Seeking new challenges and unique adventures?  Want to learn about diving in the Monterey Bay area? Whether you just recently finished your basic SCUBA diving course or you’ve been diving for a while, this class will improve your diving skills and allow you to become a more confident and proficient diver. The course will provide you with the opportunity to experience diving in new ways and teach you new skills. You will experience  deep diving, fish identification, navigation diving, and more. While you take part in these new challenges, you’ll be gaining confidence with an instructor providing continual guidance and support.

After just one weekend of diving, you will have a new certification card that will distinguish you as a highly skilled diver.

Class Prerequisites

•     Ages 12+
•     Open Water certification
•     Completion of PADI Medical Form (Please Click Here to View Medical Form and Directions)

Schedule

Classroom Session: Friday night 5pm to about 6pm

Ocean Dives: Saturday plan for all day. Start times will very based on conditions and specialty dives being done. Sunday will be from 7am to about 3pm

Private Classes

Contact us for information on private classes to meet your individual scheduling needs.

What is included and Cost of Course

•     PADI E-learning
•     Advanced Diver Student Kit w/ SMB, Whistle and Slate
•     Store/Certification Fee
•     Classroom/ Pool / Ocean Sessions
•     Dive Boat
•     Instructor Fee
•     Total = $565*

*Rental equipment not included

Any new equipment you purchase from Aqua Safaris while in this class will be discounted 15%

What’s Included

•     PADI E-learning
•     Advanced Diver Student Kit w/ SMB, Whistle and Slate
•     1 Classroom Session
•     1 Pool Session (at instructor’s discretion)
•     5 Ocean Dives (includes 2 dives from a Monterey Bay Dive Boat)
•     Certification Card

Topics  (5 from the list below)

•     Navigation  ** required**
•     Deep Diving  **required**
•     Boat Diving
•     Night Diving
•     Peak Performance Buoyancy
•     Fish ID
•     Underwater Naturalist
•     Search and Recovery
•     and others

Required Equipment & Materials

As an advanced diver, you will need to have the following materials & gear:

•     Advanced Diver Student Kit
•     SMB (Comes in Student Kit)
•     Whistle (Comes in Student Kit)
•     Advance Open Water Dive Slate (Comes in Student Kit)
•     Log Book
•     Pencil for slate
•     Clip to Attached Advanced Open Water Diver Slate onto BCD
•     Cutting Tool (Dive Knife or Dive Shears)
•     Primary Dive Light
•     Secondary Dive Light (If Doing Night Dive Specialty)
•     Chem-Light (If Doing Night Dive Specialty)
•     Fish ID Card (It Doing Fish ID and Naturalist Specialty)
•     Remaining Gear Items Required to SCUBA Dive (can be rented from Aqua Safaris)*

*These items are in addition to your basic diving gear (mask, snorkel, fins, gloves, and booties). If you don’t already own this gear, we encourage you to visit us at Aqua Safaris. We offer highest quality, name-brand gear at prices guaranteed to be the lowest in Santa Cruz County.  All new equipment purchased while in this class subject to 15% discount.

Call to sign up now to reserve your space.

Let’s go diving!