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Advanced Open Water
This a step all divers should take! The Advanced Open Water (AOW) course offers the necessary basic training for deeper diving, night diving and better underwater navigation. Besides the two core dives (Deep and Navigation), three elective dives complete the course. These can be chosen from Boat, Drift, Multilevel, Night, Peak Performance Buoyancy, Search and Recovery, Underwater Naturalist and Wreck. Briefings and discussions take place aboard the boat and no classroom or pool sessions are required. It's a great way to gain experience in a fun, supervised manner.

Dives take place every Saturday and Sunday at the Singapore Southern Islands aboard our fast cat Typhoon. Night dives are usually once a month on Tuesdays. For more information please go to Diving in Singapore.

Advanced courses are also regularly conducted on liveaboard and land-based trips to Malaysia.

Speciality courses
The speciality courses enable you to expand your knowledge and gain more experience in the types of diving you find most interesting. Depending on the course, you'll complete two, three or four dives to gain your speciality rating (for some courses, you may be able to count a dive from your AOW course as the first dive). 

Speciality courses include Boat Diver, Deep Diver, Drift Diver, Enriched Air Diver (Nitrox), Multilevel Diver, Night Diver, Peak Performance Buoyancy, Search and Recovery, Underwater Naturalist, Underwater Navigator, Underwater Photographer, Underwater Videographer and Wreck Diver (for obvious reasons, we don't teach the Altitude Diver, Dry Suit Diver or Ice Diver courses in Singapore!). For more information, see the 'Adventures in Diving' handbook or the Specialities section of the PADI Web site.

Emergency First Response (EFR)
The Emergency First Response course is a basic training course in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and emergency care. It is a medically based assistance course designed to train students to follow, at the layman's level, the same emergency procedures and priorities used by doctors and paramedics. EFR replaces the Medic First Aid course previously offered by PADI.

The course is divided into two four-hour modules, one covering CPR and one covering basic first aid. Each module can be completed in a morning or evening session, or both modules can be completed in a full day. The CPR module is required for Rescue Diver status.

Rescue Diver
The Rescue Diver course is the next step if you are really into diving or are thinking of becoming a Divemaster. This course consists of two nights of class and pool training followed by two days of diving. There is a Rescue manual to read also. You'll learn techniques for dealing with panicked and unconscious divers both underwater and at the surface, resuscitation in water and on shore/boat, removal of disabled diver from the water on to the shore/boat, effective search patterns for locating a missing diver and first aid for marine injuries and diving accidents.

The course is physically demanding but is good fun and very rewarding. Most importantly, rescue training can help you to save lives by responding quickly and efficiently to diving emergencies.

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