Open Water Diver training is designed to give you the basic knowledge and skills needed to explore the underwater environment. Specialty training takes you beyond those basic skills and prepares you to dive in a variety of situations and conditions, while increasing your confidence, making you a more comfortable and safe diver. New skills such as underwater photography, deep diving or night diving, broaden your diving experience, increase your appreciation for the underwater world, and are a whole lot of fun! Learn these skills with safety and confidence under the guidance of a professional Sonoma Coast Bamboo Reef Instructor.

Most Specialty Courses consist of a self-study text, short exam, and two dives in that specialty. Each individual specialty course is $75.00. The books for each specialty are usually $16.95 each. Kits with DVDs are also available.

SSI's Advanced Open Water Diver rating includes 4 Specialty Classes and a total of 24 logged dives. If you have already achieved the Specialty Diver rating (2 Specialties and 12 dives), you only need to complete 2 more specialties and 12 more dives to achieve the Advanced Open Water certification. Most specialties include 2 dives each. As in the Specialty Diver Program, the remaining dives needed to achieve your 24 dive requirement are completed by diving on your own, or joining us on one of our Fun Dives, Boat Dives, or by taking more Specialty Courses that interest you. The most popular Specialties for the Advanced Program are Deep Diving, Night/Limited Visibility Diving, Navigation, and Boat Diving. More specialties are listed below. The Advanced Diver course price is $135 plus books. The optional Advanced Diver Certification Card including up to 5 specialties and your total number of logged dives listed is $35.

*Buy Both Specialty Diver and Advanced Open Water Together for only $265 Save $35*

We are currently working on a dedicated Advanced and Specialty Class schedule in order to offer you even more options for continuing education training.

Please give us a call to schedule the classes you are interested in to be done at your convenience!

* Stress and Rescue is a separate course with additional classroom and pool times.

Please see the Stress and Rescue page for all the information.