Advanced Open Water Diver is a course that will help you take your diving skills to the next step. This course will improve buoyancy, navigation, deep diving, and other skills. It also includes three specialty dives of your choice. You'll earn credit toward specialty certifications when you complete the course.
Adventure dives
For a full certification as a scuba diver, adventure diving is essential. They can improve your buoyancy and awareness as well your communication skills. You need to have completed 5 adventures dives in order to become certified. During the training, your instructor will help you refine your breathing and kicking techniques, and teach you how to plan your dives.
Adventure dives are required for all specialty courses. They count towards the specialty that you are working towards. You'll be able choose dives that you will use in the future. PADI suggests divers choose dives with many objectives. This includes deep exploration and exploring wrecks and wildlife.
Night dive
Advanced Open Water Diver Course teaches students about safe diving techniques. They learn how they can breathe correctly and how to maintain their body's alignment. They also learn how to use diving lights and communicate with their buddy. Playing games in shallowwater will allow students to practice their skills.
Night diving is an excellent way to explore new underwater worlds. Night diving offers a different experience to daytime diving, making it more interesting than daytime. Even though night diving is scary, it's not difficult. Your instructor will teach you the correct techniques and help with any difficulties you might face when diving at night.
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 Naturalists is for divers who are certified as PADI Open Divers and want to dive deeper into the ocean. The course covers coral reefs, marine organisms and food chains as well as the relationships between different species. The course lasts for one day and involves two open water dives.
Peak performance buoyancy diving
You must learn how to remain buoyant when diving. 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. This specialty, the PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty, is designed to assist divers in developing proper buoyancy control and avoiding these problems.
The PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty is a one-week class that includes classroom and pool sessions, as well as two optional open water dives. The course teaches students to control buoyancy and aids them in moving through the water with ease. PPB is about making diving safer, 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. 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 can usually be completed in a period of 1.5 to 2 days. The instructor will determine how long the course takes. The instructor can instruct the course online, or at a beach near you. Before you can take the course, it is important that you have instructor training.