PADI Advanced Open Water Diver

Advance your diving, build confidence and gain experience.

Prerequisites

Proof of a PADI Open Water Qualification
or an equivalent certification from another organization.
Medically fit to dive

Duration

2 days
Can be spread out over a longer period of time, to suit your schedule.

Level

Intermediate Level
Designed for certified Open Water Divers

This course can be completed directly after your open water diver course and is designed to advance your diving, build confidence and gain experience.

What to Expect

We’ll guide you through each step, so you know exactly what’s coming and feel confident before getting in the water.

Complete Your eLearning

Work through the online knowledge development for your five selected Adventure Dives.

Develop Navigation Skills

Complete the required Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive and practise navigating with a compass and natural references.

Experience Deeper Diving

Complete the required Deep Adventure Dive while learning how depth affects you, your air supply and the dive environment.

Complete Three Adventure Dives

Choose three additional dives based on your interests, such as buoyancy, wreck, night or fish identification, and earn your Advanced Open Water Diver certification after completing all five dives.

Includes

Access to Online Theory materials

5 Qualifying dives (sea dives)

Hire of Scuba Equipment for the duration of the course

Airfills

Registration with PADI International Limited

Certificate

About This Course

During this course, you’ll revise how to use scuba equipment, manage buoyancy, communicate underwater, and complete real dive skills with your instructor.

What you will learn:

Complete five Adventure Dives, including Deep Diving and Underwater Navigation.
Learn how to safely plan and manage deeper dives.
Improve your compass skills and navigate using landmarks, kick cycles and time.
Choose three additional Adventure Dives based on your interests, such as buoyancy, photography, fish identification or wreck diving.
Qualified Advanced Open Water Divers may dive to 30 metres.
Junior Advanced Open Water Divers aged 12–14 may dive to 21 metres.