Advanced Diving Lessons
Advanced Open Water Scuba Diving Lessons
The second part of the PADI scuba diving training is based on the premise that scuba diving gives the diver a chance to explore new interests. Once you are familiar with the basic skills you might want to exceed the 54 feet / 18 meters limit of the OWD certification and discover different plants and creatures, conquer new tasks and experience new underwater adventures. In the end of the day it’s all about feeling more confident under water; thus having lots more fun!
The structure of the PADI AOWD course is slightly different from what you have experienced in your open water lessenos. Only two of the 5 lessons are mandatory, those would be “Navigation” and “Deep Diving”. The navigation lesson will teach you to navigate under water by using a compass and natural signs, such as rock formations and sand patterns, to find your way around underwater, and most important, back to your entry point.
In the deep diving lesson you will learn in theory and practice how to dive deeper and handle greater pressure. You will learn about nitrogen narcosis and how to avoid it. The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Certification brings you to the limit of recreational diving, (scuba diving without decompression stops) to a max. depth of 40 meters.
After you have completed the two mandatory dives, you need three more dives to obtain the AOWD certification or one more dive to be certified as a PADI Adventure Diver. Until here the PADI scuba diving education is the same for all students. From here on after PADI gives you the freedom of choice to follow your particular interests and maybe even develop a whole new hobby.
To complete your Advanced Open Water Course you may choose three of the following lessons:
- Multilevel and Computer Diving - To improve your dive planing
- Night Diving - To discover a whole new environment
- Peak Performance Buoyancy Dive - To better your buoyancy skills
- Search and Recovery Dive - To better your navigation skills
- Underwater Naturalist Dive - To learn more about underwater life
- PADI AWARE - Fish Identification Dive - To recognize what you see under water
- Digital Underwater Photography Dive - To shoot your first underwater pictures
- Diver Propulsion Vehicle Dive (DPV) - To save energy underwater and to have lots of fun
- Enriched Air Dive (Nitrox) - To stay longer at deeper levels
Once you are certified as an Advanced Diver you will feel far more confident under water and maybe you even want to learn more about scuba diving. If this is the case, you may want to find out more about the PADI Rescue Diver Course.
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