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Take your SCUBA diving to the next level! Literally!
With the Advanced Open Water Certification, not only will you improve upon the skills you learned in Open Water, but you will learn new techniques. Your new techniques are 5 learning focuses, 3 of which you get to choose!
Want to explore the reef at night? What about descending to see an historic shipwreck? How about learning to identify the fish species you will see on your dives? These are just some of the many options advanced divers get to choose from.
The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course is designed to improve your knowledge, skills, and experience in diving.
After your knowledge development (academic portion) you will make five adventure dives in specialty areas of diving. Two are required of all divers- deep diving (beyond 60 feet) and navigation- and three other distinctive types of diving are chosen that interest you.
The specialties you can choose from include:
- Deep
- Digital Underwater Photography
- Dive Against Debris
- Enriched Air Nitrox
- Fish Identification
- Night
- Peak Performance Buoyancy
- Search & Recovery
- Underwater Naturalist
- Underwater Navigation
- Wreck Diver