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PADI ADVANCED OPEN WATER DIVER

If you’re an Open Water Diver and wondering what’s next — this is it. The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course is where you crank up the adventure, sharpen your skills, and unlock epic new dive experiences.

We like to call it: Expand Your Underwater Playground

With YAY Scuba’s expert instructors by your side, you’ll get a taste of exciting specialties like wreck diving, night diving, buoyancy finesse, underwater imaging, and so much more. It’s all about building confidence, discovering what kind of diver you want to be, and—let’s be honest—having a blast doing it.

Here’s how it works:

• Knock out your PADI eLearning at your own pace
• Join us for 5 epic Adventure Dives (2 required: deep & navigation)
• Choose 3 more dives based on what thrills you most
• Earn your Advanced certification and open the door to a whole new world of diving!

You don’t need to be a pro. You just need to be curious, a little adventurous, and ready to see what’s possible beneath the surface.

Possible Adventure Dives include:

During the Deep Adventure Dive, you learn how to plan dives to deal with the physiological effects and challenges of deeper scuba diving. The Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive refines your compass navigation skills and helps you better navigate using kick-cycles, compass, visual landmarks and time.

Prerequisites & Requirements

• Age Requirement: 12 years or older
• Course Prerequisites: Open Water Diver/Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification)
• Time Commitment: Approximately 8 hours over two days
• Gear: Compass, DSMB and optionally lights if you are doing the night dive. 

Equipment

Beyond using basic scuba equipment, you’ll need a compass, DSMB and dive knife or dive tool. You’ll also use specialized gear depending on the Adventure Dives you choose. For example, you’d obviously use a dry suit for the Dry Suit Adventure Dive or an underwater camera system during the Photography Adventure Dive. Our PADI Instructor will explain the equipment that you need and may suggest additional gear, such as dive light for night diving or lift bag for search and recovery diving.

Furthermore, we recommend that you have a computer, compass, lights (especially if you elect to do the night dives) and a DSMB. We offer these pacakges for our AOW students at good prices. 

Getting Started

Sign up for Advanced Open Water Diver program below - PADI's eLearning option is included and that will get you started quickly. You study at your own pace through an easy to use, interactive program. You also have access to an online version of the Advanced Open Water Diver manual and can complete sections for other Adventure Dives as directed by your PADI Instructor.

You’ll plan your learning path with your instructor by choosing from the list of Adventure Dives above. The other knowledge and skills you get vary with your interest and the adventures you have – photography, buoyancy control, fish identification, exploring wrecks and many more.

Age limitations

PADI (Junior) Open Water Divers who are at least 12 years old are ready to step up and enroll in an Advanced Open Water Diver course. Young divers may only participate in certain Adventures Dives – check with your PADI Instructor

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Dates

Our Advanced training dates are during the following months:

• June 28-29
• July 19-20
• September 20-21
• September 27-28
• October
• Other dates as available, contact us to see if we can schedule training outside these days.

Ready to start? 

Make sure that you go through the medical form thoroughly then fill in the Diver information form.  

• Medical form  - Page 3 is only needed if physicians medical evaluation is needed per instructions on the form. 
• Diver information forms

The cost is $545 (+tax) and which includes the PADI eLearning and up to 5 dives, but not quarry entry fees or air fills at the quarries.

Sign up today and we will contact you to schedule your Advanced Open Water class: