Advanced Open Water Diver
The Course
Exploration, excitement, and experiences! That’s what the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course is all about. You don’t have to be “advanced” to take it – it’s designed to advance your diving, so you can start right after earning your PADI Open Water Diver certification. The course helps build confidence and expand your scuba skills through different Adventure Dives. You try out different specialties while gaining experience under the supervision of your International Scuba Instructor. You log dives and develop capabilities as you find new ways to have fun scuba diving.
Get credit! Each Adventure Dive may be credited toward the first dive of the corresponding PADI Specialty Diver Course. If you’ve already taken a specialty diver course, ask your instructor if you’ve earned credit for an Adventure Dive.
Availability: Contact us for booking information
The Learning
You’ll plan your learning path with your instructor by choosing from a long list of Adventure Dives. There are two required dives – Deep and Underwater Navigation – and you choose the other three, for a total of five dives. You may choose from these dives: Altitude, Buoyancy, Search and Recovery, Rescue, Night, Photography, Enriched Air, and others.
During the Deep Adventure Dive, you learn how to plan dives to deal with the physiological effects and challenges of deeper scuba diving, 60 to 100 feet. The Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive refines your compass navigation skills and helps you better navigate using kick-cycles, visual landmarks, and time.
The other knowledge and skills you get vary with your interest and the adventures you have – photography, buoyancy control, night diving, exploring wrecks, search and recovery, delayed surface marker buoy and more.
We can conduct the dives at The Blue Hole in Santa Rosa, NM or Homestead Crater in Utah or even at the Aurora Reservoir here locally. There is also the option to conduct these dives on one of our upcoming trips.
Course tuition includes:
- PADI Advanced Open Water eLearning
- Open water training dives with our professional instructors
- Certification processing
- PADI certification eCard
| Specialty | Minimum Age | Required Hours | Training | Prerequisite |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| . | ||||
| Night Diver | 12 | 12 | 3 Dives on 2 Nights | Jr Open Water or Open Water |
| Deep Diver | 15 | 12 | 4 Dives on 2 Days | Advanced Open Water |
| Underwater Navigator | 10 | 24 | 3 Dives on 2 Days | Jr Open Water or Open Water |
| Underwater Photographer | 10 | 12 | 2 Dives on 1 Day | Jr Open Water or Open Water |
| Search and Recovery Diver | 15 | 24 | 4 Dives on 2 Days | Advanced Open Water or Advanced Plus |
| Multilevel Diver | 12 | - | 2 Dives on 1 Day | Jr Open Water or Open Water |
| Drift Diver | 12 | - | 2 Dives on 1 Day | Jr Open Water or Open Water |
| Underwater Naturalist | 10 | - | 2 Dives on 1 Day | Jr Open Water or Open Water |
| Boat Diver | 10 | - | 2 Dives on 1 Day | Jr Open Water or Open Water |
