Advanced Open Water
The PADI® 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 to refine your skills and explore the underwater environment (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 your instructor may select from: Fish Identification, Night, Peak Performance Buoyancy, Search & Recovery, Underwater Naturalist, and Wreck Diver.
Please note that the instructor will have final say with respect to which of these optional dives you complete.
Please note that courses are subject to our learning agreement and terms of service
Availability: In Stock
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 control
- Develop your skills using a compass
How to Become an Advanced Open Water Diver
Learn about underwater navigation, deep diving and three types of specialty diving that interest you. You'll make five open water dives in order to practice and build on the skills developed in your open water course, and learn about other types of specialty diving using PADI eLearning®. This course is truly about having fun and gaining experience.
- Prerequisites
- Open Water Diver/Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification)
- Drysuit Specialty Certification highly encouraged (reach out if you require drysuit training)
- Medically fit for diving (check if you meet the medical requirements with the Diver Medical Form)
- Minimum age: 12 years or older
- A personal mask, snorkel, flashlight, dive computer, and compass are all required for this course - you may rent or purchase these items at a discount for use during your course
- Rentals
While we encourage advanced open water divers to begin building their personal scuba kit, a basic rental package is available at no charge for students to use during their course, this includes everything needed for your ocean weekend except for a mask, snorkel, flashlight, compass, and dive computer - you may purchase or rent these items at a discount for use during your course
- 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
- With Your Instructor
The course includes five dives: a deep dive below 18m/60ft, a navigation dive, and three specialty dives. Gain experience, build confidence and discover your diving abilities.- Total time commitment: 2-3 days (5 ocean dives)
- Depth: The maximum depth depends on your age, but maximum depth is up to 30 metres/100 feet