The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course is designed to enhance your diving abilities and can be started right after you’ve obtained your PADI Open Water Diver certification, regardless of your current skill level.

 

This course aims to boost your confidence in navigation, refine your buoyancy skills, and introduce you to diverse diving activities such as search and recovery, drift diving, and underwater imaging. After completing the 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 choosing to achieve certification.

 

Why choose the Advanced Open Water Diver course?

Upon completing the five dives, you will gain more experience, feel more comfortable in the water, and enjoy diving even more due to an enhanced understanding of the underwater world.

 

What do I need to begin?

You’ll need a PADI Open Water Diver certification or a qualifying certification from another organization.

 

What will I do?

This certification includes five Adventure Dives, specifically the required Deep Adventure Dive and Underwater Navigator Adventure Dive, along with 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?

The course includes theory and a minimum of

five open water training dives completed over two days.

 

Minimum Age:

The minimum age requirement is 15 years old

(or 12 for Junior Advanced Open Water Diver).

 

Equipment:

All necessary dive equipment is included.

 

What will I need?

The following resources are 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.