PADI Advanced Open Water Course

This course will help you increase your confidence and build your scuba skills so you can become more comfortable in the water and a better dive buddy. This is a great way to get more dives under your belt while continuing to learn under the supervision of your PADI Instructor. This course builds on what you’ve learned and develops new capabilities by introducing you to new activities and new ways to have fun scuba diving. You’ll hone your skills by completing five adventure dives that introduce you to:
- Underwater navigation
- Deeper water diving (18-30 metres / 60-100 feet)
- Peak Performance Buoyancy
- Any two more Adventure Dives of your choice

THE FUN PART: YOUR CHOICE

• One reason you’ll love the Advanced Open Water Diver course is that you and your instructor choose from 15 types of Adventure Dives to complete your course. You can try your hand at digital underwater photography, wreck diving, diving with underwater scooters, peak performance buoyancy and much more. Each Adventure Dive in the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course may credit toward the first dive of the corresponding PADI Specialty Diver course.

PREREQUSITES: To take this course, you must be:

• A PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization)
• 15 years old (12 for Junior Advanced Open Water Diver. 10-11 can qualify for Junior Adventure Diver.)
• START THE ADVANCED WATER COURSE ONLINE PADI eLearning®.

WHAT YOU LEARN

The knowledge and skills you get in the Advanced Open Water Diver course vary with your interest and the adventures you have, but include:
- Practical aspects of deep diving
- Physiological effects of deeper scuba diving.
- More ways to use your underwater compass
- How to navigate using kick-cycles, visual landmarks and time
- How to better use your dive computer and electronic Recreational Dive PlannerTM (eRDPTM)
- And much more, depending on the Adventure Dives you choose