SDI Advanced Adventure Diver
Advanced Scuba Course: SDI Advanced Adventure Diver in Jacksonville, FL
Go beyond the basics and start becoming the diver you actually want to be.
The SDI Advanced Adventure Diver course is the next step after Open Water certification. You will experience different types of diving, build confidence in new environments, and start developing the judgment, awareness, and control that make diving more enjoyable.
At Precision Depth Diving, we do not treat Advanced Adventure as a box-checking course. We use it to help new divers become more capable, more comfortable, and better prepared for real-world diving in North Florida and beyond.
Cost: $500 (due on first day of class)
Certified diver required | 2 days to complete | SDI certification | Small class sizes
Course price includes SDI eLearning and certification card. Students provide personal gear and are responsible for gas fills and site entry fees. Rental gear available upon request.
YOUR 5 ADVENTURE DIVES
Five Dives. More Experience. Stronger Diver.
Your Advanced Adventure course includes five instructor-led training dives designed to build your confidence, expand your skills, and prepare you for more of the diving you love.
REQUIRED
Deeper Diving Awareness
Deep Adventure Dive
Get an introduction to diving deeper than 60 feet, up to a maximum of 100 feet. You’ll explore how depth affects gas consumption, buoyancy, light, color, comfort, and dive planning.
REQUIRED
Underwater Navigation
Get an introduction to more advanced underwater navigation. You’ll build on your Open Water skills with compass work, natural navigation, distance estimation, and practical techniques for returning to your planned exit point.
CHOOSE 3
OPTIONAL
Night / Limited Visibility
Get an introduction to diving when natural light is reduced or visibility is limited. You’ll practice light use, communication, navigation, buddy awareness, and planning considerations for lower-visibility conditions.
OPTIONAL
DPV Diver
Get an introduction to diving with an underwater scooter. You’ll practice basic handling, streamlined body position, propulsion techniques, turns, team awareness, and maintaining control while using a DPV.
OPTIONAL
Advanced Buoyancy Control
Get an introduction to more refined buoyancy control. You’ll work on weighting, trim, breathing, body position, and efficient movement through the water with greater control and awareness.
OPTIONAL
Other Adventure Dive Options
Additional introductory adventure dives may be available based on student goals, site conditions, available locations, equipment, and instructor approval.
Your Adventure Dives Can Count Toward More
Each adventure dive is conducted as the first dive of its corresponding SDI Specialty course. For example, Deep Dive One, Navigation Dive One, Night & Limited Visibility Dive One, and so on.
After graduating from Advanced Adventure Diver, you can continue into any of those specialties and receive credit for the qualifying first dive already completed.
You Just Finished Open Water
You are certified, excited to dive more, and want guided experience while building confidence.
Open Water certification gives you the foundation. Advanced Adventure helps you build on it.
This course introduces certified divers to a variety of specialty-style dives, such as deeper diving, underwater navigation, buoyancy refinement, night or limited visibility diving, computer diving, or other approved adventure dives based on site conditions and student goals.
The SDI Advanced Adventure Diver course is open to certified Open Water Divers or equivalent. SDI lists the minimum age as 18, or 10 with parental consent, with junior divers limited to specialties appropriate for their age.
Is This Course Right for You?
You Want to Feel More Independent
You want to understand your dive plan, your computer, your gas, your navigation, and your role in the buddy team.
You Want to Explore More Diving
You are interested in deeper dives, night dives, springs, wrecks, better buoyancy, or future specialty training.
READY TO BUILD ON YOUR OPEN WATER SKILLS?
GET CERTIFIED ON YOUR SCHEDULE
Training With a Buddy?
Advanced Adventure is a great course to complete with the person you regularly dive with. Book together, choose a preferred training timeframe, and we’ll coordinate a small-group session focused on building experience, communication, and practical skills across a range of diving environments.
Complete the eLearning at your own pace
Meet with an instructor to plan your five adventure dives around your goals, site conditions, and available training options
Complete five instructor-led adventure dives, including required Deep and Underwater Navigation dives plus three additional dives selected for your course plan
Frequently Asked Questions
The SDI Advanced Adventure Diver course is the next step after Open Water for divers who want supervised experience in new types of diving. The course gives students an overview of five SDI specialty areas, including Deep and Navigation as the two required core dives, plus three additional specialty introductions.
No. Advanced Adventure and Advanced Diver are not the same thing. Advanced Adventure introduces you to several specialty areas through five instructor-led dives. SDI Advanced Diver is a separate recognition level that generally requires completed specialty training and additional logged dive experience.
No. Advanced Adventure does not certify you as a specialty diver in each area. Each dive is an introduction to that specialty. One qualifying dive from each specialty area may count toward the full SDI specialty certification if you choose to continue that training later.
The SDI Advanced Adventure Diver course includes five open-water training dives. Two are required core dives: Deep and Navigation. The other three are selected from approved SDI specialty areas based on student goals, site conditions, and instructor approval.
Yes. Advanced Adventure is designed for certified Open Water Divers who are ready to continue training and gain more supervised experience. That said, you should be comfortable with basic scuba skills before enrolling.
It will help you become a more experienced and capable diver, but the certification name can be a little misleading. Advanced Adventure is an important next step, but true advanced diving comes from continued training, practice, good judgment, and experience after the course.
Expect dive planning, briefings, instructor-led training dives, and debriefs after each dive. You will work on awareness, buoyancy, navigation, gas monitoring, computer use, buddy communication, and decision-making in new diving situations.
Students should have their own personal gear, including mask, fins, snorkel, boots, and appropriate exposure protection. Depending on the dives selected, additional gear such as a dive light, compass, dive computer, surface marker buoy, or cutting device may be required or recommended. Rental gear is available upon request.
Many divers continue into Rescue Diver, Computer Nitrox, Advanced Buoyancy, Night and Limited Visibility, Deep Diver, Drysuit, DPV, or other specialty training based on their goals. Advanced Adventure is a great way to figure out which direction makes the most sense for you.