The SSI Advanced Adventurer program is intended to allow and prepare O/W divers to experience and enhance student interest in different areas of recreational diving, as well as to encourage these divers to further their diving education and experience. As well as allowing them to dive deeper then 18 meters.

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The SSI Advanced Adventurer program acts as a tool for SSI Instructors, Dive Centers, Training Facilities and Resorts to promote Continuing Education and leadership level programs, which is built upon skills and experience during this course. The student can choose five Specialty Dives in different areas of diving, with the Deep and Navigation Specialty Dives as core dives (and are mandatory).

Individual Specialty Dives offers the diver opportunities to sample new diving activities under the guidance of an SSI Dive Leader as well as set the foundation for additional training. Divers who are unable to complete the Advanced Adventurer Course are encouraged to conduct individual Specialty Dives. Dive documentation should include a Specialty Dive Training Record and the diver’s log book, signed by an Active SSI Instructor or Certified Assistant, if applicable.

All individual Specialty Dives are a brief introduction into each Specialty area. The dive leader must inform the student that there is more to learn in each Specialty area and in order to be certified as a specialist is said area, hence increasing enrollment in Specialty courses etc.

The performed dives of the Advanced Adventurer Program are credited towards all Specialty Courses, at the instructor’s discretion, so that students will only have to complete all academics and the remaining dives to successfully finish the Specialty.

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The Advanced Adventurer certification also entitles the student to accredit these dives towards other courses such as Specialty Diver, SSI Advanced Open Water Diver or SSI Master Diver ratings.
It is in the best interest of SSI Instructors and Dive Centers to promote the SSI Advanced Adventurer and above as part of an integrated program of SSI Continuing Education.