About the Course

The Advanced Open Water Diver course is all about advancing your skills. You'll practice navigation and buoyancy, try deep diving and make three specialty dives of your choosing (it's like a specialty sampler platter). For every specialty dive you complete, you can earn credit toward PADI® specialty certifications.

Here are a few of the many options: Deep, Digital Underwater Imaging, Dive Against Debris, Enriched Air Nitrox, Fish Identification, Night, Peak Performance Buoyancy, Search & rescue, Underwater Naturalist, Underwater Navigation, and Wreck Diver.

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Take This Course If You Want to

• Gain more diving experience

• Practice navigation

• Sample different types of diving

Learn How to

• Explore below 18m/60ft

• Improve your buoyancy

• Use a compass

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How to Become an Advanced Open Water Diver

Learn about underwater navigation, deep diving and three types of specialty diving that interest you. After some skill practice with your instructor, you'll make five open water dives. There's no exam because this course is truly about having fun and gaining experience.

INDEPENDENT STUDY

 

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PADI eLearning®

Advanced Open Water Diver eLearning includes interactive lessons on 13 popular specialty dives: altitude, boat, digital underwater imaging, drift, dry suit, fish ID, night, buoyancy, search and recovery, underwater naturalist and wreck diving.

You'll study deep and navigation diving plus three specialties of your choosing.

• eLearning time commitment: 6-8 hours

 

AT THE DIVE SHOP

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With Your Instructor

The course includes five dives: a deep dive below 18m/60f, a navigation dive, and three specialty dives. Gain experience, build confidence and discover your diving abilities.

• Prerequisites: Open Water Diver/Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification)

• Total time commitment: 2-3 days

• Minimum age: 12 years or older

• Depth: The maximum depth depends on your age, but maximum depth is up to 30 metres/100 feet

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