Will you improve your diving? This adventure continues with Advanced Open Water certification! This lesson will improve your underwater skills. If you need to be qualified, check out our article on preparing for your open-water certification to become an autonomous diver!
The Advanced Open Water Certification is ideal for prospective divers who desire additional dives under PADI supervision. You’ll improve your talents and adapt to various diving sites.
First of all:
Qualification as an Advanced Open Water Diver or Open Water Diver?
The Advanced Open Water Certification requires PADI Open Water Diver certification. Why should you upgrade from these two certifications?
Course summary Like Open Water, Advanced Open Water requires theoretical and in-water practice. You can complete the theoretical part at home with the PADI eLearning program or in a book, so when you get to Adventure Scuba, LLC, you can enjoy the Caribbean waters and focus on the water part of your course.
Extreme Diving
There are five adventure dives in the Advanced Open Water course, so you may check out different diving areas to see which one you like most. Depending on your dives, you’ll get experience that will be useful in the future. Both the Navigation Dive and the Deep Dive are required.
Here’s a rundown of each diving specialty that should help you decide which adventure dives best suits your interests:
- Deep Adventure Dive (mandatory)
In this 100-foot (30-meter) dive, you will experience depth-related variations in color, pressure, and other variables.
- Navigation Adventure Dive (required)
In this dive, you’ll practice compass navigation patterns from your Open Water Course.
- Boat Diver
This dive will teach you the basics of boat construction and the tools every vessel should have in an emergency. We will also discuss the many methods of water entry that may be used, depending on the type of vessel you plan on diving from.
- Digital Imaging for Submarine Use
On this dive, we’ll focus entirely on photography, from preparing the underwater housing to shooting well-composed shots and recording video with the correct settings for a polished final product.
- Drift Adventure Dive
This adventure dive will teach you the proper safety measures to take before entering the water in a strong current and how to enter the water safely, maintain your buoyancy while drift diving, and keep your dive buddy close.
- Fish ID
Nature lovers, this dive is for you! You’ll be tasked with correctly naming several fish species. We’ll talk about how those species fit into the local ecology, their symbiotic ties, and their role in maintaining biodiversity.
- Peak Performance Buoyancy
Buoyancy training is a lot of fun, and it will pay off in the long run when you go diving.
- Search & Recovery
The goal is to locate a hidden object placed on the ocean floor using standard underwater search techniques. In addition to learning and practicing the proper use of an elevation device, you’ll also become familiar with some of the most regularly used knots in diving.
- Underwater Naturalist
Learn how to recognize different species of plants, animals, and coral when scuba diving to enhance your underwater awareness.
Final Thoughts,
There are advantages to continuing your scuba training and earning your Advanced Open Water Certification. There are various tours and underwater worlds to explore while being an advanced diver, whether you want to obtain it to enjoy your diving holidays in the Caribbean Sea or you’re on your path to being a professional diver. Join us for the first step toward your scuba open water diver certification and a lifetime of underwater exploration!
