is an inexpensive, point-and-shoot digital camera and housing — and our Underwater Imaging course.
 

Wreck Diver

Wreck diving offers something for underwater explorers of nearly every experience level. Learn how to protect wrecks from damage while at the same time learning how to reduce the risks to diver safety wrecks can pose. Discover how to most responsibly share your discoveries with divers and nondivers alike, whether it is through research, the preservation of artifacts or simply letting things be so they can be enjoyed by others.
 

Search and Recovery Diver

Every diver dreams of finding sunken treasure. Real treasure, however, is less likely to be gold doubloons and more likely to come in the form of lost wallets, golf balls or your aunt’s gold necklace. Even if you never end up looking for a single lost object, the skills you will learn in this course can help make you a better underwater navigator, a more careful observer of aquatic life and a more confident diver in less-than-ideal conditions.
 

Master Scuba Diver

If your goal is to become the most thoroughly knowledgeable and skillful diver possible, this comprehensive program is for you. Academically, it covers all of the in-depth knowledge we expect our Divemasters, AIs and Instructors to have. In-water training focuses on how to perform skills at a level that could serve as a role model for beginners.
 
 

Take the Next Step

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