PADI ADVANCED OPEN WATER COURSE
ADVANCE YOUR DIVING
If you are looking for the ultimate adventure, you found it! The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Programme will fine-tune your scuba skills, enable you to dive deeper than 18m/30ft and allows you to explore all that diving has to offer. Get a taste of what you like and enjoy scuba diving more than ever.
DIVE INTO THE UNKNOWN
Become a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
COURSE INFORMATION
Become a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver today and experience
thrilling scuba adventures.
If you’re an Open Water Diver or an Adventure Diver and you want to bring your skills to the next level, then the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course might be right for you.
This programme is the perfect opportunity to gain additional
experience and expand your scuba skills through different Adventure Dives, under the guidance of a PADI professional. You’ll plan your learning path with your instructor by choosing from a long list of Adventure Dives.
The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course consists of five knowledge development sessions and five adventure dives. Two Core dives – Deep Dive and Underwater Navigation and the final three can be selected from the following list as part of the course:
ADVENTURE DIVES
• Peak Performance Buoyancy (minimum 10 years old)
• Wreck (minimum 12 years old)
• Digital Underwater Imaging (minimum 12 years old)
• Search and Recovery (minimum 12 years old)
• Underwater Naturalist (minimum 10 years old)
• Fish Identification (minimum 10 years old)
• Night (minimum 12 years old)
• Drift (minimum 12 years old)
• Boat (minimum 10 years old)
• Enriched Air (Nitrox) (minimum 12 years old)
• Delayed Surface Marker Buoy (minimum 12 years old)
• Dive Against Derbis (AWARE) (minimum 12 years old)
• Shark Conservation (AWARE) (minimum 12 years old)
After successfully completing the programme, you’ll receive the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Certification.
This certification will allow you to dive anywhere in the world to a maximum depth of 30m/99ft (younger than 15 years are restricted to 21m/69ft), without the assistance of a PADI professional.
If you’re already an Adventure Diver, you only need to complete two more Adventure Dives to earn the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Certification.
Get credit-Each Adventure Dive may credit toward the first dive of the corresponding PADI Specialty Diver Course.
If you’ve already taken a Specialty Diver Course, ask your instructor if you’ve earned credit for an Adventure Dive.
The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course consists of two main phases:
Step 1 Knowledge Development
The knowledge development portion of the course is designed to
expand your knowledge of scuba diving depending on you interests.
The Theory consists of five chapters from the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver manual/ Thinking Like a Diver Knowledge Development Section and five corresponding knowledge reviews.
There’s no exam required for the completion of this course.
There are two mandatory chapters – Deep Dive and Underwater Navigation. In the Deep Dive chapter, you learn how to plan dives and how to deal with the physiological effects of deeper scuba diving. In the Underwater Navigation chapter, you will learn more about compass navigation skills and how to better navigate underwater.
You choose the other three chapters, so the other knowledge you get vary with your interest and the adventure dives you have chosen.
You can do the knowledge section at your own pace and when it’s convenient for you. You can complete the academics online, study independent or in our ‘classroom’.
Step 2 Open Water Dives
In this portion of the course you will complete five Adventure Dives from the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course.
The dives in the Advanced Open Water Diver Course are very different from those in your Open Water Diver Course.
The Adventure Dives are similar to a regular dive, except that you focus on a particular diving specialty.
There are two required dives – Deep Dive and Underwater Navigation Dive – In the Deep Dive, you will dive deeper, between 18-30m/60-99ft while dealing with the physiological effects and challenges of deeper scuba diving.
In the Underwater Navigation Dive you will work on compass navigation skills and practice navigation skills using kick-cycles, visual landmarks and time.
You choose the other three dives, for a total of five dives. The other skills you get vary with your interest and the adventures you have chosen. In those dives, you will have a chance to practice what you have already learned in the knowledge development section of the course, while exploring the beauty of the underwater world.
TO ENROLL
To enroll in a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course/Junior Advanced Open Water Diver Course you must be 15/12 years or older, you need to be in good physical health and have adequate swimming skills.
You must hold a valid Open Water Diver License or Adventure Diver License (or equivalent certification from another organisation).
Young divers may only participate in certain Adventures Dives – check with your PADI Instructor.
DURATION
Takes two to three days to complete the course. Depending on your pace of learning.
GETTING STARTED
All of our PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Courses are private or semi private. We are generally available at most times. Email or book it straight away to enroll in the course.
Short on time? The PADI Adventure Scuba Diver Course might be right for you.
GOOD TO KNOW
Most frequent questions and answers
Please note you cannot dive 24 hours before flying.
Children who are 12 or older can participate in the PADI Junior Advanced Open Water programme.
You will need to go through the PADI Medical Questionnaire to see if you are fit to dive. Please download the form through here (PADI MEDICAL STATEMENT). The medical questionnaire has to be completed and might indicate a contraindication to check with your doctor.
Firstly, you should know that diving insurance is mandatory. You can either purchase your own insurance, or you can purchase Divers Alert Network (DAN) insurance from us directly for 15USD per week.
The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course is taught in English, German, Spanish, French and Bulgarian.
The learning materials are available in a wide variety of languages.
We will provide all the required equipment. You simply need swimwear, towel and sunglasses.
If you prefer, you can do your theoretical part any time before your arrival. This allows you to study at home before you arrive. You can easily do this at any time by participating in the PADI eLearning Programme. This saves you precious vacation time so you can fit in some other activities too.
PADI stands for Professional Association of Diving Instructors.
PADI is globally regarded as the world’s leading training agency.
The PADI System of diver education is based on progressive
training that introduces skills, safety-related information and
local environmental knowledge to student divers.
PADI certifications are recognised worldwide and are valid for life. Visit their website here: PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DIVING INSTRUCTORS
If you haven’t dived for over 12 months and you are a relatively inexperienced diver, then we recommend you complete a refresher programme, such as the Scuba Refresh Programme (link).
This can be done on the same day as your PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course.
We will practice in confined water to refresh some of the skills you may have forgotten before starting the course.
If you can’t wait to begin your adventure, take this certification and experience unforgettable PADI Adventure Dives