Advance Open Water Course is the next step up from the Open Water Course. This course is highly recommended for newly qualified Open Water Divers as well as for divers with many logged dives already. The PADI Advanced Open Water Course involves students in various underwater tasks that broaden their awareness of the environment and their capabilities as divers. It enables you to continue your diving enjoyment to greater depths and enhance your diving skills, knowledge and qualification. PADI's Advanced Open Water Diver Course is one of the most popular because it offers such diversity.

Why Advanced Open Water Diver?

After your five dives, you'll be more experienced, feel more comfortable in the water and simply enjoy diving more because you better understand the underwater environment.

What do I need to start?

• PADI Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization)
• Minimum age: 15 (12 for PADI Junior Advanced Open Water Diver)

What will I do?

This certification includes five Adventure Dives, including the Deep Adventure dive, the Underwater Navigator Adventure Dive and three of the following:

• Altitude Diver Boat Diver
• Drift Diver Deep Diver
• Dry Suit Diver Dive Propulsion Vehicle
• Multilevel Diver Night Diver
• Peak Performance Buoyancy Search and Recovery
• Underwater Naturalist Underwater Videographer
• Underwater Photographer Underwater Navigator
• AWARE Fish Identification Wreck Diver

How long will it take?

• Recommended Course Hours: 15
• Minimum Open Water Training: five dives over two days