United Divers also provides a Continuing Education System that is designed to let you personalize your education to become the type of diver you want to be. This system can earn you a Continuing Education Rating such as Advanced Open Water Diver or Master Diver. The Continuing Education Ratings are the only ones in the industry that combine training and experience requirements, proving that ratings provided by United Divers are truly earned -- our reputations depends on it!

Only 4 Specialties and 24 Dives To Get Your Advanced Open Water Diver Rating!

The advance course is designed to meet everyone's needs once you have completed the Open Water Program. The SSI advanced program allows you to go at your own pace. To achieve the advanced rating you must earn four specialty ratings and complete a minimum of 24 dives.  For the advanced course we recommend night diving, deep diving, navigation and a fourth specialty of your choosing. You can begin the advanced course immediately after completing the Open Water Diver course (or equivalent) or you can choose to wait until you have more experience.

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Prerequisites: Open Water Diver certification or equivalent.

Knowledge:The intent of this training is to help you become an advanced Diver. The material covered in this course is intended to help you gain more dive experience with the benefit of being supervised by a professional Advanced Instructor. The program includes a self-study guide and home-study reading materials to be completed and reviewed before your open water dives. This course builds on the material you were presented with in your open water certification course.

Skills:The Advanced Open Water Diver training dives will introduce you to a variety of popular specialty diving, including experiences in deep diving, night diving, underwater navigation, wreck diving, and others as well as more buoyancy control practice. This course thoroughly covers the area of compass usage underwater to enable you to know where you are throughout your dives. The emphasis of the advanced level of instruction is to provide you with a wide range of dive experiences that will enable you to gain a level of independence and diver competence.