Continuing Your Diver Edcuation -
PADI Advanced Open Water Diver £199.00
Want to Take Your Diving Further Then Choose Abyss Scuba
The Adventures in Diving program offers both the Adventure Diver and Advanced
Open Water Diver certifications. If you complete any three adventure dives,
you can earn your PADI Adventure Diver certification. If you complete
your Deep Adventure Dive, Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive and three
Adventure Dives for a total of five, you can earn your Advanced Open Water
Diver certification.
Why Advanced Open Water Diver?
After your five dives, you'll be more experienced, feel more comfortable
in the water and simply enjoy diving more because you better understand
the underwater environment.
What do I need to start?
PADI Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from
another organization)
Minimum age: 15 (12 for PADI Junior Advanced Open Water Diver)
What will I do?
This certification includes five Adventure Dives, including the Deep Adventure
Dive, the Underwater Navigator Adventure Dive and any three of the following:
Altitude Diver
Boat Diver
Drift Diver
Deep Diver
Dry Suit Diver
Diver Propulsion Vehicle
Multilevel Diver
Night Diver
Peak Performance Buoyancy
Search and Recovery Diver
Underwater Naturalist
Underwater Videographer
Underwater Photographer
Underwater Navigator
AWARE Fish Identification
Wreck Diver
How long will it take?
Recommended Course Hours: 15
Minimum Open Water Training: five dives over two days
What will I need?
Adventures in Diving Crew-Pak
Adventures in Diving Video
Log Book
Where can I go from here?
PADI Advanced Open Water Divers at least 15 years of age can enroll in PADI Wreck or Deep Diver Specialty courses and continue on to the PADI Rescue Diver or Junior Rescue Diver course.
PADI Adventure Dives can also credit towards the corresponding PADI Specialty Diver certifications
Adventures in Diving programs are a perfect way to gain experience, enhance confidence and explore new underwater adventures with Abyss Instructors. Your diving skills will improve, you will be certified to dive to deeper depths opening up new dive sites, underwater marine life, coral reefs and walls. It will improve your understanding of equipment and configuration.
British Sub Aqua Club Sport Diver Qualification
Sports
Diver Course Outline £265.00
The Sports Diver Course consists of the following elements:
six classroom lessons
a theory assessment
a dry practical lesson
one Sheltered Water lesson
one optional Refresher/Orientation dive
five Open Water lessons.
All practical training in both Sheltered and Open Water includes the achievement
of specific performance standards at appropriate points throughout the
lessons.
Sports Diver Theory Lessons
Classroom Lessons are structured to provide prerequisite knowledge appropriate
to their counterpart practical lessons.
ST1 Sport Diving
ST2 Diver Rescue
ST3 Equipment and Techniques
ST4 Deeper Diving
ST5 Breathing Gas Planning and Systems
ST6 Going Diving
Sports Diver Sheltered Water Lessons
The practical sheltered water lesson is to build on the practical skills
learnt at Ocean diver in rescue skills
SS1 Rescue Skills
Sports Diver Open Water Lessons
The emphasis on the Open Water dives is to build on the skills already
taught during the Sheltered Water lessons and extend the practical knowledge
of the student.
SO1 Diver Rescue
SO2 Use of SMB
SO3 Simulated Decompression Dive
SO4 Compass Navigation/DSMB deployment
SO5 Dive Leading/Basic Skills Review
To ensure that students receive experience in a range of conditions,
the open water dives must include 5 conditions from the following, appropriate
to the local conditions in which they will subsequently be diving:
shore dive - dive either commencing and/or ending at a gently shelving
shore requiring a wading entry/exit
nitrox dive - using a breathing gas > 21% Oxygen up to a maximum of 36% (Nitrox)
dive using shot line - dive commencing with a deep water entry, using a shot line as the only visual reference for the descent and ascent, and ending with a deep water exit
low visibility dive - dive in visibility in the range between 2 and 4 metres
drift dive - dive in moving water in the speed range between 0.25 and 0.5kn
small boat dive - dive from a boat of less than 8m overall length, where water entry is via a backward roll, and egress from the water requires removal of equipment in the water
large boat dive - dive from a boat of greater than 8m overall length, (where the water entered) is via a stride entry, and egress from the water is accomplished via ladder without removal of any equipment except, possibly, fins
wall dive - dive along a vertical or near vertical wall with no solid bottom closer
than 4m below the divers
dive in protective clothing - dive wearing either a wet suit or dry suit
Only one of the above conditions may be logged per dive. The Sports Diver syllabus includes 5 open water lessons which should total a minimum of 150 mins underwater time.
Sports Diver Dry Practical Lesson
Before undertaking this lesson, students should have a good basis of experience
of diving activities. For this reason, this should be included as the
final lesson in the sequence.
SP1 Assistant Dive Manager
Continuing Diver Education
Completing either of the above courses opens up more avenues for continuing your diver training and education you can move onto become a PADI Rescue Diver, this course is seen by many as the basic level requirement for all divers to attain.
You can also move further up the BSAC courses by undertaking the Dive Leader programme.
Abyss Scuba offer both of these courses contact Steve on 07944 352903 for more details.
Benefits of Contiuning Diver Education
The
more training you undertake with Instructors the more competent and confident
you will become in the underwater enviroment. You will enjoy your diving
much more and will likely find you use less air as you progress.
Rescue diver is the level which almost dive professionals agree is the qualification that all divers should attain as a minimum, the course teaches you self rescue skills and buddy rescue skills and will make you much sought after as a dive buddy.
