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Continue your Adventure

You are now an Open Water Diver and you wish to increase your knowledge and discover new diving experiences.

 

ACUC offers you many opportunities to do so. We recommend that the next step you take is to do the ACUC Advanced Diver course and after this course, the Rescue Diver course.

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE ADVANCED DIVER COURSE

 

In this course you will expand on the theory that you learnt in the OWD course. You will also be introduced to some specialty diving, so that you can later decide which specialties you like and which specialty courses you might wish to take. Minimum age is 12 years old.

 

You will learn more about matters such as: Equipment Maintenance; Reduced Visibility Diving (night diving, etc…); Confined Space Diving (caves, shipwrecks, etc…); Underwater Navigation; Marine Biology and Ecology; Deep Diving (40 metres/130 feet); Basic Boatmanship notions, etc…

 

You can also obtain this level by taking an specific number of specialties. You can see the ACUC standards, course contents and requirements for this course in this PDF document

 

 

ACUC SPECIALTIES AVAILABLE TO OPEN WATER DIVERS

 

But besides the Advanced Diver course, you can also take if you wish, as an Open Water Diver, the following specialty courses:

 

· First Aid Provider

· DAN or USP Emergency Oxygen Provider

· Surface Controller

· Equipment Maintenance

· Rescue Specialist (not to be confused with Rescue Diver below)

· Night Diving

· Underwater Navigation

· Deep Diving (40 metres/130 feet)

· Underwater Photography

· Wreck Diving (non penetration)

· Underwater Archaeology

· Dry Suit diving

 

For more information on these specialty courses, please contact your nearest ACUC Instructor or ACUC at acuc@acuc.es

 

 

ACUC SPECIALTIES AVAILABLE TO ADVANCED DIVERS

 

As an Advanced Diver, the following specialty courses, additional to the ones mentioned above, become available to you:

 

· Wreck Diving (penetration)

· Ice Diving

· Cave Diving (exit/entry point always visible)

 

For more information on these specialty courses, please contact your nearest ACUC Instructor or ACUC at acuc@acuc.es

 

 

THE RESCUE DIVER COURSE

 

This course is the minimum level to which ACUC recommends all divers should be trained to. You must already be certified as an Advanced Diver. The course will train you to recognise diving problems and emergencies before the occur, and if they occur anyway, then you will learn also how to handle these problems and emergencies.

 

Although not mandatory, ACUC highly recommends that candidates to this course also take the specialties of First Aid Provider and Emergency Oxygen Provider. Minimum age is 16 years old.

 

As a Rescue Diver, you may enter the ACUC Professional levels if you wish (See “Turn Professional”) or continue on to obtain the “Master Plus Diver” or the “Specialties Plus Diver” rating (see the ACUC Training Ladder chart)

 

You can see the ACUC standards, course contents and requirements for this course in this PDF document

 

Once you obtain this level (Rescue Diver), you may take if you wish any ACUC specialty, besides the above mentioned for Open Water and Advanced Divers, such as:

 

· Full Cavern Diving

· Teaching Assistant (not to be confused with Assistant Instructor, which is an ACUC professional level)

· Underwater Guide, etc...

 

For more information on these specialty courses, please contact your nearest ACUC Instructor or ACUC at acuc@acuc.es

 

 

WHERE TO TAKE THESE COURSES

 

For a list of where you can take an ACUC course please check our “Go Diving!” section or contact ACUC

 

If you are already a diver with another organization and you wish to crossover to ACUC, please see also the ACUC Crossover information

Information about advanced and specialty ACUC courses