What the Course Entails

Specialty Development: Complete four recognised specialty certifications to expand your knowledge and skills across different areas of recreational diving.

Advanced Diving Skills: Develop greater confidence and competence through specialty training covering areas such as deep diving, navigation, wreck diving, night diving, drift diving, advanced buoyancy, or other available specialties.

Diving Experience: Build practical experience through a minimum of 25 logged open-water dives, gaining exposure to different environments, conditions, and diving situations.

Dive Planning: Strengthen your ability to independently plan recreational dives, including gas management, equipment selection, navigation, depth and time management, and appropriate emergency planning.

Equipment & Configuration: Gain experience using equipment and configurations appropriate to your chosen specialties while developing good equipment-management and preparation habits.

Continuing Education: Use your specialty certifications as a foundation for further recreational training, including Rescue Diver and additional specialty programs.

Course Duration: 3 Days

Course Pre-requisites

Open Water Certification: Hold a recognised SDI Open Water Scuba Diver certification or an equivalent certification from another recognised training agency.

Specialty Certifications: Hold a minimum of four SDI, TDI, or ERDI specialty certifications, or equivalent specialty certifications from another recognised training organisation. (tdisdi.com)

Logged Dives: Have completed and logged a minimum of 25 open-water dives.

Medical Fitness: Meet the applicable medical requirements and be fit to participate safely in scuba diving activities.

Course Flow

Choose Your Specialties: Work with your instructor or dive centre to select specialty courses that match your interests, experience, and future diving goals.

Complete Specialty Training: Successfully complete four SDI specialty courses, including the academic and practical requirements for each selected specialty.

Build Dive Experience: Log a minimum of 25 open-water dives, applying your skills across different environments and diving conditions.

Refine Your Skills: Continue improving buoyancy, navigation, gas management, dive planning, situational awareness, and other skills through ongoing diving experience.

Document Your Experience: Maintain an accurate dive log and keep your specialty certifications available as evidence of your completed training.

Certification: Once the required specialty certifications and minimum number of logged open-water dives have been completed, the SDI Advanced Diver certification requirements can be fulfilled.

How Can I Get Started?

Check Your Certification: Make sure you hold a valid Open Water certification from SDI or another recognised training agency.

Choose Your Specialties: Select four SDI, TDI, or ERDI specialties that complement your diving interests and goals.

Find a Dive Centre: Choose an SDI Dive Centre and qualified instructor who can provide the specialty training you need.

Complete Your Specialty Courses: Work through the required academic and practical training for each selected specialty.

Log Your Dives: Continue diving regularly and build your experience until you have recorded at least 25 open-water dives.

Earn Your Advanced Diver Rating: Once the required specialty certifications and logged dives have been completed, obtain your SDI Advanced Diver certification.

What is the next adventure?

Rescue Diver: Develop advanced skills for preventing, recognising, and managing diving emergencies while learning how to assist and respond to other divers.

Additional Specialties: Continue expanding your knowledge with further SDI specialty certifications such as Deep Diver, Wreck Diver, Night/Limited Visibility Diver, Drift Diver, Advanced Buoyancy, Underwater Navigation, and other specialty programs.

Master Scuba Diver: Progress toward the SDI Master Scuba Diver rating by continuing your specialty education, developing rescue skills, and building your logged diving experience.