Advanced Adventurer

One of the two mandatory Adventure Dives you must complete during the Advanced Adventurer course. The focus for the class is proper underwater navigation. When you visit a tourist destination like Cozumel you will most often have an experienced Divemaster which will monitor all navigational aspects for you. However, it is our goal to have you leave this course better prepared for diving without professional guides. Will will refresh your past compass skills then add to them, work on several means for situational awareness, and hopefully have you successfully lead our dive group to our pre-dive agreed upon exit location using your newly acquired skills.

The sun is just one reference you’ll learn to use in Underwater Navigation.

Skills Overview

• Knowledge Review
• Compass Use on Land
• Briefing
• Suiting Up
• Pre-dive Safety Check (BWRAF)
• Entry
• Descent
• Distance/Time-Estimation Swim
• Navigate a Straight Line Underwater Using Natural Navigation Techniques
• Navigate a Straight Line and its Reciprocal Underwater Using a Compass
• Navigate a Square Pattern Underwater Using a Compass
• Ascent – Safety Stop
• Exit
• Debrief
• Log Dive – Complete Adventure Dive

The second of the two mandatory Adventure Dives for Advanced Adventurer completion. On this dive we will descend to depths of 30 meters / 100 feet and partake in several skills and games / puzzles which combined will give you an appreciation for the narcotic effects of narcosis.

The search begins in the deep.

Skills Overview

• Knowledge Review
• Briefing
• Timed Task on Surface
• Assembling and Positioning Emergency Equipment
• Suiting Up
• Pre-dive Safety Check (BWRAF)
• Entry
• Descent
• Timed Task on Bottom
• Depth Gauge Comparisons at Depth
• Guided Tour (time/air pressure permitting)
• Ascent and Safety Stop
• Debrief
• Log Dive – Complete Adventure Dive

A great Adventure Dive for Cozumel when you consider every dive we do here is a Drift Dive. The dive begins with a new entry technique, finishes with deployment of a Surface Marker Buoy (SMB), and during the dive we learn a few techniques for being properly prepared for currents, and how to handle them in emergency procedures.

You won’t be seated like this in Cozumel drift dives.

Skills Overview

• Knowledge Review
• Briefing
• Gearing Up
• Pre-dive Safety Check
• Entry
• Group Descent
• Drift Dive for Fun and Pleasure
• Ascent – Safety Stop
• Exit
• Debrief
• Log Dive – Complete Adventure Dive

The Night Dive is one that as a beginner diver either intrigues you, or terrifies you. If you are brave enough we’ll take you into the deep, dark, and spooky realm of night diving. The class begins with proper preparation procedures for nights dives, new techniques and hand signals used at night, and an overall mental awareness which must be present on all night dives.

Descend into the unknown in the Night Adventure Dive.

Skills Overview

• Knowledge Review
• Briefing
• Suiting Up
• Pre-dive Safety Check (BWRAF)
• Entry
• Descent
• Acclimatization on the Bottom
• Navigation Exercise
• Guided Tour (time/air pressure permitting)
• Ascent – Safety Stop
• Exit
• Debrief
• Log Dive – Complete Adventure Dive

The SSI Boat Diver class is entirely theory and practical application once on the boat. Learn the terminology that’ll make you speak like a pirate, and learn the safety protocols of boat diving. Once submerged, its all fun dive baby!

Skills Overview

• Knowledge Review
• Briefing
• Suiting Up
• Pre-dive Safety Check (BWRAF)
• Boat Diving Entry
• Descent
• Dive for Fun and Pleasure
• Ascent – Safety Stop
• Boat Diving Exit
• Stow Equipment
• Debrief
• Log Dive – Complete Adventure Dive

Learn what it takes to penetrate the great shipwrecks of the world.

For the Wreck Dive Adventure Dive we’ll study the safety protocols of wreck diving, penetration diving, and overhead environments. There are several wrecks on Cozumel we can dive for this class, but most common is the C53 Felipe Xicotencatl. Please note we will not actually penetrate the wreck. If you wish to learn wreck penetration I encourage you to sign up for our Wreck Diver Specialty class. 

Skills Overview

• Knowledge Review
• Briefing
• Suiting Up
• Pre-dive Safety Check (BWRAF)
• Entry
• Descent
• Navigating the Wreck
• Returning to Ascent Point
• Ascent – Safety Stop
• Exit
• Debrief
• Log Dive – Complete Adventure Dive Training Record

Great underwater photos do not happen by mistake.

Want to learn how to take great photos underwater? It starts with perfecting your buoyancy in our Perfect  Buoyancy class, then transfer to the Underwater Photography class. Buoyancy is the single most important skill of good photography, but you’ll also learn how to achieve proper lighting and depths aspects but utilizing camera settings, and understand proper framing of images using ambient light.

Skills Overview

• Briefing
• Assemble and test camera equipment
• Gearing Up
• Pre-dive Safety Check
• Enter the water safely protecting camera system
• Demonstrate care for the environment and avoid damaging it
• Practice getting proper exposure, contrast and sharpness by using and controlling shutter, aperture, EV control, focus and flash
• Practice getting good color by using white balance, flash, filters and wide angle lenses • Practice composition through choice of subject, subject positioning, negative space and other compositional elements
• Ascent – Safety Stop
• Exit the water safely protecting camera system
• Debrief
• Log Dive – Complete Adventure Dive

See what all the fuss is about with Nitrox and why it should be an option for your future dives.

The Enriched Air Nitrox (EANx) Adventure Dive puts you in the water alongside an instructor using EANx in a practical application. Learn why it is important to analyze our air prior to every dive, learn to calculate our maximum depth and times, and understand the both the positives and negatives that come from Enriched Air diving. Please note this does not certify you to dive with EANx on future dives. To do so, you’ll need the EANx certification.

Skills Overview

• Knowledge Review
• Practical Application – analyze enriched air cylinder
• Complete contents sticker/tag and fill log
• Dive Planning – calculate maximum depth and time, and set dive computer
• Briefing
• Gear Up
• Pre-dive Safety Check
• Entry
• Descent
• Dive within planned depth and time limits
• Ascent – Safety Stop
• Debrief
• Log Dive – Complete Adventure Dive