The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course is designed to improve your underwater knowledge and skills.

You can enrol immediately after earning your PADI Open Water Diver certification. The course helps you build

confidence in navigation, fine-tune buoyancy skills and introduces you to different diving activities such

as wreck diving, night diving or underwater photography. After completing your academic learning, you'll make

five Adventure Dives:- a deep dive (beyond 18m), a navigation dive, and three additional Adventure

Dives of your choice to earn your certification.. This course fee covers your training, assessments and

certification card and materials but should you wish to complete the academic part of your course online, then a

separate fee is payable directly to PADI. Please ask us about the additional cost. The academic part of the course

consists of 'in class' tuition and Knowledge Reviews for each of the chosen elements and then a practical in water

dive of teaching and practise of the additional skills relative to each element. There are 13 additional elements from which to choose for the Advanced Open Water Course. These additional elements consist of the first dive of the any selected PADI Specialty Course and maybe used as credit towards the respective full individual Specialty Course. These individual specialty courses largely consist of four dives in total. PADI Underwater Navigation and PADI Deep Diver are compulsory elements for Advanced Open Water qualification. You can take the first step towards this by becoming a PADI Adventure Diver initially completing 3 Adventure Dives and then the remaining to dives at a later date. Please CLICK HERE see our information on this course! 

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The PADI Advanced Open Water Course comprise of the following:-

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• Knowledge Development (online, independent study or in a classroom) to understand the principles and performance requirements of each of the chosen Adventure Dives together with the requisite Knowledge Reviews

• Practise of the individual skills

• Complete the dive to the level required for certification

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Prerequisites and Requirements:-

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• Age requirement - 12 years or older

• Course Prerequisites - Must be a PADI Open Water Diver/PADI Junior Open Water Diver or qualifying certification. Parent or guardian consent is required.

• Time Commitment - Approximately 8 hours for the academic part of the course.

• The cost of course includes courses materials and in class tuition but an extra cost of €216.00 or equivalent currency is payable to PADI if you opt for online academic learning. As you advance your abilities there may be additional personal dive equipment that will be required such as a dive light or compass so please ask us! Please contact us should you wish to opt for online/eLearning !

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There is also the PADI Junior Advanced Open Water Diver Course where appropriate with a minimum age requirement of 12 years.

 

The PADI Advanced Open Water Manual and Certification is included in the course price! The manual can be delivered to your home address at a small additional cost so that your may begin the theory part of your course before you start your holiday in Gozo!

 

Please remember to bring your Log Book!