Advanced Level Courses
You have completed your Beginner training and you have many dives registered in your Dive Registry ... You start to feel more comfortable under water with each dive. What you need to do now is to become an Experienced Diver by joining one of the Advanced Level Trainings. Each of our Advanced Level Trainings will open new horizons for you; It will allow you to increase your limits and will help you to make safer, more enjoyable and more comfortable dives.
PADI Adventure Diver
Complete three Adventure Dives (underwater photography, fish identification, etc.) and earn the Adventure Diver certification, a subgroup of the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course.
Description
The Adventure Diver course is a subset of the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course. Have you always wanted to try digital underwater photography, fish identification or dry suit diving? There’s a long list of scuba adventures you can take part in during this program. Complete three Adventure Dives and you earn the Adventure Diver certification. It’s a great opportunity to work with your instructor to build your scuba skills and gain more confidence. Get a taste of what you like and enjoy scuba diving more than ever.
Get credit! Each Adventure Dive may credit toward the first dive of the corresponding PADI Specialty Diver Course. If you’ve already taken a specialty diver course, ask your instructor if you’ve earned credit for an Adventure Dive.
PADI (Junior) Open Water Divers who are at least 14 years old and want to take the next step should enroll in an Adventure Diver course. Young divers may only participate in certain Adventures Dives – check with your PADI Instructor.
Academic
You can choose what you’re most interested in learning. Need to work on your buoyancy skills? Try the Peak Performance Buoyancy Adventure Dive. Want to know what you’re looking at down there? Try the AWARE - Fish Identification or Underwater Naturalist Adventure Dives. You’ll plan your path with your instructor, go over what you need to know and dive in quickly.
Equipment
Beyond using basic scuba equipment, you’ll learn to use specialized gear depending on the Adventure Dives you choose. For example you will need a dry suit for the Dry Suit Adventure Dive or a sidemount configuration for the Sidemount Adventure Dive. Your PADI Instructor will explain the equipment that you need and may suggest additional gear, such as a dive light for night diving or a lift bag
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PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
PADI is one of the most enjoyable courses of further education. You can join this course as soon as you finish the Open Water course. It is a 5 dive program. The choice is yours;
Deep and Navigation diving is compulsory and you can determine the other 3 dives according to your wishes with your instructor. These:
Night Diving
Wreck Diving
Perfect Buoyancy
Fish Identification
Boat Diving
Underwater Photography
Underwater Videography
Current Diving
and similar dives.
In the theoretical part of the course, you should have read the sections of the PADI Advanced training book about the dives you will do.
PADI Rescue Diver
It is a course that improves the ability to prevent problems under water and in the diving environment, and provides special skills that will be required in a dive accident. Rescue Diver Course: It can be divided into academic and practical trainings. It can be completed with an intensive program of 4-5 days.
Who can attend?
Anyone with an Advanced Open Water Diver and EFR certificate, 25 registered dives and at least 15 years old can participate. Students who do not have a valid EFR certificate must complete the EFR course before the Rescue Course ends.
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PADI Emergency First Respond (EFR)
This course consists of basic skills such as first aid, cardiac massage and artificial respiration, and theoretical and practical lessons. To participate in PADI Rescue and Dive Master courses, you must have successfully completed the EFR First Aid course in the last 24 months.
PADI Master Scuba Diver
It is the highest and most prestigious level in the PADI system that can be achieved without progressing to Professional ranks. Although it is not necessary to complete a special course, PADI Open Water, PADI Advanced Open Water is a level accessible to experienced divers who have PADI Rescue certificates, with a minimum of 50 dive experience in total and 5 of the above specialties.
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