The courseAdvanced Open Water Diverit helps you build your self-confidence and improves your diving skills so you feel much more comfortable in the water.
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Exploration, Excitement, Experience!
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That's what the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course is! You don't have to be "advanced" to sign up - it's designed to advance your diving so you can start immediately after earning your PADI Open Water Diver certification.
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Through various Adventure Dives, the course helps you build your self-confidence and expand your skills. You experience different specialty dives as you gain experience under the supervision of your PADI Instructor. As you discover new ways to have fun, you will log your dives and develop different skills.
Get credit! Each Adventure Dive may be credited as the first dive of the corresponding PADI Specialty Diver course.
If you are at least 12 years old and are a PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver, you are ready to take the extra step and enroll in the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course. Younger divers can only participate in certain Adventure Dives - ask your PADI Instructor for information.
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If you are already a PADI Adventure Diver, you only need to complete two more Adventure Dives to earn the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver.
With your instructor, you will organize your learning by choosing from a long list of Adventure Dives. Two dives are required - the Deep and the Underwater Navigation - and you will choose the remaining three, for a total of five dives.
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During the Deep Adventure Dive, you will learn how to plan dives to manage the physiological effects and challenges of deeper dives.
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The Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive sharpens your compass navigation skills and, through the use of kick cycles, visual cues and timing, helps you navigate better.
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The other knowledge and skills you gain depend on your interests and the adventures you have - photography, buoyancy control, fish identification, wreck exploration and many more.
In addition to your basic equipment you will need specialist equipment depending on the Adventure Dive you choose. Your PADI Instructor will explain the equipment you will need, and may recommend more.
PADI ADVENTURE DIVERS
The PADI Adventure Diver course helps you get more out of diving by introducing you to new types of underwater adventures. It's a great opportunity to work, with your Instructor, on improving your diving skills and becoming even more confident.
The PADI Adventure Diver course is a subset of the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course.
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It's a great chance to work with your instructor to improve your skills and build more confidence. Try what you like and enjoy diving even more.
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Ever wanted to try digital underwater photography, fish identification, or scuba diving in a dry suit? In this program, there is a long list of diving adventures that you could participate in
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Complete three Adventure Dives and earn the Adventure Diver certification.
Each Adventure Dive may be credited as the first dive of the corresponding PADI Specialty Diver course.
If you are at least 10 years old and are a PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver and want to take the next step, you should enroll in the Adventure Diver course. Younger divers can only participate in certain Adventure Dives - ask your PADI Instructor for information.
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