GUE ADVANCED OPEN WATER DIVER

Requirements:
Divers who have completed the GUE Open Water course, GUE Performance Diver course, or GUE Fundamentals course and have logged at least 15 non-training dives are warmly welcome.

What Will I Learn?
The Advanced Open Water Diver Course consists of three main components: Navigation, Rescue, and Deep Diving.

• Navigation:
  You’ll refine your skills using a primary light, enabling you to conduct night dives, dives with limited visibility, and advanced compass or natural navigation. You’ll also learn how to deploy a guideline.

• Rescue:
  Building on your existing knowledge, you’ll practice emergency management and rescue techniques, including search patterns and rescues from land, at the surface, and underwater.

• Deep Diving:
  The deep diving portion of the course can be conducted using either Nitrox 32 or Triox 30/30. You’ll learn how these gases affect you at depth, how to plan deeper dives, and how to control descents and ascents. Performance Divers will also practice deploying a surface marker buoy (SMB) during navigation.

By the end of the course, you’ll become a much more confident and capable diver, ready to take on more challenging underwater adventures.

Requirements and Duration:

• Minimum age: 16 years
• Physically and mentally fit
• Non-smoker
• Ability to swim
• Written approval from a doctor for any medical conditions or prescription medications that may affect diving
• Completion of GUE Open Water (Recreational Diver 1), GUE Performance Diver, or GUE Fundamentals course
• At least 15 non-training dives
• Current BLS (Basic Life Support) certification from a recognized agency within the last 24 months
• For double tanks: 15 dives in GUE double-tank configuration or 10 dives with doubles after completing the GUE Doubles Primer
• For drysuits: 15 dives in a drysuit or 10 dives in a drysuit after completing the GUE Drysuit Primer

The course typically lasts six days, includes 11 dives, and requires at least 48 hours of instruction, incorporating classroom sessions, land exercises, and practical in-water training.