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SDI ADVANCED BUOYANCY COURSE
Advanced Buoyancy Course in Jacksonville, FL
Move Through the Water With More Control
Refine your weighting, trim, breathing, and body position so you can dive with less effort, better awareness, and cleaner control around the underwater environment.
Cost: $350 (due on first day of class)
Open Water Certified Required | 2 Training Dives | SDI Certification | Small Class Sizes
Course price includes SDI eLearning, instruction dives, and certification card. Students provide personal gear and are responsible for gas fills and site entry fees.
BUOYANCY CHANGES EVERYTHING
What Is Advanced Buoyancy?
Advanced Buoyancy is a specialty for divers who want to spend less time fighting their gear and more time enjoying the dive.
You’ll work on the details that make a real difference underwater: proper weighting, horizontal trim, breathing control, finning technique, and maintaining position without constantly using your hands or inflator.
The goal is not to look good in photos. It is to become more efficient, more aware of your surroundings, and more comfortable maintaining control throughout the dive.
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Learn how equipment placement, weighting, and body position affect your balance in the water.
Better Trim
More Efficient Movement
Use breathing, finning, and small adjustments instead of constantly adding and dumping air.
Maintain position around your buddy, the bottom, and sensitive underwater environments without kicking up sediment or drifting into things.
Better Awareness
READY TO DIAL IN YOUR BUOYANCY?
GET CERTIFIED ON YOUR SCHEDULE
Training With a Buddy?
Advanced Buoyancy is a great specialty to complete with your regular dive partner. Book together, choose a preferred training timeframe, and we’ll coordinate a small-group session focused on trim, control, communication, and awareness underwater.
Complete the eLearning at your own pace
Meet with an instructor for a focused session on weighting, trim, breathing, body position, and efficient movement
Complete two instructor-led open water training dives focused on refining control and awareness underwater
Frequently Asked Questions
This course is for certified divers who want to improve control, trim, weighting, and comfort in the water. It is a great fit for newer divers who want more practice after Open Water as well as experienced divers who feel like they are still fighting their gear.
The course includes two instructor-led training dives focused on weighting, trim, breathing control, body position, finning technique, and maintaining position underwater.
Yes. Advanced Buoyancy can be completed in confined water or open water depending on the training plan, location, and your goals. However, we prefer to teach Advanced Buoyancy in open water conditions at a variety of depths within the student's training limitations.
No. The prerequisite is Open Water Scuba Diver certification or equivalent. Advanced Buoyancy is often one of the best specialties to take early because the skills carry into every type of diving that comes next.
You will work on proper weighting, horizontal trim, breathing control, streamlined body position, finning technique, hovering, and maintaining position without relying on constant inflator adjustments or hand movements.
Better buoyancy and trim can reduce unnecessary movement and effort, which may help you dive more efficiently. The course does not promise a specific improvement in air consumption, since breathing rate is affected by many individual factors.
Potentially. If you completed the Advanced Buoyancy Adventure Dive during your Advanced Adventure course, that dive may count as the first dive toward the full specialty. Contact us with your training records and we can confirm what applies.