Advanced Diver

ADVANCED OPEN WATER DIVER

We like to call it expand your adventures in diving! Enroll in the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course to elevate your diving skills, explore new dive sites and undertake new exciting activities. YAY Scuba! instructors will teach you about PADI specialties and diving activities that are of particular interest. The course is designed to improve your underwater knowledge and skills.

You can enroll immediately after earning your PADI Open Water Diver certification regardless of your skill level. The course helps you build confidence in navigation, fine-tune buoyancy skills and introduces you to different diving activities such as wreck diving, night diving or underwater imaging. After completing your eLearning, you'll make five Adventure Dives, two that are required, a deep dive (beyond 18m/60F), a navigation dive, and three additional Adventure Dives of your choice to earn your certification.

Possible Adventure Dives include:

Wreck diving (non-penetration) - popular
Search and recovery - popular
Peak Performance Buoyancy - popular
Night diving - popular
Boat diving
Shore diving
Underwater photography

Academic

You'll plan your learning path with your instructor by choosing from a long list of Adventure Dives. There are two required dives - Deep and Underwater Navigation - and you choose the other three, for a total of five dives.
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, 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

Equipment

Beyond using basic scuba equipment, you’ll need a compass 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 a 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.

Included

Knowledge review
Advanced Open Water Diver Manual
Open water dives
Certification card
Tanks and weights

Not included (student supplied):

Mask, snorkel, fins
Buoyancy Control Device (BCD)
Regulator/alternate air source
Depth gauge/timer or computer
Wetsuit with hoods and gloves (Recommend 7mm)
Compass
Audible surface signal (whistle) - optional
Surface signal (safety tube) - optional
Cutting tool - optional
Slate - optional
Quarry entry fees

We can assist with rental equipment if needed.

Getting Started

Sign up for Advanced Open Water Diver program below - PADI's eLearning option is included and that will get you started quickly. The web-based system lets you learn about seven of the most popular Adventures Dives:

Deep Adventure Dive - Required
Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive - Required
Boat
Night - Popular
Peak Performance Buoyancy - Popular
Underwater Naturalist
Wreck Adventure Dives - Popular

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 a long list of Adventure Dives. There are two required dives – Deep and Underwater Navigation – and you choose the other three, for a total of five dives, for example from the list above.

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, visual landmarks and time.

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.

Dates

Our next Advanced training are on:

July 29-30
Sept 9-10
February 17-24 - Bonaire

Ready to start?

Make sure that you go through the medical form, if you answer yes to any questions, we will need a medical clearance from your doctor before you can start.

Medical form - Page 3 is only needed if physicians medical evaluation is needed.

If your medical form is completed and there are no issues, then please fill in the necessary information in this form:

Diver information forms

Finally, to start your Advanced Open Water Adventure, sign up today:

The cost is $495 (+tax) and which includes the PADI eLearning and up to 5 dives, but not quarry entry fees or air for local dives.

Book your spot in the next scheduled class: