Advanced Open Water Diver is a course that will help you take your diving skills to the next step. This course will improve your navigation, buoyancy, and deep diving skills. You can also choose three specialty dives. You'll earn credit toward specialty certifications when you complete the course.
Adventure dives
You must take an adventure dive to become a fully certified diver. They increase your awareness and buoyancy as well as improve your communication skills. You will need to complete five adventure dives before being certified. Your instructor will guide you through the training and help you plan your dives.
These dives count towards your specialty and are called adventure dives. You will be able to select dives that are useful in the future. PADI recommends that you choose dives with a wide variety of objectives, from deep exploration to exploring wrecks and wildlife.
Night dive
In an Advanced Open Water Diver course, students learn about different techniques that help them be safer underwater. They learn how they can breathe correctly and how to maintain their body's alignment. They also learn to communicate with each other and how to use diving lights. Playing games in shallowwater will allow students to practice their skills.
Night diving offers a unique way to see new underwater worlds. Night diving is an entirely different experience from daytime diving. Also, night dives can be more thrilling than daytime dives. Even though night diving may seem intimidating, it is actually not that difficult. An instructor can help you master the techniques and assist you in overcoming any problems that may arise from night diving.
Underwater naturalist dive
PADI Underwater Naturalist Course aims to equip students with the skills and knowledge to interact with aquatic ecosystems. Students learn about basic organism groupings and identification, how these species live in different habitats and how to practice environmentally-friendly diving. They are also taught about the importance marine conservation, including biodiversity conservation.
PADI Underwater Naturalists is for divers who are certified as PADI Open Divers and want to dive deeper into the ocean. The course includes information about coral reefs. marine organisms. food chains. and the relationships between those organisms. The course is 1 day long and involves 2 open water dives.
Peak performance buoyancy dive
You must learn how to remain buoyant when diving. Maintaining buoyancy at all times is crucial as decompression illness can be caused by falling into the sea. Incorrect buoyancy control can also increase the chance of getting injured by sharp rocks and marine life. The PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty is designed to help divers develop proper buoyancy control and avoid these problems.
PADI Peak Performance is a one-week course that includes both classroom and pool sessions as scuba diving, with the option of two open water dives. The course teaches students to control buoyancy and aids them in moving through the water with ease. PPB is about making diving safer, more fun and more efficient.
Maximum depth is 30m/100ft
In the PADI Advanced Open Water course, you will learn the skills needed to dive to a depth of 100 feet. Diving deeper than this is extremely dangerous as you may experience nitrogen narcosis and impaired cognitive function. Mistakes at this depth can lead to disaster. Therefore, you should never dive deeper than this without proper training.
The Advanced Open Water course usually takes between 1.5 and 2 days to complete. The instructor will determine how long the course takes. The course can either be completed online or at the beach. It is important to have instructor training in advance of taking the course.