As the name of this course says you will learn how to dive independently. This doesn´t nescessarily mean diving on your own. For us this is more oriented on the idea that even with a dive buddy both divers are self sufficient and have redundant equipment.
You will learn the planing aspect and what extra equipment you might need, as well as identifying correct limitaions for independent diving.
Tob e able to do this course you must have a Deep, Navigation, Night &Stress and Rescue as well as 75 logged dives.