Advanced Open Water Diver is a course that will help you take your diving skills to the next step. This course will improve your buoyancy and navigation skills, as well deep diving skills. It also includes three specialty dives of your choice. 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. They can improve your buoyancy and awareness as well your communication skills. You must normally complete five dives of adventure before you are certified. Your instructor will help improve your breathing and kick techniques as well teach you how you can plan your dives.
These dives count towards your specialty and are called adventure dives. This way, you'll be able to choose dives that will be useful in the future. PADI recommends divers with multiple objectives. These could include deep exploration, wildlife research, or exploring wrecks.
Night dive
Advanced Open Water Divers course teaches students how to be safer underwater. They learn how to breathe properly and manage their weight and body positioning. 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 is a wonderful way to discover new underwater worlds. Night diving offers a different experience to daytime diving, making it more interesting than daytime. Although night diving can be a bit scary, night dives are not as difficult as you might think. 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 is designed to give students the knowledge and skills necessary to interact with the aquatic environment. Students learn about basic organism groupings and identification, how these species live in different habitats and how to practice environmentally-friendly diving. They also learn about the importance of marine conservation, including conservation of biodiversity.
The PADI Underwater Naturalist course is for divers who have completed their PADI Open Diver certification and would like to explore the marine environment in a more scientific way. Students learn about coral reefs, marine species, food chains, and relationships between them. The course is 1 day long and involves 2 open water dives.
Peak performance buoyancy diver
The most important skill to master when diving is to maintain buoyancy. Being buoyant is essential as falling into the water can result in decompression illness. Bad buoyancy control can also increase injury to marine life and 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. The course teaches students to control buoyancy and aids them in moving through the water with ease. Ultimately, this PPB program is about making diving easier, more fun, and more efficient.
Maximum depth at 30m/100ft
In the PADI Advanced Open Water course, you will learn the skills needed to dive to a depth of 100 feet. Diving deeper than this is extremely dangerous as you may experience nitrogen narcosis and impaired cognitive function. In addition, mistakes at this depth can be disastrous. Therefore, you should never dive deeper than this without proper training.
The Advanced Open Water course can usually be completed in a period of 1.5 to 2 days. The instructor determines the length of the course. The course can either be completed online or at the beach. Instructor training is necessary before the course can be taken.