Advanced Buoyancy Certification
Advanced Buoyancy Certification
Advanced Buoyancy Certification
Advanced Buoyancy Certification
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Advanced Buoyancy Certification

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About the Course

Excellent buoyancy control is what defines skilled scuba divers. You've seen them underwater. They glide effortlessly, use less air and ascend, descend or hover almost as if by thought. They more easily observe aquatic life without disturbing their surroundings. You can achieve this, too. The Advanced Buoyancy Specialty course improves the buoyancy skills you learned as a new diver and elevates them to the next level.

  • Take This Course If You Want to

    • The SDI Advanced Buoyancy Diver course takes an in-depth look at all of the following and more:

      • Why do we care about buoyancy?
        • Don’t touch the aquatic life, save the environment
        • Less fatigue, less effort required, more fun
        • Reduced air consumption = more bottom time
        • Able to control buoyancy = better pictures or video
      • When must a buoyancy check be performed?
        • When equipment is changed
        • When diving environment is changed
        • Have not been diving for a while
        • During every dive
      • Buoyancy factors
        • Additional equipment; photo, video, extra cylinder, extra equipment, dive lights, etc
        • Cylinder weight changes during a dive as air is consumed from the cylinder, dependent on cylinder size
        • Using lungs vs. BCD.
        • Using BCD vs. dry suit
        • Staying physically fit
        • Breathing patterns and technique
        • Compression of suit due to water pressure
        • Weights – position and distribution and what impact that may have
        • Streamlining equipment
        • Streamlining body (body positions)
        • Efficient kicking style
        • Practicing your skills
        • Weighting
          • Swimsuit
          • 3mm and 5mm wet suit
          • Cold-water suit with hood
          • Dry suit
        • How to perform a standard buoyancy check; with an almost empty cylinder

      Some of the required skills you will have to demonstrate include:

      • Assembling of dive equipment
      • Pre-dive check
      • Perform a pre-dive buoyancy check with almost empty cylinder
      • Adjust weight to achieve correct buoyancy
      • Change cylinder and use a full cylinder
      • Do a pre-dive buoyancy check with full cylinder
      • Controlled descent
      • Hovering exercises
        • Fine-tune with breath control
        • Fine-tune with BCD or dry suit
        • Close to bottom exercises, no touch
      • Swimming exercises
      • Ascent that includes a safety stop hovering; simulate safety stop if in pool
      • Log dive, noting the amount of weight used
      • Change to a full cylinder
      • Do a pre-dive buoyancy check with the full cylinder
      • Controlled descent
      • Hovering exercises
        • Fine-tune with breath control
        • Fine-tune with BCD or dry suit
        • Close to bottom exercises, no touch
      • Ascent that includes a safety stop hovering; simulate safety stop if in pool
      • Log dive, noting the amount of weight used