If you are ready to improve your diving skills, then you should take the Advanced Open Water Diver course. This course will improve your navigation, buoyancy, and deep diving skills. It also offers three specialty diving options. When you successfully complete the course, credit will be earned towards specialty certifications.
Adventure dives
Adventure dives are essential to become a fully certified scuba diver. They improve your buoyancy and awareness, as well as your communication skills. You will need to complete five adventure dives before being certified. Your instructor will guide you through the training and help you plan your dives.
Adventure dives, which are the first of each specialty course's dives, count towards the specialty to be completed. By this method, you'll be better able to pick dives that will help you in the long-term. PADI recommends divers that have multiple objectives.
Night dive
Advanced Open Water Divers teaches students about various techniques that make them safer underwater. They learn to control their breathing and adjust their body positions. They also learn how dive lights work and communicate with their buddy. Students will have fun as they practice their skills by playing games in shallow water.
Night diving offers a unique way to see new underwater worlds. Night diving is an entirely different experience from daytime diving. Also, night dives can be more thrilling than daytime dives. Even though night diving may seem intimidating, it is actually not that difficult. Your instructor will teach you the correct techniques and help with any difficulties you might face when diving at night.
Underwater naturalist dive
PADI Underwater Naturalist aims at providing students with the knowledge and skills needed to interact with the underwater ecosystem. Students learn about basic organism groupings and identification, how these species live in different habitats and how to practice environmentally-friendly diving. They are also taught about the importance marine conservation, including biodiversity conservation.
PADI Underwater Naturalist Course is for those divers who have obtained their PADI Open Diver Certification and are looking to gain a deeper understanding of the marine environment. Students learn about coral reefs, marine species, food chains, and relationships between them. The course is one-day long and includes two open water dives.
Peak performance buoyancy dive
You must learn how to remain buoyant when diving. Proper buoyancy is vital as you can fall into the water and get decompression illnesses. Poor buoyancy control can increase your risk of injury from marine life or sharp rocks. This specialty, the PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty, is designed to assist divers in developing proper buoyancy control and avoiding these problems.
PADI Peak Performance is a one-week course that includes both classroom and pool sessions as scuba diving, with the option of two open water dives. It teaches students about buoyancy control and allows them to glide more easily through the water. PPB's goal is to make diving more fun, efficient, and easier.
Maximum depth: 30 m or 100 ft
PADI Advanced Open Water is a course that teaches you how to dive up to 100 feet. This is dangerous because you could get nitrogen narcosis or impaired cognitive function. In addition, mistakes at this depth can be disastrous. You should not dive any deeper than this depth without training.
The Advanced Open Water course is usually completed within a 1.5 to two-day period. The instructor will determine how long the course takes. The course can either be completed online or at the beach. Instructor training is required before taking the course.