Padi Advanced Open Water Diver Course
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Exploration, Excitement, Experiences. They're what the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course is all about. And no, you don't have to be “advanced” to take it – it's designed so you can go straight into it after the PADI Open Water Diver course.
The Advanced Open Water Diver course helps you increase your confidence and build your scuba skills so you can become more comfortable in the water. This is a great way to get more dives under your belt while continuing to learn under the supervision of your PADI Instructor. This course builds on what you've learned and develops new capabilities by introducing you to new activities and new ways to have fun scuba diving.
You'll hone your skills by completing five adventure dives that introduce you to:
- Underwater navigation
- Deeper water diving (typically anywhere from 18-30 metres/ 60-100 feet)
- A sampler of three more Adventure Dives of your choice
One reason you'll love the Advanced Open Water Diver course is that you and your instructor choose from 15 types of Adventure Dives to complete your course. You can try your hand at digital underwater photography, night diving, peak performance buoyancy, search and recovery, boat diving and much more.
PREREQUISITES
To take this course, you must be:
- A PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization)
- 15 years old (12 for Junior Advanced Open Water Diver)
The knowledge and skills you get in the Advanced Open Water Diver course vary with your interest and the adventures you have, but include:
- Practical aspects of deep diving
- Physiological effects of deeper scuba diving.
- More ways to use your underwater compass
- How to navigate using kick-cycles, visual landmarks and time
- How to better use your dive computer and electronic Recreational Dive PlannerTM (eRDPTM)
- And much, much more, depending on the Adventure Dives you choose
You use all the basic scuba gear including your underwater compass. Depending on which three adventure dives you pick, you may also try out underwater photography equipment , a dive light a dry suit, lift bags, a dive flag/float or other specialty gear.
THE LEARNING MATERIALS YOU NEED
PADI's Adventures in Diving Manual and DVD provide information on more than 16 types of specialty diving.You'll use them as a guidebook to improve your diving skills and prepare for new experiences and adventures. During Advanced course you will use own learnig
materials provided by Dive Academy from Padi.
After you've tried a specialty in the Advanced Open Water Diver course, you'll probably want to take more and start Rescue Diver course.
Dive Academy is the first and only Dive Centre in Ireland to offer diving in an indoor Aquarium Tank. Our Aquarium Tank provides a great opportunity to experience diving for both young and beginner divers. It is also a good fun for experienced divers.
Our facility also include a 25m swimming pool, changing facilities with lockers, warm showers, steam room, sauna, jacuzzi, equipment and administration room, everything a diver needs to feel comfortable before and especially after dives.
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