Advanced Open Water Diver



Discover the beauty of the Ocean

Explore five exciting speciality areas of diving, and find out where your passion lies. You will learn about underwater navigation, deep diving and three further types of speciality diving that interest you. 

 

You'll make five open water dives without examination because this course is about having fun and gaining experience.


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About the Course

Explore five exciting specialty areas of diving, and find out where your true underwater passion lies. You will learn about underwater navigation, deep diving and three further types of speciality diving that interest you. 

 

You'll make five open water dives and there's no exam because this course is truly about having fun and gaining experience.


Take this course if you want to:

  • Gain more diving experience
  • Explore beyond 18m
  • Practice navigation
  • Sample different types of diving


You will learn how to:



  • Explore below 18m
  • Improve your buoyancy
  • Use a compass


How to earn your Advanced Open Water Certification

Independent Learning

Step 1  PADI eLearning

Advanced Open Water Diver eLearning includes interactive lessons on 13 popular speciality dives.

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You'll study Deep and Navigation diving, alongside Peak Performance Buoyancy, Wreck and Delayed Surface Marker Buoy, and the all important "Thinking Like a Diver" chapter.

 

  • eLearning time commitment: 6 - 8 hours


At Open Water

Step 2  With Your Instructor


With your PADI Instructor you will complete five open water dives: a deep dive below 18m, a navigation dive and the speciality dives you have studied from step 1. Gain experience, build confidence and discover your diving abilities.

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  • Prerequisites: Open Water Diver/Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification) and be medically fir for diving.
  • Time commitment: 2 days.
  • Minimum age: 10 years or older.
  • Depth: The maximum depth depends on age, but the maximum depth is up to 30 metres.


Additional Requirements

Scuba diving requires a minimum level of health and fitness. Chronic health conditions, certain medications and/or recent surgery may require you to get written approval from a physician before diving.

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Avoid disappointment, download and review the Diver Medical form to ensure you won’t need a physician’s approval to dive before enrolling in a scuba course. Instructors, divemasters and dive shop staff are not physicians and should not be asked for medical advice; only medical professionals can give medical clearance to dive.

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If you (or your physician) have questions about medical fitness to dive, contact the experts at Divers Alert Network (DAN).

Course prerequisites: Open Water Diver/Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification) and medically fit for diving

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Minimum age: 10

Divers certified between the ages of 10 - 14 earn a Junior Diver certification

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Advanced Open Water Depth: The 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

For divers 10-14 years old, the maximum depth is 21 metres

The depths listed above are the maximum depth, your dive may be shallower. A deep dive is considered anything below 18 metres. To put it another way, a dive to just 19 metres still qualifies as a deep dive.

This course requires both knowledge development and in-water training for certification. 

Below are the additional costs to complete your certification.

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As a certified diver now, you will need to rent or buy your basic scuba gear, including a regulator, buoyancy control device (BCD), fins, wetsuit/drysuit and boots.  Cylinders and weights are included in the course cost.

We always require students to provide their own masks and snorkel. We sell these in our dive centre and you can purchase these on our online shop or in the dive centre. 

The inland open water dive sites we use charge an entry fee ranging from £15 - £24 per day.