About the Course
The Advanced Open Water Diver course is all about advancing your skills. You’ll practice navigation and buoyancy, try deep diving and make three adventure dives of your choosing (it’s like a specialty sampler platter). For every adventure dive you complete, you can earn credit toward PADI® specialty certifications.
Here are a few of the many options: Deep, Digital Underwater Photography, Enriched Air Nitrox, Fish Identification, Night, Peak Performance Buoyancy, Search & Recovery, Underwater Naturalist, Underwater Navigation, and Wreck Diver.
How to Become an Advanced Open Water Diver in 2 steps
Learn about underwater navigation, deep diving and three types of adventure diving that interest you. After some skill practice with your instructor, you’ll make five open water dives. There’s no exam because this course is truly about having fun and gaining experience.
Step 1: Independent study with PADI eLearning®
Advanced Open Water Diver eLearning includes interactive lessons on 13 popular adventure dives: wreck, boat, digital underwater imaging, drift, fish ID, night, buoyancy, search and recovery and underwater naturalist.
You’ll study deep and navigation diving plus three specialties of your choosing.
- eLearning time commitment: 6-8 hours
Step 2: With Your Instructor at our dive shop
- Prerequisites: Open Water Diver/Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification)
- Total time commitment: 2-3 days
- Minimum age: 12 years or older
- Depth: The maximum depth depends on your age, but maximum depth is up to 30 metres/100 feet
Frequently Asked Questions about AOW
Advanced Open Water Depth The Advanced Open Water Diver course includes one deep dive. How deep? The answer depends on your age, local regulations and dive site depths.
- The maximum depth for divers 15 or older is 30 metres/100 feet
- For divers 12-15 years old, the maximum depth is 21 metres/70 feet
The depths listed above are the maximum depth, your dive may be shallower. A deep dive is considered anything below 18 metres/60 feet. Put another way, a dive to just 19 metres/62 feet qualifies as a deep dive.
The PADI Advanced Open Water course is like a specialty sampler platter. Review the list below or contact us if you have any question.
As an added bonus, each adventure dive may be credited toward the related specialty certification. For example, if you try a wreck dive during your Advanced Open Water Diver course and like it, you’ll already have one of the 4 dives required for the PADI Wreck Diver certification.
Only these adventure dives are available at our dive center:
- Deep
- Wreck
- Night
- Peak Performance Buoyancy
- Search & Recovery
- Underwater Navigation
- Drift
- Enriched Air
- Fish Identification
- Digital Underwater Imaging
- Boat
- Underwater Naturalist
- Shark Conservation
After this course
- If you like making multiple dives in one day, or taking multi-day dive trips, getting Enriched Air Nitrox certified will unlock longer, deeper dives and shorter surface intervals.
- If you like our wrecks; learn how to safely visit the inside with the Wreck diver course.
- Want to go deeper ? try out the deep diver course.
- Want to improve your confidence and become a better dive buddy? Sign up for the PADI Rescue Diver course.
₱25,000.00
