PREREQIUSITES: PADI Open Water diver certification or an acceptable equivalent
DESCRIPTION:After you've earned your PADI Open Water diver certification or the acceptable equivalent, you're ready for the Advanced Open Water Course. The Advanced class provides an excellent opportunity to expand your diving skills under professional, experienced supervision. At Adventures Under the Sea, we offer over 35 years of diving experience to make your Advanced class a real learning adventure.
The class features three core dives: Deep Dive, Navigation Dive & Wreck Diving. In addition, you must complete two elective dives. We like to have those two dives consist of Drift diving & Limited Visibility or a Night dive.
Want to start sooner? How about right now! You can now do all the academic work, quizzes and final exam all on line in the comfort of your home..or anywhere with an Internet connection. When you have completed the e-learning portion you then will only need to complete the water training with us to complete the class. All the dives you do in this class counts towards the correlating specialty class. The Gulf of Mexico offers great Wreck diving and Spearfishing while middle & south Florida have great Wreck & Drift diving and are considered to be the "Wreckreational" Dive Capital of the World. There are over 80 wrecks in the Miami/West Palm Beach area alone. Drift diving is the "Norm" and is done in these areas where the current can be heavy So, we feel that a concentration on drift diving is paramount.
The knowledge and skills you get in the Advanced Open Water Diver Course vary with your interest and the adventures you have, but include
Practical aspects of deep diving
Physiological effects of deeper scuba diving.
More ways to use your underwater compass
How to navigate using kick-cycles, visual landmarks and time
How to better use your dive computer and electronic Recreational Dive PlannerTM (eRDPTM)
And much, much more, depending on the Adventure Dives you choose
Most Advanced divers remain very active in local diving.
REQUIERMENTS:
Reservations are required.
Student record file.
Minimum age 12, students under 15 will receive a Jr Advanced diver that can be upgraded once 15 years old.
Under 18 need a parent or guardians approval & signature.
Although not required, we recommend that all divers have diving insurance. The cost is very low and benefits high. Please take a look here!
COSTS:
The price for the Advanced certification class is $379.00. Purchase this course now online! But can vary with different destinations. This price includes text book, all boat fees, Hotel room(dbl occ),instruction, scuba rental gear and the license. Personal gear (mask snorkel, fins, wetsuit*, timing device, compass and flashlight if you do the night dive) are not included. *SPECIAL ADD COMPUTER NITROX CERT FOR JUST $99.99* (Minimum age is 15 for Nitrox) Although not required, we recommend that all divers have diving insurance. The cost is very low and benefits high. Please take a look here!
GOLIATH IN THE GULF. WEEKI WACHEE DIVING! HOW TO MAKE AN ALUMINUM SCUBA TANK! HOW TO MAKE A STEEL SCUBA TANK!
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Robert Malone went fishing for shrimp and pulled in a surprise: a 27-pound Maine lobster that could never be viewed as shrimpy. The beast, caught in the vicinity of Rockland, Maine, was dubbed Rocky, reports the Associated Press. Of course, the size of the lobster's fearsome claws also bring to mind the meaty fists of that boxer named Balboa.
Malone opted to donate the nearly 40-inch-long crustacean to the Maine State Aquarium in Boothbay Harbor, the AP says. That's pretty magnanimous -- depending on how you look at it. Lobster prices aren't what they once were, having fallen along with the economy around 2008. But they were above $3.30 a pound in 2010, and the Maine lobster industry is bubbling over what looks to be a record haul in 2011, the new site says. And, as the AP reported last year, the harvest in 2010 was one to exclaim over, with 93.4 million pounds valued at $308 million. By the pound, Rocky should be a valuable lobster. But this crustacean's size could indicate a long life. And geezer lobsters don't make great eating. Times Food Editor Russ Parsons on Thursday said he would avoid making dinner out of Rocky. "The generally accepted wisdom on lobsters is that any time you get above, say, 3 pounds, bigger is certainly not better," Parsons said. "These are old beasts and they tend to be tough. An aquarium is almost certainly its highest and best use. Preferably a very large aquarium." ALSO:
If you think that meeting a great white is bad while scuba diving, then you think twice… specially if you go SCUBA DIVING in Florida… because … well, you never know what kind of Gator you will find.
Hello new marine life! hello PADI Gator Specialty.
As I cruised along the sand, from the hazy distance I could see a dark shadow,” Ruda writes. “Not being able to discern its shape too well, I thought to myself, ‘Holy cow! That’s a huge stingray.’”
Ruda said when he got closer, he couldn’t believe his eyes.
“This creature was so out of place that I thought it was nothing more than a well-planned out hoax by my good friends,” he said. I took a photo from a distance in case it wasn't a hoax so I would have some kind of proof. As I approached closer I looked carefully at its mouth for the tell-tale sign of what I thought it was -- a salt water crocodile (in 60 feet of water!). But I could tell it wasn't a crocodile. It was, in fact, a 5 - 6 foot American alligator. Its eyes were closed and it did not move so I was almost certain this was one heck of a joke my friends were playing on me. I mean, no one can expect to see an alligator miles out in the ocean. So I approached within inches of it to get some pictures you know to play along with the joke. But suddenly its eyes opened and it moved its legs. Oh my goodness!! I could not believe this gator was the REAL thing.
FUN FACTS & SCUBA TRIVIA
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<>THOUGH Cousteau is given credit for the invention of SCUBA, Leonardo da Vinci had drawn up plans for a leather scuba suit about 300 years earlier.
<>EVER wonder why everything appears blue in underwater pictures and movies? The water above divers filters all the red and yellow light, making everything appear to have a blue hue. *Diving with an artificial light source will allow you to see true color under water.
<>IF you decide you really like to dive, it is possible to get married underwater!
<>HUMANS kill close to 100 million sharks per year, while the number of shark attacks of humans resulting in death is only 8-12 per year.
<>THE world record for longest dive is 69 days and 19 minutes and is held by Richard Presley. He completed this dive in 1992 in an deep-water module at Key Largo, Florida.
<>OVER 90% of all volcanic activity happens in the ocean!
<>SCIENTIST estimate that up to 80% of all life on earth is found under the ocean surface.
<>THE largest living organism on earth is Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. It has a larger surface area than all of England!
<>THE Blue Whale is the largest known animal on the planet, with a heart the size of a small car.
<>FISH can change sex during their lives, and some even have both male and female sex organs. Intrigued? Come explore the ocean with us to see for yourself, and bring a friend!
