That’s what the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course is all about. You don’t have to be “advanced” to take it – it’s designed to advance your diving. The course helps build confidence and expand your scuba skills through different Adventure Dives. You try out different specialties while gaining experience under the supervision of your PADI Instructor. You log dives and develop capabilities as you find new ways to have fun scuba diving.
PADI (Junior) Open Water Divers who are at least 12 years old are ready to step up and enroll in an Advanced Open Water Diver course. Young divers may only participate in certain Adventures Dives – check with your PADI Instructor.
If you’re already an Adventure Diver, you only need to complete two more Adventure Dives to earn the Advanced Open Water Diver certification.
You’ll plan your learning path with your instructor by choosing from a long list of Adventure Dives. There are two required dives – Deep and Underwater Navigation – and we will select the other three, for a total of five dives.
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.
The other knowledge and skills you get vary with your interest and the adventures you have – dry suit, buoyancy control, search & recovery, exploring wrecks and many more.
What is included?
Price includes all PADI Materials and the PADI PIC (License Card). You are required to read and complete knowledge reviews for the dives you are undertaking. There are NO exams, it is five prescriptive dives with our top professionals. Two are mandatory dives: Deep (30 metres) and Navigation. Other dives undertaken in the UK include: Wreck, Search and Recovery, Peak Performance Buoyancy, Multi-level, or Underwater Photography. Day one dives are normally conducted at Wraysbury Training Lake. Day two would be Vobster Quay. Price includes loan of school scuba equipment as needed. This course is designed to facilitate the diver taking responsibility for their own diving and taking your skills to the next level. Diving with a pro team, you will learn lots of additional tips and information.
Did you know you could SAVE money if completing the PADI Advanced Diver on a Divecrew Holiday.