Advanced Open Water Diver
The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver is designed to improve your underwater knowledge and skills. The course helps you build confidence in navigation, fine-tune buoyancy skills and introduces you to different diving activities such as night diving, deep diving or search and recovering. After completing your study, you'll make five Adventure Dives: a deep dive (beyond 18m/60ft), a navigation dive, and three additional Adventure Dives.
Availability: Contact us for booking information
Course Requirements:
- Age - 12 years or older
- Have an Open Water Diver Certification (any agency)
- Bring your own scuba gear (rentals available at our shop)
- Purchase and study the course Materials
Course Cost: (No equipment included)
- Instructor and boat fees: $350
- PADI advance Open Water eLearning $216(+TAX) (Add-ons)
- Required Training Materials
- Slate - PADI AOW - Data Carrier
- Surface Marker Buoy (SMB) and finger spool
- Night Dive Lights
- Primary light > 1000 lumens
- Back up light
- Tank beacon light
Course Sessions:
- 1 Classroom Session: Lecture, Knowledge Reviews, Quizzes and Exam
- Ocean Dives: Day 1 (3 Shore Dives)
- Underwater Navigation
- Search and Recovery
- Night Dive (or Peak Performance Buoyancy)
- Ocean Dives: Day 2 (2 Boat Dives)
- Deep Dive
- Underwater Naturalist
Five dives must be completed for certification. There are two required dives, Deep Dive and Underwater Navigation. The other Adventure Dives offered are Underwater Naturalist Dive, Night Diving and Search and Recovery
- During the Deep Adventure Dive, you learn how to plan dives to deal with the physiological effects and challenges of deeper scuba diving.
- The Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive refines your compass navigation skills and helps you better navigate using kick-cycles, visual landmarks and time.
