This course can be taken after completing the PADI Open Water Diver certification. It's titled PADI Advanced Open Water Diver because it advances your diving knowledge & skills.
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 Aquatic World PADI Instructor. You log dives and develop capabilities as you find new ways to have fun scuba diving.
This course cost includes your Advanced Open Water Manual & Slate
Get credit! Each Adventure Dive may credit 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.
PADI (Junior) Open Water Divers who are at least 12 years old are ready to step up and enroll in an Advanced Open Water Diver course. Young divers may only participate in certain Adventures Dives – check with your PADI Instructor.
You’ll plan your learning path with your Aquatic World Instructor by choosing from a long list of Adventure Dives. There are two required dives – Deep and Underwater Navigation – then you choose the other three with your instructor, for a total of five dives.
The other knowledge and skills you get will vary with your interest and the adventure dives you choose, here at Aquatic World we offer the following specialty certifications;
Beyond using basic scuba equipment, you’ll need :
You’ll also use specialized gear depending on the Adventure Dives you choose
For example, you’d obviously use a dry suit for the Dry Suit Adventure Dive or a Fish Identification Slate for your fish Identification class.
Your PADI Instructor will explain the equipment that you need and may suggest additional gear, such as dive light for night diving or lift bag for search and recovery diving.