What are the differences between being an Advanced Adventurer diver and an Advanced Open Water Diver?
The first difference is found in the training category:
The Advanced Adventurer is a self-certified course, while the Advanced Open Water Diver is a recognition qualification.
Which is better?
There is no course that is better than another, it all depends on the objective you want to achieve. After your Open Water Diver course you can continue your training and become an advanced diver, the certification necessary to access more interesting dives, such as night dives, deep dives or scooter dives for example. The possibilities are almost endless.
These are our suggestions to get the most out of your training
Advanced Adventurer
SSI's Advanced Adventurer provides certified divers with an introduction to five (5) distinct SSI specialty programs under the direct supervision of an SSI professional.
This course consists of 5 adventure dives and includes a digital course and a digital certification.
Adventurer dives are supervised experience dives only and should not be confused with the Advanced Open Water Diver program recognition qualification.
Each specialty dive has a pre-dive explanation, but does not necessarily have a theoretical class in the classroom or a specific theoretical exam for each of the selected adventure dives.
Here's a pretty common example for the Advanced Adventurer:
- 1st adventure dive Perfect Buoyancy
- 2nd adventure dive Computer Diving
- 3rd adventure dive Navigation
- 4th adventure dive Night Diving
- 5th adventure dive: Deep Diving
Advanced Open Water (pack 4)
This course consists of 4 complete specialties (to choose from more than 50) + 2 recognition qualifications, Specialty Diver and Advanced Open Water Diver, and includes 4 digital courses and their respective digital certifications.
The advantage of this pack is that the Total price is much lower than if the specialties were purchased separately. This is due to the reduced cost of the digital kits since we can combine the dives of the specialties without reducing the quality of the course.
Advanced Adventurer vs Advanced Open Water Diver:
Having said all this, it is now time to make an example comparison of what a student receives in a Deep Diving “Assistant Adventurer” adventure dive and what a student receives in the complete Deep Diving specialty “Advanced Open Water Diver Pack”
Pre-water training:
“Advanced Adventurer” Adventure Dive:
Pre-immersion explanation.
Deep Diving Specialty “Advanced Open Water Diver Pack”:
Online course with 5 topics, review of knowledge at the end of each topic, final verification exam.
Theoretical class, adapted to active learning, with vitally important content such as dive planning using the diving computer, changes during deep dives in the components of your equipment and your body, decompression illnesses
Multiple choice test and resolution of doubts.
Pre-dive explanation for each of the 3 deep dives you will receive during your training.
Training in water:
“Advanced Adventurer” Adventure Dive:
An adventure dive led by an SSI Open Water Instructor or higher
Deep Diving Specialty “Advanced Open Water Diver Pack”:
Three specialty dives led by an SSI Deep Diving Instructor
Certification and training:
“Advanced Adventurer” Adventure Dive:
The Deep Diving adventure dive will appear on your Advanced Adventurer certification.
It enables you to dive up to 30 meters deep.
Deep Diving Specialty “Advanced Open Water Diver Pack”:
Full Deep Diving Specialty Certification.
It enables you to dive up to 40 meters deep.
Conclusions:
If what you want is to learn in depth the basics of a diving specialty and acquire the knowledge and/or techniques necessary to master it, the most recommended option is to take the complete specialty course. Advanced Open Water Diver Pack.
If you want to try a kind of baptism of the specialties, the most recommended option is adventure diving. “Advanced Adventurer”:
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