1. ADVANCED OPEN WATER COURSE
Advanced Open Water Course Review
Advanced Open Water Course advantages:
The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course offers the opportunity to open up to new dive
areas, like diving deeper, penetrating shipwrecks, diving at night, taking underwater photos and
many more. An additional benefit is diving more guided dives with a PADI instructor, brushing
on our basic skills, correcting mistakes, gaining comfort and confidence and generally becoming
better, more experienced divers.
Advanced Open Water course Prerequisites:
-A PADI Open Water Diver or an equivalent level of training from a recognized dive
organization.
-15 years or older (12 for Junior PADI Advanced Open Water Diver)
The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course structure :
The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course is a little bit more flexible than the Open Water
Course. In order to complete a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course you’ll need to
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2. complete 5 different Adventure dives. Each Adventure dive requires a knowledge review
session completed by you, reviewed and elaborated by your instructor, and an actual Adventure
dive completed. There are no exams or quizzes.
PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course dives:
In order to be certified as an advanced diver you complete the following-
1. Deep dive training -follow your instructor to a maximum depth of 30m/100ft and learn about
deep dive procedures nitrogen narcosis and more.
2. Navigation dive - learn the basic navigation techniques to become a more independent
diver.
These two dives are mandatory. In addition, complete three of the following adventure dives:
1.Nitrox Diving
2.Boat diving
3.Diver Propulsion Vehicle
4.Drift dive
5.Dry Suit Diving
6. Multilevel and Computer Diving
7.Night Dive
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3. 8.Peak Performance Buoyancy Dive
Learn How to take amazing underwater images-PADI Advenaced Open Water Course-
photography Adventure Dive
10.Underwater Naturalist
11.Underwater Photography
12.Underwater Digital Photography
13.Underwater Videography
14. Wreck Diving
15.Altitude Diving
Explore Shipwrecks and watch nature taking over. Wreck Adventure Dive – Advanced Open
Water Course
As its unlikely to find all those adventure dives available at one dive destination, you can pick
an adventure dive at a different dive destination each time, at random order and complete your
Advanced Open Water Diver Course once finishing the fifth dive. Make sure you obtain the
advanced open water course referral forms if you choose this option.
What’s next?
Once you’ve completed you advanced open water diver course you can dive to a maximum
30m/100ft. unless local guidelines specify differently you are allowed to independently dive with
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4. a certified buddy.
To become a better diver, increase your knowledge and be able to save yourself and others in
an unlikely event of a dive accident (which you’ll learn to prevent from happening) sign up for
a Rescue Diver Course, and an Emergency First Responder Course
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