Adventure Diver

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 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 Adventure Diver?

Have you always wanted to try underwater photography? How about Nitrox diving? Here's your chance because you can sample three dives of your choice, get a taste of what you like, and feel more comfortable in the water, strengthening your underwater skills and letting you enjoy diving more than ever.

What do I need to start?

•  Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization)
• Minimum age: 15 years old (10 for Junior Adventure Diver)

What will I do?

This certification includes three of the following Adventure Dives:

• Specialties Available to divers 10 years old and older:
• AWARE-Fish Identification Underwater Naturalist
• Boat Underwater Navigator
• Peak Performance Buoyancy
• Underwater Photography
• Additional Specialties Available to divers 12 years old and older:
• Altitude Multilevel
• Deep Night
• Dive Propulsion Vehicle (DPV)
• Search and Recovery
• Drift Diving
• Underwater Videography
• Dry Suit
• Wreck

How long will it take?

• Recommended Course Hours: nine
• Minimum Open Water Training: three dives over one day

What will I need?

• Adventures in Diving Crew-Pak
• Adventures in Diving Video
• Log Book

Where can I go from here?

After your Adventure Diver certification you can take the next step by completing two more adventure dives. If you've completed five total adventure dives that include deep and navigation, you're an Advanced Open Water Diver.

 Adventure Dives can also count towards Specialty Diver certifications. If you liked your Night Adventure Dive so much that you wanted to take a complete Night Diver Specialty course, your Night Adventure Dive can count as the first dive of that specialty.