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Continuing Scuba Education

A diver’s education doesn’t end with an Open Water Certification, in fact, it is just beginning.  To help divers safely conduct dives beyond the Open Water level, we offer courses such as Advanced Open Water, Rescue Diver and Nitrox diver.

The Advanced Open Water course is the next step after Open Water.  In the Advanced course, you will have the opportunity to experience a few different types of diving activities and environments that you don’t get to see during entry-level training.  The course consists of five dives and our classroom is the ocean.  Some of the dives could include Deep, U/W Navigation, Night, Wreck, U/W Photo, Drift, Multi-level and more.  The choice is up to you, within reason (we can’t do an Altitude Dive in Florida).  The Advanced course can usually be completed in two days which makes it perfect for a weekend of diving.  The course can be conducted locally, in West Palm or Jupiter, or we occasionally offer the Advanced course during a weekend trip to Key Largo.  Either way, it’s a great way to learn about these types of dives without making the mistakes of the trial-and-error method of learning.

The Enriched Air Diver course, usually called Nitrox, is one of our most popular courses.  Nitrox is an alternate breathing gas which more and more divers are discovering the benefits of every day.  Recreational Nitrox has an Oxygen content of 21-40%.  Since the Oxygen level is higher, that means the Nitrogen level is lower, which is where the benefits come from.  Contrary to popular belief, Nitrox is not for deep diving.  The biggest benefits come within the 50-100 foot range.  Nitrox divers in these depth ranges enjoy longer bottom times, shorter surface intervals, and a higher degree of safety in their diving due to lower Nitrogen levels.  The Nitrox course consists of a short classroom session and a practical session including analyzing and documentation.  Nitrox can be combined with Advanced Open Water for those interested in both courses.

Advanced Open Water divers are eligible for the Rescue Diver course.  The Rescue Diver course prepares you for a variety of situations such as a diver assist or rescue, management of an accident situation and providing first aid.  The first portion of the course consists of classroom training in areas such as diver stress, equipment-related problems and diver first aid.  The open-water portion of the course will train you to assist a tired or panicking diver, search for, locate and surface a missing diver as well as provide in-water artificial respiration while transporting and removing the diver from the water.  This course not only prepares you to help others, but it really increases your confidence level as a diver also.

Do your diving interests run a little bit deeper?  We offer technical training for those who are up to the challenge.  Click on the link below to learn more about Technical Diving.

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