Advanced Open Water Diver
This course can be taken after completing the PADI Open Water Diver certification. It's titled Advanced Open Water Diver because it advances your diving knowledge & skills.
Description
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, so you can start right after earning your PADI Open Water Diver certification. 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.
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.
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 Marin Diving Center staff.
Academic / Open Water
First, you will need to purchase the PADI Advanced Open Water eLearning and complete the chapters on Deep Diving and Underwater Navigation. You also get to choose three other subjects from the list at the bottom of this page.
Then, you will complete five open water dives. There are two required dives – Deep and Underwater Navigation – and you choose the other three from our list.
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 diving, buoyancy control, fish identification, exploring wrecks, and many more.
You may be able to get college credit for the Advanced Open Water Diver course.
Electives
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Fish Identification Search and Recovery Boat Diving* Night Diving Underwater Naturalist Altitude Diving** Peak Performance Buoyancy Dry Suit Diving (additional training required) Wreck Diving** - * Tahoe and the Channel Islands Only; ** Tahoe Only
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