PADI Advanced Open Water Diver

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. Course price includes gear hire, your own copy of the manual, instructor time and certification.

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:

• Boat Diver
• Drift Diver
• Multilevel Diver
• Night Diver
• Peak Performance Buoyancy
• Underwater Naturalist
• Underwater Videographer
• Underwater Photographer
• Wreck Diver

How long will it take?

• Minimum Open Water Training: five dives over two days

What will I need?

• Adventures in Diving Crew-Pak
• Adventures in Diving Video
• Log Book

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.

PADI Adventure Dives can also credit towards the corresponding PADI Specialty Diver certifications.

Take the next step: PADI Rescue Diver

PADI Adventures in Diving

Divers completing any three of 16 Adventure Dives can earn this new sub-certification. These three dives can be done in one day and the diver may credit the dives toward a PADI Advanced Open Water certification. Examples of Adventure Dives include night, navigation, deep, naturalist, peak performance buoyancy, wreck, photography, drift, search and recovery, fish identification and boatdive. Course price includes gear hire, your own copy of the manual, instructor time and certification.

Duration: Can be completed in one day

Prerequisites: Open Water Diver