This course can be taken right after you've completed the PADI Open Water Diver certification. The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course is designed to enhance your diving knowledge and skills.

 

The focus of the Advanced Open Water Diver course is to advance your abilities. You can sign up right after obtaining your PADI Open Water Diver certification, irrespective of your skill level. This course builds your confidence in navigation, refines your buoyancy skills, and introduces various diving activities like wreck diving, night diving, and underwater imaging. After completing Advanced Open Water manual, you’ll undertake five Adventure Dives: a deep dive (beyond 18m/

60 feet), a navigation dive, and three additional Adventure Dives of your choice to achieve certification.

 

Why choose Advanced Open Water Diver?

Upon completing the five dives, you'll gain more experience, feel at ease in the water, and enjoy diving even more due to a better understanding of the underwater world.

 

What do I need to begin?

A PADI Open Water Diver certification (or a qualifying certification from another organization).

 

What will I do?

This certification includes five Adventure Dives, including the required Deep Adventure Dive, Underwater Navigator Adventure Dive, and any three from the following options:

• AWARE Fish Identification

• Boat Dive 

• Digital Underwater Photography

• Drift Dive 

• Enriched Air Diver

• Multilevel & Computer Diver

• Night Dive 

• Peak Performance Buoyancy

• Search & Recovery Dive

• Underwater Naturalist

• Underwater Navigation

• Underwater Videography

 

How long will it take?

• One Classroom Session

• Minimum Open Water Training:

  5 dives done over 2 days

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Minimum Age

15 years old

(12 for Junior Advanced Open Water Diver)

 

Equipment

All dive equipment is included.

 

What will I need?

The following are all provided as part of your course:

• Adventures in Diving digital manual

• Adventures in Diving video

 

Where can I go from here?

PADI Advanced Open Water Divers aged 15 and older can enroll in PADI Specialty courses and progress to the PADI Rescue Diver or Junior Rescue Diver course. Additionally, PADI Adventure Dives can count towards corresponding PADI Specialty Diver certifications.