Diving is an exciting pastime for many people. Once you earn the Open Water Diver certification, you will be eligible to move to the Advanced level (SDI Advanced Open Water Diver or SDI Advanced Adventure Diver). This provides an excellent opportunity to expand your knowledge and improve your skills.

What Is Required of Advanced Open Water Divers?

 We generally require the diver to be at least 16 years old and have some diving experience outside the certification dives he or she has performed as part as his or her Open Water certification. Our version of this Advanced certification level takes a total of six days and requires between 12 and 15 dives, covering Deep diving, Underwater Navigation, Low Visibility (and Night) diving, Wreck diving, and Nitrox.

If you don’t have any or enough diving experience outside the Open Water course and its certification dives we will help you gain it, to get you ready for starting the Advanced level.

Many northeast divers choose to add the drysuit certification into the mix. We can make that work too.

Why Should You Become Certified?

In the northeast most wrecks lie deeper than the Open Water certification’s 60-foot limit. Because of that local charter operators will most of the time require from you at least an Advanced certification level to give you space in their boats.

During the Advanced Diver training you will gain important diving experience, learn to use more advanced equipment and develop new procedures and strategies. In short, you will be a better and more confident diver. 

Once certified you can come to dive with us to the local wrecks of the Jersey shore, North Carolina and Florida.

The better prepared you are, the safer you will be and the more fun you will have!

When you're ready to gain experience as a diver, come with us, Northeast Recreational Divers . Our team will sharpen your skills and help you become a part of a passionate scuba diving community. Visit our website to learn more about us, or give us a call (973) 458-3783. Check out our Facebook page, Northeast Recreational Divers, and our Instagram page Northeast Recreational Divers.