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. It also offers three specialty diving options. When you complete this course, you can earn credit towards specialty certifications.
Adventure dives
It is essential to take adventure dives in order to be a certified scuba diver. These dives improve your awareness and buoyancy, as well as communication skills. Normally, you must complete 5 adventure dives before you can be certified. Your instructor will assist you in improving your breathing and kicking skills, as well as teaching you how to plan your dives.
Adventure dives are the first in any specialty course and count towards the specialty you're working towards. You'll be able choose dives that you will use in the future. PADI recommends divers with multiple objectives. These could include deep exploration, wildlife research, or exploring wrecks.
Night dive
Advanced Open Water Diver Course teaches students about safe diving techniques. 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 offers a unique way to see new underwater worlds. Night diving offers a different experience to daytime diving, making it more interesting than daytime. Even though night diving can seem scary, they aren't as difficult as you might imagine. Instructors will help you learn proper techniques and get you through the challenges of night diving.
Underwater naturalist dive
PADI's Underwater Naturalist course is designed to teach students how to interact in the aquatic ecosystem. Students learn about basic organism groupings and identification, how these species live in different habitats and how to practice environmentally-friendly diving. They learn about the importance conservation of biodiversity and marine conservation.
PADI Underwater Naturalist Course is for those divers who have obtained their PADI Open Diver Certification and are looking to gain a deeper understanding of the marine environment. The course includes information about coral reefs. marine organisms. food chains. and the relationships between those organisms. The course is 1 day long and involves 2 open water dives.
Peak performance buoyancy diver
It is important to know how to keep your buoyancy when diving. You must be buoyant all the time, as falling in water can cause decompression sickness. Improper buoyancy control also increases the risk of injury from sharp rocks or marine life. PADI Peak Performance buoyancy specialty helps divers to develop proper buoyancy control.
PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialistty is a 1-week course that includes classroom and pool sessions as well as two open water dives. The class also teaches students buoyancy control, which helps them glide through the water better. Ultimately, this PPB program is about making diving easier, more fun, and more efficient.
Maximum depth 30m/100ft
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. This depth is also dangerous for making mistakes that can prove to be fatal. This is why you shouldn't go deeper than that without proper training.
The Advanced Open Water course can usually be completed in a period of 1.5 to 2 days. The instructor determines the length of the course. The course can either be completed online or at the beach. Before you can take the course, it is important that you have instructor training.