PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course
The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course can be taken after completing the PADI Open Water Diver certification. It’s titled PADI Advanced Open Water Diver because it advances your diving knowledge & skills.
The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver eLearning is designed to improve your underwater knowledge and skills. You can enrol immediately after earning your PADI Open Water Diver certification regardless of your skill level.
The course helps you build confidence in navigation, and fine-tune buoyancy skills and introduces you to different diving activities such as wreck diving, night diving or underwater imaging. After completing your eLearning, you’ll make five Adventure Dives: a deep dive (beyond 18m), a navigation dive, and three additional Adventure Dives of your choice to earn your certification.
Advanced Course Pre-Requisite:
Have completed the PADI Open Water Diver / Junior Open Water Diver or Equivalent Certification.
A valid Dive Medical if over the age of 40 years old
Course Details:
- PADI Online Theory
- In the PADI Advanced Open Water Dives, You will complete a total of five dives covering skills such as navigation, deep diving, boat diving, search and recovery, night diving, wreck diving, drift diving, and buoyancy.
- The PADI Advanced course runs over two weekends.
Day 1
- Today you will do three shore dives. One of these will be a navigation dive, where you will learn more compass skills as well as natural navigation, A Peak performance dive, and an awesome night dive.
Day 2
- You will do two boat dives today from Portsea. One will be a Deep Dive, where you get to see what it’s like when you go down to 30m. If the conditions are suitable, you will also do a wreck dive to a submarine. Otherwise, a drift dive where you relax as the current takes you along the dive site.
Course Includes:
- PADI Advanced Open Water online theory.
- Three shore dives.
- Two boat dives.
- Air fills.
- Certification Fees and Instruction.
What do I need?
You will need to supply your diving gear. Such as hardware which is a BCD, regulators, a dive computer, and scuba tanks.
You will also need all the essentials, which are a wetsuit or drysuit, mask, snorkel, boots, and fins.
As an advanced diver, you need to own a primary torch and a backup torch, dive slate, dive Knife and a surface marker buoy with a reel.
Hardware is available for Hire.