Utila is home to a huge variety of dive sites, which makes the island a great place to take your Advanced Open Water course. From deep dives (to a maximum of 130ft/40m) such as Black Hills or wreck dives where you can explore the famous Haliburton wreck, to drift dives exploring the overhangs of Blackish Point or the caves and caverns of Airport Caves.

Navigation on the reef can be a little difficult without some training, so a required part of the Advanced Open Water course is to learn more effective underwater navigation techniques. Another required dive for the Advanced course is the deep dive.  Ever thought about diving at night? The Advanced course will take you into the different world of night diving!

Taking an Advanced course is all about gaining more dive experience with the expert tutelage of one our instructors. By the end of the course you’ll feel more comfortable and you will be a more experienced diver able to get more from your dives because you will better understand the underwater environment.

Starting with the required minimum of the Deep and Navigation dives you can then choose a minimum of three further dives (you can choose more if you want to). You can choose from:

• Night
• Wreck
• Naturalist (Reef ecology and conservation, Reef Fish identification and behavior)
  
• Photography
• Search and Recovery
• Drift/Current Diving
• Peak Performance Buoyancy

For the Naturalist and Photography dives you will benefit from our resident professional underwater photographer and marine ecosystem expert.

NAUI and PADI

At Alton's Dive Center we offer two Advanced Diver courses for you to choose from...

 

• NAUI Advanced Scuba Diver;
• or PADI Advanced Open Water Diver.

You can choose either NAUI Advanced or PADI Advanced, regardless of your current certification and for future training both PADI Advanced or NAUI Advanced is accepted by the other agency.

So, what’s the difference?

• The minimum number of training dives on the NAUI Advanced course is 6. The minimum number on the PADI course is 5.

• The Deep Dive on the PADI Advanced you will plan and make a dive to a maximum of 30m/100ft dive. The Deep Dive on the NAUI Advanced you will plan and make a dive to a maximum of 40m/130ft dive.

• The NAUI Advanced also requires that you be taught some rescue diver skills so that you will know how to help your buddy in an emergency situation.

Whichever you choose it it is up to you, all of our instructors are PADI instructors and NAUI instructors so in the end the choice is yours.

Still unsure?  Then wait until you arrive to choose your advanced course and discuss the options with any of our instructors.

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