Advanced Open Water Diver Course PADI

Overview

This course is designed to advance your diving. The course helps build confidence and expand your scuba skills through different Adventure Dives. You try out different specialties while gaining experience. You log dives and develop capabilities as you find new ways to have fun scuba diving.

According to National Geographic, water covers more than 70% of the surface of our planet and only 2 to 5% of the oceans have been studied. There are more than 2.2 million species of organisms living in the oceans, of which only 194,400 are known. The advantage of carrying out this certification in Mexico is the great diversity of diving sites present. There are millions of animals, plants, caves and cenotes that can only be seen in Mexico.

Advanced Open Water Diver is the second level of certification. This worldwide certificate allows you to dive up to 30 meters. This 2-day course includes a theoretical and a practical part with 5 dives in the sea or in the cenotes.

Prerequisites:

• Minimum age is 15 years old
• Open Water Diver PADI certification or equivalent

Course content:

• 5 Open Water Dives

You will plan your learning path with your instructor by choosing from a long list of Adventure Dives. There are two required dives:

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

You will choose the other three for a total of five dives. It can be:

• Adaptive Support Diver
• Altitude
• Dive Boat
• Dive Cavern
• Dive Delayed Surface Marker Buoy
• Dive Digital Underwater Imaging Dive
• Dive Against Debris Dive (AWARE)
• Diver Propulsion Vehicle
• Dive Drift Dive Dry Suit
• Dive Enriched Air
• Dive Fish Identification
• Dive Full Face Mask
• Dive Ice Dive
• Night Dive
• Peak Performance Buoyancy Dive
• Rebreather Dive
• Search & Recovery Dive Self-Reliant
• Dive Shark Conservation Dive (AWARE)
• Sidemount Dive
• Wreck Dive

Following this certification, you will be able to take the following courses: Rescue diver, Divemaster, Sidemount diver PADI, Cavern diver TDI, Intro to cave diver TDI and Full cave diver TDI.