SSI Advanced Adventurer Diver Course
The SSI Advanced Adventurer diver course is the next level after Open Water course. Equivalent to PADI Advance Open Water course, the SSI Advance Adventurer course is actually a combination of skill from different specialties.
In other words, you will touch the tip of the diving specialties in the Advanced Adventurer and experience the different ways of diving. You will become a multi-skilled, versatile diver by the end of this course.
The best thing about the Advance Adventurer course is that it consist mostly practical training. It implies that you will spent most of your time underwater, having fun with your instructor.
You will experiment diving using various new techniques, which are “mind-boggling” to Open Water divers.
Deep Diving, as the name suggest, extends the depth range of the diver to 30m.
Navigation dive is derived into two aspects – compass navigation and natural navigation. You will learn compass readings, observing visual reference points and terminologies like “fin-kick cycle” and “reciprocal heading”. On the other hand, you need to navigate your direction underwater without compass as well. You will learn how to do so by observing underwater environmental features to find your way.
Remember what computer looks like back in the days? Well then consider yourself lucky. During this dive, in lieu of the inflexible dive tables, you will be learning how to dive with a wristwatch-sized dive computer. In return of your trust and love, the dive com honours you with acute NDL, dive time, depth, and many more precious info. Your instructor will teach you how to maximize the advantages of the dive computer, and to plan a multilevel dive with it.
Diving in a wreck, as interesting as it sounds, requires proper skills. In Wreck Adventure dive, your instructors will give your a basic layout of wreck diving essentials. Although not as dramatic as the Titanic story, wrecks around Phuket do have some interesting information about it. Generally, in this course our instructor will teach you about the history, layout, and navigation method of the wreck.
Just as you learn it in your Open Water Course, light gets absorbed by water. Hence, the deeper you go, the darker it gets. This is why underwater photography requires you to master a whole new skill sets to be proficient in it. In this dive, you will learn about basic skills of underwater photography and the required diving skills to get good photos.
