PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
Enhance your diving skills and open up new adventures — dive deeper, navigate with confidence, and explore three specialties of your choice.
About the Course
The Advanced Open Water Diver course is designed to enhance your diving skills and open up new adventures. You'll complete two required dives—deep diving and underwater navigation—then choose three additional specialty dives based on the local environment and what excites you most, for a total of five dives. Each specialty dive you complete can earn credit toward PADI® specialty certifications.
Here are a few of the many options: Deep, Digital Underwater Photography, Dive Against Debris, Dry Suit, Enriched Air Nitrox, Fish Identification, Night, Peak Performance Buoyancy, Search & Recovery, Underwater Naturalist, Underwater Navigation, and Wreck Diver.
Check out the Frequently Asked Questions section below for a complete list of specialty dive options.
What You'll Learn
- ✓Explore below 18m/60ft
- ✓Improve your buoyancy
- ✓Use a compass to navigate effectively
Certification Requirements
Prerequisites
Open Water Diver / Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification)
Time
PADI eLearning: 6–8 hours. Entire course: 2–3 days
Age
15 years or older (12–14 for Jr. Advanced Open Water Diver)
Depth
Maximum depth depends on your age, but up to 30 metres/100 feet
Health
Good physical health
How to Become an Advanced Open Water Diver
Learn about underwater navigation, deep diving and three types of specialty 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.
PADI eLearning®
Advanced Open Water Diver eLearning includes interactive lessons on 13 popular specialty dives: altitude, boat, digital underwater imaging, drift, dry suit, fish ID, night, buoyancy, search and recovery, underwater naturalist, and wreck diving. You'll study deep and navigation diving plus three specialties of your choosing.
- •eLearning time commitment: 6–8 hours
With Your Instructor
ADDITIONAL COST: Your Dive Shop will charge fees for training and gear rental.
The course includes five dives: a deep dive below 18m/60ft, a navigation dive, and three specialty dives. Gain experience, build confidence, and discover your diving abilities.
- •Total time commitment: 2–3 days
The Javascuba Difference
For more than 20 years, Javascuba has educated divers of all levels, guided by strict PADI standards and uncompromising safety. Beyond training, we've transformed diving from a sport into an adventurous lifestyle — opening the door to the breathtaking beauty of the underwater world.
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Authorized Dive School
20+ Years
PADI Recognized
1,500+
Certified Divers
Advanced Open Water Diver FAQs
Ready to go deeper?
Contact our team to enroll in the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course and ask about pricing.