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 improve your navigation, buoyancy, and deep diving skills. You can also choose three specialty dives. You'll earn credit toward specialty certifications when you complete the course.
Adventure dives
It is essential to take adventure dives in order to be a certified scuba diver. They will improve your buoyancy, awareness, and communication skills. You must normally complete five dives of adventure before you are certified. Your instructor will teach you planning and breathing techniques and how to improve your breathing.
Adventure dives are required for all specialty courses. They count towards the specialty that you are working towards. By doing this, you can choose dives which will prove useful for the future. PADI suggests divers choose dives with many objectives. This includes deep exploration and exploring wrecks and wildlife.
Night dive
Advanced Open Water Divers teaches students about various techniques that make them safer underwater. They also learn how to properly breathe and how to manage their body position and weight. They also learn to communicate with each other and how to use diving lights. They will have a lot of fun playing in shallow waters and practicing their skills.
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 may seem intimidating, it is actually not that difficult. You will learn the proper techniques and overcome any difficulties associated with night diving.
Underwater naturalist dive
PADI Underwater Naturalist aims at providing students with the knowledge and skills needed to interact with the underwater ecosystem. 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 diving
It is important to know how to keep your buoyancy when diving. It's crucial to stay buoyant at all times, since falling into the water without correct buoyancy can lead to decompression illness. 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 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. PPB's goal is to make diving more fun, efficient, and easier.
Maximum depth: 30 m or 100 ft
You will be able to dive down to 100 feet with the PADI Advanced Open Water course. Deeper than that is dangerous, as you can experience nitrogen narcosis. In addition, mistakes at this depth can be disastrous. Without proper training, you shouldn't dive further than this.
The Advanced Open Water course is usually completed within a 1.5 to two-day period. The instructor determines the length of the course. The course can either be completed online or at the beach. It is important to have instructor training in advance of taking the course.