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This course further develops your knowledge and skills. You will gain experience in planning and organising dives at different sites and under different circumstances. Additional experience will be gained in using small boats, chart work. navigation and many other related skills. The BSAC consider this grade as being a fully trained diver.
Introduction
Advanced Diver is the fourth grade in the BS-AC diving grade sequence, and the next after Dive Leader. BS-AC consider the Advanced Diver grade to be equivalent to the CMAS three star diver level.
Definition
A diver who is comprehensively trained, experienced and responsible and can manage and supervise a wide range of adventurous and challenging diving. This will include organising diving expeditions to explore unknown locations and branch activities including dives utilising developing technology and techniques.
Training towards the Advanced Diver grade relies much more on the progressive build-up of experience than on 'formal' lessons.
The Advanced Diver course consists of:
- 4 Classroom lessons
- Theory assessment
- 2 Dry practical lessons
- 2 Open water lessons
- 20 dives post Dive Leader- (which may include open water lessons) minimum 600 minutes underwater time
Open water diving should encompass each of the following, each on at least three occasions:
- planned two stop decompression dive
- drift dive
- dive in tidal waters
In addition a further six dives should include at least three of the following:
- navigation dive
- night dive
- low (<2m) visibility dive
- wreck dive
- wall dive
Of the 20 dives at least 10 should be carried out from boats, on at least 10 the student should act as dive leader and at least six dives should show experience of depths greater than 30m. On at least five occasions, including at both known and unfamiliar sites, the student should act as Dive Marshal.
| Lesson Type |
Code |
Name |
Contents |
Theory Lessons |
AT1 |
The Role of the Advanced Diver |
Charts, tides and weather |
| AT2 |
Advanced Diving |
Personal & equipment considerations, other diving gases/systems, developing own experience. |
| AT3 |
Organising diving from different platforms |
Dive marshalling and organising, Cox'n/Skipper liaison, crewing on boats, rope work |
| AT4 |
Review of Diving Conditions & on-site first aid
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Practical lessons |
AP1 |
Expedition Planning |
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| AP2 |
Rescue Management Review |
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Open water lessons |
AO1 |
Diving and Rescue skills |
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| A02 |
Rescue Management Review |
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Assessments |
AD Test |
Theory Test |
Multiple choice |
Instruction
Instruction for theory lesson AT1, and practical lessons AP1 and AP2 must be carried out by an Advanced Instructor or by an Assistant AI under on site supervision of an Advanced Instructor. For all other lessons, the instructor must be at least an Open Water Instructor and Advanced Diver.
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