If you are ready to improve your diving skills, then you should take the Advanced Open Water Diver course. This course will improve your navigation, buoyancy, and deep diving skills. It also offers three specialty diving options. You'll earn credit toward specialty certifications when you complete the course.
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 will need to complete five adventure dives before being certified. Your instructor will help improve your breathing and kick techniques as well teach you how you can plan your dives.
Adventure dives are the first in any specialty course and count towards the specialty you're working towards. By doing this, you can choose dives which will prove useful for the future. PADI recommends divers that have multiple objectives.
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. The students will have fun practicing their skills in shallow water by playing games.
Night diving is a great way to discover a new underwater world. It is a completely new experience, and night diving is more exciting than regular daytime diving. Although night diving can be a bit scary, night dives are not as difficult as you might think. You will learn the proper techniques and overcome any difficulties associated with night diving.
Underwater naturalist dive
PADI Underwater Naturalist Course aims to equip students with the skills and knowledge to interact with aquatic ecosystems. Students learn about basic organism groupings and identification, how these species live in different habitats and how to practice environmentally-friendly diving. Students also learn about marine conservation and biodiversity.
For divers who have successfully completed the PADI Open Diver certification, and want to learn more about the marine environment. Students learn about coral reefs, marine species, food chains, and relationships between them. This course lasts one day and includes two open-water dives.
Peak performance buoyancy diver
Staying buoyant is one of the most important skills you can learn while diving. Proper buoyancy is vital as you can fall into the water and get decompression illnesses. A lack of proper buoyancy control increases the likelihood of being injured by sharp rocks or other marine life. 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 Bulkyancy Specialty is an intensive one-week class. It includes classroom and pool sessions along with two optional open water diving. It teaches students about buoyancy control and allows them to glide more easily through the water. PPB's goal is to make diving more fun, efficient, and easier.
Maximum depth is 30m/100ft
PADI Advanced Open Water will teach you the skills required to dive to depths of 100 feet. Diving deeper than this is extremely dangerous as you may experience nitrogen narcosis and impaired cognitive function. This depth is also dangerous for making mistakes that can prove to be fatal. Without proper training, you shouldn't dive further than this.
The Advanced Open Water course is typically completed within 1.5 to 2 days. The instructor will decide the course's duration. You can take the course online or on a local beach. Instructor training is essential before you take the course.