Advanced Adventure Course

 

You would like to continue learning more about diving?

The Advanced Adventure Course is the first continuing education course after the basic course called Open Water Diver Course. Once you sugsessfuly finished your Open Water Course you can start right away to harden your knowledge about scuba diving and learn more useful skills that make you a better diver. The common question before starting the Advanced Adventure Course is: Should I wait or can I start after the Open Water Course to do the Advanced Adventure Course? The answer is no. No need to wait. Yes you should continue diving and learning. With your Open Water Course you have all the knowledge to be a responsible diver. But you might not be the best diver due to the fact that you did only the 4 mandatory dives (if you have done the course elsewhere) or 6 if you did the Open Water Course with us.  Most people do one holiday once a year where they would have the opportunity to dive. You would go home with not 4 not 6 but 11 dives would you do the Open Water and the Advanced Adventure Course with us. 11 dives is a very good basis and you would have enough practice to feel comfortable even if you do not get the chance to dive for a couple of years. Always remember: the more experience you have, the more you dive the better you get and the less you forget. The beginner course opened the door into the dive sport for you. The Advanced will give you more and more experience and your instructor will try to help you to get better in skills that you have problems with.  The better you know your equipment and the more you train the better and more independent of a diver you get.

 

Goals of the advanced adventure course:

The Advanced Adventure Course is a perfect course to see what “specialties” you like, where your interests are and what you have to train more. The course will let you see different aspects of diving and you can get an overview over different ways of diving in different environments. For example the Advanced Adventure deep dive to 30 m is one dive that will open the deep dive world for you. If you would like to know more about deep diving than you could participate in the Deep Diver Specialty course which adds 2 more dives down to max 40 m. Or if you are interested on learning more about navigation after the Advanced Adventure Navigation dive you could again add another Navigation dive to get the Specialty Navigation Diver. So the Advanced Adventure Course is a course with 5 dives that show you 5 different aspects of different specialties. 

Two of the five adventure dives are mandatory. That would be the deep and navigation dive.

We offer the five best suited adventure dives in our Advanced Adventure Course.

Deep dive (30 M)

The deep dive is one of the best and most requested dive in the Advanced Adventure dive Course. It is also one of the mandatory dives.You will learn in this dive to dive to a depth of maximum 30 m. As most dive sites in the world are deeper than 18 m this is a very useful dive to do. With the deep dive you will extend your depth limit from 18 m to 30 m. Some of the dive center in the world or especially live aboard trips do only take customer who have the deep 30 m certification.  The deep 30 m dive is sufficient for 99% of dive sites in the world. The deepest is 40 m for recreational diving and that would be another certification you could do if you would want to go to the limit of recreational diving. That would be a course mainly Dive Master and Dive Instructor would need to do. As a fun diver the Deep 30 m is normally enough. There is not much academics involved in the Advanced Adventure Course. There is not even a book for this course. Mainly because you learned all you need to know in your open water course. The advanced Adventure Course is more practical orientated. Your Instructor will explain all details about the deep dive but that will not be done in the classroom. He will do so on the boat on the way to the dive site. You will get a special briefing to each dive you do with all the information you need. But there is no classroom or final exam involved anymore.

 

Navigation dive

Navigation on land can be tricky if you need to go somewhere where you not have been before. Underwater is even more complicated. In your Open Water Course you already learned the basics about underwater navigation and working with a compass. In the Advanced Adventure Course we will teach you even more how to operate the compass and how to navigate with it. Some of the skills would be to navigate a triangle or a square underwater. You will also learn how to use “natural navigation” which is basically remember different landmarks to find the way around the dive site or back to the boat. A good diver will always use both. The compass and natural navigation. Your dive instructor will teach you both and when it is useful to use the one or the other. The dive instructor will already start to teach you the compass skills on land, as it is more easy to learn on land where you have only 2 dimension to think in. Many diver dive underwater into the right direction but forget that to keep the depth as will and end up at the surface. This course will make a better more secure diver out of you. The main goal of this dive is not to teach you how to dive and navigate without a dive guide but to make you confident enough to use your skills if you get separated from your group or in any kind of emergency. To become a better diver and harden your navigation skills that your archived in your Open Water Course.

 

Night dive

The night dive is a very popular dive in the Advanced Adventure Course. In this dive you can see the dive site in a completely different light. Your senses will be more sensitive in the night and the dive site will look much more colorful in the shine of your torch. You might have been at the same dive site in the day dive and now at night you might not even recognize it anymore. The site looks completely different in the night than in the daytime. The shine of the torch and the limited viability will let you see the site completely different. Also the animal will change form day active fish to night active creatures. Coral will look much more intensive and colorful in the night dive ad they reflect the light of your diving torch. With a bit of luck you might see some of the big hunter like Barracuda hunting in the twilight or a octopus, some of the big crabs or other night active animals. For most Advanced Adventure students the night dive is the highlight of the course. Learn to dive into the night with us. We start the night dive as a sunset dive around sunset time. This way you still have a rest light once you enter the water and dive into the night. At the end of the dive the sun has set and you will experience all aspects of a night dive. Another advantage of starting around sunset is that you will still be able to see some of the big hunter feeding in the twilight. 

Computer dive:

Obviously Technic and electronic also found their way into the dive sport. Nowadays most diver use a dive computer. You did learn the background in your Open Water Course and should always be able to calculate your dive time and button time manually but most of the dive shops provide or ask you to use a dive computer. Therefor the Advanced Adventure Computer dive is very useful to do. The dive computer recalculates every step of your dive. Meaning the mechanical way of using the dive table assumes that you stay all the dive on your maximum depth. Which is obviously not true.

So with recalculating the depth and dive time your dive profile will be much more accurate. You might be able to dive longer as you start ascending but also might get sanctions if you for example dive in a Jo-Jo profile. Another big advantage is that your computer also warns you if your assent rate is too fast. So all in all knowing the background of calculating the dive time is very impotent BUT diving with a dive computer makes your dive more secure, accurate and fun. Especially if you do more dives a day. Nitrogen accumulates in your body over the day and will make you to adjust the dive depth and time accordingly. We would always recommend to use a dive computer for every dive.

Peak Performance Buoyancy:

In this Advanced Adventure dive you will learn to control your buoyancy. That is obviously one of the most important skills a diver can work on. Once your buoyancy is getting better you will be able to dive with more confidence in different environments and your air consumption will get a lot better. A fun dive will only be fun if you do not have to think about your buoyancy anymore. In this course we will teach you several trick how to get a better buoyancy. One of the training skills is for example to dive through a plastic square in shallow water.

The entire Peak Performance Buoyancy dive will be conducted in a sandy area maximal depth 8 to 10 m. In this depth you will be able to learn but not run into trouble if the buoyancy is not mastered jet. Subjective of this course part is to learn in a playful way to become a better diver. This part is especially fun due to the skills. Like taking off your fins underwater, running on the sand, doing loops, and swimming on your back underwater. All that will teach you how to use your breath to control your buoyancy.

Navigating over small objects like a rock for example. You could use your BCD to control your buoyancy but it is much faster and more efficient to actually use your lung to archive the same thing. While you breath the air at the same time and not waste it by filling it into your BCD.

Advanced Adventure schedule:

Day 1: 11:30 Navigation (mandatory) and Peak Performance Buoyancy (2 dive this afternoon)
This 2 dives are conducted in shallow water for your own safety. They work on your navigation skills and buoyancy. 
Day 2: 6:45 deep 30 m (mandatory) and Computer. (2 dives this morning)
Both dives will teach you to become a saver diver.
Day 2: Night dive (every Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday)
* That is only a quick overview over the course. The schedule can be changed by the instructor.

In case you would like to do a Wreck dive. Than we recommend to do the deep dive at the wreck. We dive at the wreck on Mondays and Fridays.

 

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