Want to increase your knowledge and skills in the water? If you’re considering advancing your education in scuba diving, or if you aren’t sure why you should there’s a few excellent reasons to continue your learning;

1. Comfort and Buoyancy

   The more you practice your buoyancy, the better you’ll get! And trust me, you can be controlling your buoyancy by your breathing just like your instructor in little time! Buoyancy seems really hard and awkward when you’re first learning to dive, but just like with anything, the more you practice the easier it gets. And once you have buoyancy down, you’re able to be a lot more comfortable in the water.

2. Knowing your dive gear

Typically, as you progress in your diving, you tend to acquire your own gear and figure out what you like. This is important as it goes hand in hand with your comfort level in the water. The more dives you have with a certain type or BCD or regulator will not only help you get used to how that gear should feel but also how it works. One of my favorite parts of continuing my dive education was actually learning how the gear functions and where and what can go wrong. By having this deeper knowledge of the gear and its function, I am more comfortable in the water and figuring out solutions if something seems wrong.

3. With knowledge comes problem solving

Advancing your education is a great way to explore new and different types of diving and learn how to be a better diver. When I took my Rescue Diver course, I learned a lot about the science of how diving affects our bodies, which is very important to understand. In addition, advanced courses are able to get more into detail about the very broad information you’re given in your open water course. Because you get into more detail about functionality of gear, effects of pressure on a body, and stress and response, you in turn become not only more comfortable with your equipment, but you learn how to improvise should you need to.

4. New techniques and dive locations

There are so many different paths you can take in diving that continuing your education could simply mean opening up new locations or types of diving. If you’re really interested in photography, you can pursue the underwater photography specialty. If you really want to try ice dives you can get dry suit certified. If you’ve always wanted to explore underwater caves there’s a specialty for that too! Continuing your education is a great tool to see something new or different if you’re starting to feel like you need something new. And by the way, scuba diving Key Largo reefs and wrecks offers divers plenty of material to photograph with our great marine life!!

5. More advanced, more scuba diving opportunities

If you’ve ever thought about pursuing a career in the dive industry or a marine related field, having advanced education looks great on resumes. Since getting my advanced dive certifications I have been able to participate in research on the reefs as well as AGGRA coral surveys, biodiversity surveys and removing invasive lionfish off the reefs. I have also gotten a job in the dive industry and has opened up possibilities I couldn’t have received in other fields.

Advanced Adventurer Certification – taking your scuba diving to a higher level!

At Sea Dwellers Dive Center we offer the “Advanced Adventurer Course”, which includes 5 specialties over 3 days of diving. A deep dive, and a navigation dive are required, and then you get to choose 3 more specialties from a list that includes things like Peak Buoyancy, search & recovery, underwater photography and many more! Those interested can check this link to our Advanced Diving Course page!

Advancing my education has helped me expand my opportunities in my career in scuba diving! I've met an incredible network of dive professionals and future dive buddies here at Sea Dwellers Dive Center!

Thank you!
– Divemaster Natalie