About This Course

The Advanced Open Water Diver course helps you increase your confidence and build your scuba skills so you can 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’ll hone your skills by completing five adventure dives that introduce you to:

• Underwater navigation
• Deeper water diving (typically anywhere from 18-30 metres/ 60-100 feet)
• An introduction to three more Adventure Dives of your choice

The Fun Part

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.

Try your hand at these Adventure Dives:

• Digital Underwater Photography
• Wreck Diving
• Night Diving
• Search and Recovery
• many mre specialties for you to choose from.

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 more, depending on the Adventure Dives you choose

The SCUBA Gear You Use

You use all the basic scuba gear including your underwater compass.
Depending on which three adventure dives you pick, you may also be introduced to underwater photography equipment , a dive light, lift bags, a dive flag/float or other specialty gear.

The Learning Materials You Need

PADI’s Adventures in Diving Manual and DVD provide information on more than 15 types of specialty diving.You’ll use them as a guidebook to improve your diving skills and prepare for new experiences and adventures.  Or you can elect to take your course via E-Learning.  

For any questions that you may have about the course, contact Narcosis SCUBA Center for more information.

Prerequisites

To take this course, you must be:

A PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization)

Your Next Adventure

After you’ve tried a specialty in the Advanced Open Water Diver course, you’ll probably want to take the Specialty Course and learn more : Taste the Fun and Adventure.