Course overview

SSI's Advanced Adventurer course in Pondicherry lets you sample five different adventure dives across the Bay of Bengal, including deeper sites like the Aravind Wall. It's the fastest route to deeper certification and discovering which specialties you'll want to pursue on India's east coast.

What you’ll learn

• Experience five specialty adventure dives
• Dive deeper within recreational limits
• Navigate with compass and natural references
• Improve buoyancy and trim
• Identify specialties to pursue further

Prerequisites

• 12 years or older
• SSI Open Water Diver (or equivalent)

What's included · What's not

Probability of sightings · month-by-month

What you're likely to see each month, based on historic operator logs.

Day-by-day itinerary

1. Day1
   Deep and elective dives

   Complete a deep adventure dive plus an elective on Bay of Bengal reefs.
2. Day2
   Navigation and electives

   Finish navigation and remaining adventure dives, exploring deeper sites.

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