Courses at Coconut Tree

Advanced Open Water Diver

Course Price: $200 per person
Book Price: $30
Materials: Advanced Open Water Manual
Time: 2-3 days
Prerequisites: Age 12, PADI Open Water Diver (or other qualifying certification)

Take your diving to the next level through the Adventures in Diving program, offering both the Adventure Diver and Advanced Open Water Diver certifications. If you complete any three adventure dives, you can earn your PADI Adventure Diver certification. If you complete your Deep Adventure Dive, Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive and three elective Adventure Dives for a total of five, you can earn your Advanced Open Water Diver certification.

Why Advanced Open Water Diver?
After your five dives, you will be more experienced, feel more comfortable in the water, and have a better understanding of the underwater environment. In short, you will get more out of your diving- and have a better time!

What do I need to start?
PADI Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization). If you are between 12 and 14 years of age or have a child between these ages, the PADI Junior Advanced Open Water program offers many of the same experiences up to a maximum depth of 21 meter/70 feet.

What will I do?
This certification includes five Adventure Dives, including the Deep Adventure Dive, the Underwater Navigator Adventure Dive, and your choice of three of the following:

• Drift Diver
• Night Diver
• Peak Performance Buoyancy
• Search and Recovery Diver
• Underwater Naturalist
• Underwater Photographer
• Wreck Diver

Tell me more about the Enriched Air Nitrox option.
The extended bottom time obtained by Enriched Air Nitrox allows you to get the most out of your Deep and Wreck Adventure dives. By reducing the amount of nitrogen in your tank, Enriched Air Nitrox enables you to extend your no-decompression limits past the normal air limits. For example, at 33 meters/110 feet (the maximum depth of our two shipwrecks), you can reach a maximum bottom time of 25 minutes on EANx32 (32% O₂, 68% N₂ mixture), as opposed to a mere 16 minutes on air. The Enriched Air Nitrox specialty can be combined with the Deep and Wreck Adventure dives of the Advanced Open Water course for a total of $313 (plus an additional $37 for Enriched Air Nitrox materials), a savings of over $50!

How long will it take?
The full Advanced Open Water course can typically be completed in two days, with the possibility of a third day if you would rather be a bit more flexible on your vacation. If time is an issue, you can complete the Adventure Diver certification in a single day.

What do I earn at the end?
You will receive your permanent PADI Advanced Open Water certification card, which opens your range of diving opportunities all around the world. With your extended depth range of 30 meters/100 feet, you will be able to explore many of the site otherwise off-limits to Open Water divers.

Where can I go from here?
PADI Advanced Open Water Divers at least 15 years of age can enroll in PADI Wreck or Deep Diver Specialty courses and continue on to the PADI Rescue Diver or Junior Rescue Diver course. Any of the PADI Adventure Dives included on your course can also credit towards their corresponding PADI Specialty Diver certifications.

Next: Emergency First Response ->