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IANTD Training Facility 833 Updated on June 19, 1999.

ADVANCED OPEN WATER DIVER

A. PURPOSE

1. This mid-level continuing education program is designed to enable the IANTD Open Water (Nitrox) Diver to extend their proficiency in the water and to gain more supervised practical experience.

2. This program prepares divers to explore depths up to 90 fsw (27 msw).

B. PREREQUISITES

1. Certified IANTD Open Water (Nitrox) Diver or any CMAS One Star or RSTC entry level diver equivalent.

2. Must be a minimum of 15 years of age with a parent or guardian authorization, 12 for junior diver certification, or 18 years or older without guardian approval.

C. TEXTS

1. The IANTD Advanced Open Water Diver Student Manual and Workbook or approved text through a CMAS or RSTC related program.

D. PROGRAM CONTENT

1. The program must include 120 minutes of bottom time to be completed within 4 to 7 dives, if the skill and bottom time requirements are completed earlier the program may be completed within 4 SCUBA dives.

E. PROGRAM LIMITS

1. No dives below 90 fsw ± 10 fsw (27 msw ± 3 msw).

2. Appropriate safety stops will be made.

3. No more than 6 students per instructor. This ratio may be increased by 2 students for each assisting IANTD Dive Master up to a maximum of 10 students and 2 IANTD Dive Masters per class session.

F. WATERSKILLS DEVELOPMENT

1. Complete all RSTC or CMAS requirements for this second level diver certification.

2. Develop and demonstrate excellent buoyancy control by performing precise hovering and ascent rates.

3. Perform a bailout.

4. Rescue a diver from a depth no greater than 20 fsw (6 msw) and tow them 100 feet (30 meters) on the surface.

5. Perform 5 skill dives from the following core group: Search & Rescue, Salvage, Drift, Night, Deep (90 fsw / 27 msw), Wreck (non penetration), River, Survey, Simulated Decompression Stops with use of a pony bottle, Triangle / Complex Navigation, Boat, or Shore Entry.

6. Perform at least one alternate second stage gas sharing ascent dive commenced by the buddies swimming a distance of 25 feet (8 meters) to each other while simulating an out of air situation from their regulators and then commencing gas sharing on the alternate second stage.

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