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. You can also choose three specialty dives. When you finish the course, you will earn credit towards specialty certifications.
Adventure dives
You must take an adventure dive to become a fully certified diver. These dives improve your awareness and buoyancy, as well as communication skills. You must normally complete five dives of adventure before you are certified. Your instructor will assist you in improving your breathing and kicking skills, as well as teaching you how to plan your dives.
Adventure dives are the first in any specialty course and count towards the specialty you're working towards. You'll be able choose dives that you will use in the future. PADI recommends that you choose dives with a wide variety of objectives, from deep exploration to exploring wrecks and wildlife.
Night dive
Students learn different techniques to make it safer underwater in an Advanced Open Water Diver course. They learn how they can breathe correctly and how to maintain their body's alignment. They also learn to communicate with each other and how to use diving lights. 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. It's a totally different experience than diving during daytime, and night dives offer more excitement than daytime. Although night diving can be a bit scary, night dives are not as difficult as you might think. Instructors will help you learn proper techniques and get you through the challenges of night diving.
Underwater naturalist dive
PADI Underwater Naturalist Course aims to equip students with the skills and knowledge to interact with aquatic ecosystems. 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.
For divers who have successfully completed the PADI Open Diver certification, and want to learn more about the marine environment. Students learn about coral reefs, marine species, food chains, and relationships between them. It lasts for one full day and involves two open water diving.
Peak performance buoyancy diver
The most important skill to master when diving is to maintain buoyancy. It's crucial to stay buoyant at all times, since falling into the water without correct buoyancy can lead to decompression illness. Bad buoyancy control can also increase injury to marine life and sharp rocks. PADI Peak Performance buoyancy specialty helps divers to develop proper buoyancy control.
PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy specialty is a class that lasts one week and includes classroom, pool, and optional open water dives. The class also teaches students buoyancy control, which helps them glide through the water better. Ultimately, this PPB program is about making diving easier, more fun, and more efficient.
Maximum depth: 30 m or 100 ft
PADI Advanced Open Water is a course that teaches you how to dive up to 100 feet. Deeper than that is dangerous, as you can experience nitrogen narcosis. Mistakes at this depth can lead to disaster. You should not dive any deeper than this depth without training.
The Advanced Open Water course can usually be completed in a period of 1.5 to 2 days. The instructor will decide the course's duration. You can take the course online or on a local beach. Instructor training is essential before you take the course.