When you're ready to take your diving skills to the next level, you should consider completing an Advanced Open Water Diver course. This course will enhance your buoyancy, navigation, as well as deep diving skills. It also offers three specialty diving options. When you finish the course, you will earn credit towards specialty certifications.
Adventure dives
To become a certified scuba diver, you must complete adventure dives. 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 guide you through the training and help you plan your dives.
Adventure dives are the first in any specialty course and count towards the specialty you're working towards. This way, you'll be able to choose dives that will be useful in the future. PADI recommends divers that have multiple objectives.
Night dive
Advanced Open Water Diver Course teaches students about safe diving techniques. They also learn how to properly breathe and how to manage their body position and weight. They will also learn how to communicate with their buddy by using diving lights. Students will have lots of fun while practicing their skills in shallow-water games.
Night diving is a great way to discover a new underwater world. It's a totally different experience than diving during daytime, and night dives offer more excitement than daytime. Even though night diving is scary, it's not difficult. You will learn the proper techniques and overcome any difficulties associated with night diving.
Underwater naturalist dive
The PADI Underwater Naturalist course aims to provide students with the necessary knowledge and skills to interact with the aquatic ecosystem. Students learn about basic organism groupings and identification, how these species live in different habitats and how to practice environmentally-friendly diving. They learn about the importance conservation of biodiversity and marine conservation.
PADI Underwater Naturalist is for divers who have received their PADI Open Diver certificate and wish to study the marine environment more scientifically. The course covers coral reefs, marine organisms and food chains as well as the relationships between different species. 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 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. This PPB program aims to make diving more fun, easier, and more efficient.
Maximum depth at 30m/100ft
PADI Advanced Open Water will teach you the skills required to dive to depths of 100 feet. It is dangerous to dive deeper than 100 feet. You could experience impaired cognitive function and nitrogen narcosis. This depth is also dangerous for making mistakes that can prove to be fatal. It is best to not go any deeper than this level without proper 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. You can choose to take the course on-line or at your local beach. It is important to have instructor training in advance of taking the course.