Advanced Ice Diver?

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Erich S

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I know that it’s summer but recently saw a PADI C-card for Advanced Ice Diver.
Anyone know what an Advanced Ice diver is?
 
Sounds like a PADI distinctive specialty. I searched and couldn't find specifics. You would have to call PADI and ask whom wrote the course. Then contact them and inquire about it. I heard there are over 15,000 PADI distinctive specialties. Examples include missle silo diving, zombie diver, so on and so forth.
 
Thanks, wonder if Advanced is untethered?
Think you're thinking of the Stupid Diver distinctive specialty.
 
Thanks, wonder if Advanced is untethered?

Advanced diver. That's the 1st diver in.
 
I thought that advanced was the guys that could retract their testicles back into their body.
 
I know that it’s summer but recently saw a PADI C-card for Advanced Ice Diver.
Anyone know what an Advanced Ice diver is?

The one who lives.
 
im working on an ADVANCED ice diver specialty as we speak ...it has more to do with rescue techniques and a few other things , im hoping its adopted by the agency as a main stream course and not a instructor specific specialty .............
 
Thanks, wonder if Advanced is untethered?

Negative on that. No agency is going to teach you the "treat it like a cave" approach because it can't be done within any standard. Lost and cut line are particularly problematic (they are bad enough in a cave but at least you have walls, a ceiling, and tieoffs to help you look - potentially for the last few minutes of your life). There is no way to teach someone how to exit a giant expanse of silt with no walls, no tieoffs, and no flow when they lose or cut the line. You can do that on your own but no agency and no insurer is going to buy off on someone teaching you how to endanger yourself.

There are a few sites where it's no suicidal. For well trained divers, Morrison's Quarry in Quebec is quite reasonable to dive like a well lite cave - everywhere else forget it.
 
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