Continuing
Your Adventure
And
even better: The Advanced Open Water
program Adventure Dive happens to be
the first dive of many PADI specialty
courses. So if you try, say, a dry suit
Adventure Dive (by itself or as part
of an Advanced Open Water Diver course)
and decide that you just have to have
a dry suit and finish the whole course,
you've already got the first course
dive under your weight belt (at the
instructor's discretion).
It
works the other way, too. If you know
now that you love, say, underwater photography
and go straight into the Underwater
Photographer course (which is a really
great program, by the way . . . but
we digress, the first dive from the
course counts toward your Advanced.
Open Water certification (at the instructor's
discretion). Discover Local Divingh,
not a course, and you already know about
this from the discussion on getting
a local orientation when diving in a
new area. The Discover Local Diving
Good things to know. The Rescue Diver
course refines and further develops
your accident prevention and handling
skills, plus teaches you to manage an
emergency. Experience provides a single,
supervised open-water experience to
some place new, with a briefing covering
local conditions, hazards and points
of interest, as well as an orientation
to special procedures and techniques
used in the area. During the dive, you'll
see some of the interesting points,
as well as the potential hazards to
avoid. It's a good way to plug into
the local dive community when you go
some place new, and find out what activities
suit the local environment. Meet people,
go places and do things.
Scuba
Review. Ditto, you already learned about
this, but it's worth a reminder: If
you go several months or longer without
diving (it happens, best laid plans
notwithstanding), you'll want to brush
up your dive skills and knowledge. In
Scuba Review, you complete some short
self-study (with a workbook or CD-ROM)
and review it with a PADI Divemaster.
Assistant Instructor or Instructor.
Then you make a confined water dive
to put the polish back on your skills.
Usually take, only a couple hours -
easy way to limber up mentally and physically
for diving.
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