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Advanced Open Water

PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course

This course is designed for you to take straight after your PADI Open Water Course, it will help increase confidence and your skills enabling you to become more comfortable in the water, 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 will complete five adventure dives that introduce you to:
  • Underwater navigation 
  • Deeper water diving  this will typically anywhere from 18-30 meters/ 60-100 feet
  • A sampler of three more Adventure Dives of your choice
And don’t forget each dive in the PADI Advanced Open Water Course will credit towards the first dive of the corresponding specialty course.

Prerequisites

To take this course, you must be a PADI Open Water Diver  (or qualifying certification from another training organization), and 15 years old (12 for Junior Advanced Open Water Diver)

What You Will Learn

Will depend on the specialties that you choose, but will 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, much more, depending on the Adventure Dives you choose
 

Equipment

All the equipment you will need is included in your course.

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