Advanced Open Water

Course Overview
The Adventures in Diving program offers both the Adventure Diver and Advanced Open Water Diver certifications. If you complete any three adventure dives, you can earn your PADI Adventure Diver certification. If you complete your Deep Adventure Dive, Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive and three Adventure Dives for a total of five, you can earn your Advanced Open Water Diver certification.

What does it involve
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 will I do
This certification includes five Adventure Dives, including the Deep Adventure Dive, the Underwater Navigator plus any three of the following:

National Geographic Diver
Surface Marker Diver
Nitrox Diver
Altitude Diver Boat Diver
Drift Diver Deep Diver
Dry Suit Diver Dive Propulsion Vehicle
Multilevel Diver Night Diver
Rebreather Diver
Peak Performance Buoyancy Search and Recovery
Underwater Naturalist Underwater Videographer
Underwater Photographer Underwater Navigator
AWARE Fish Identification Wreck Diver

Where can I go from here
PADI Advanced Open Water Divers at least 15 years of age can enroll in PADI Wreck or Deep Diver Specialty courses and continue on to the PADI Rescue Diver or Junior Rescue Diver course.

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