Welcome to the "Adventures in diving" program, your first step beyond Open Water diver certification!
Diving is a vehicle to a wide range of activities and inter-related skills that create adventure, fun and recreation, no matter how varied your interest.
The PADI "Adventures in diving" program consists of specific Adventure Dives. We do the following Adventure dives at the mentioned locations:
Sodwana, Red Sea, Mozambique (Coast):
Deep
Multilevel & Computer
Peak Performance buoyancy
Underwater Naturalist
Underwater Navigation
Bass Lake (Vereeniging):
Altitude
Deep
Peak Performance buoyancy
Underwater Navigation
Wreck
Aliwal Shoal (Umkomaas):
Deep
Multilevel & Computer
Peak Performance buoyancy
Underwater Navigation
Wreck
During your Advanced Qualifying you will do the following:
Complete all relevant Knowledge Reviews in your “Adventures in diving” manual
Mark the Knowledge Reviews before you do the dives
Your Instructor will brief you on the skills & task to be performed during the dive
After the dive your Instructor will de-brief you and sign off your logbook
You can do your "Advanced" course with different trips over a period of 12 months. You can do for example 2 dives at Bass Lake and 3 at the Coast. What's needed Just yourself & your own softgear!
What's next Rescue Diver of course!
PADI Rescue Diver course teaches you emergency prevention, intervention and management. This course is one of the most challenging and rewarding courses you can complete as a diver.
You will improve your skills and confidence as a diver in order to prepare you to move to Master Scuba diver and/or Dive Master.
Notes
An Adventure diver is a person who has completed 3 Adventure dives. This can count towards your Advanced Open Water rating.
Once you've obtained 5 Adventure dives, of which Deep and Navigation must be 2, you qualify for Advanced Open Water diver.
To be come a Specialist Diver you need to complete 2 - 3 of the same Adventure dives (depending on which Specialty you choose)
Once you've obtained 5 Specialties and Rescue Diver, you can apply for Master Diver rating the highest non-professional dive rating with PADI!
Who will be training me?
Peter Herbst (Big B) - Course Director, IANTD Instructor Trainer, Cave, Trimix & Rebreather Instructor
Henry Green - Staff Instructor, Rebreather, Nitrox Instructor