Jr. Advanced and AOW

The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver eLearning is designed to improve your underwater knowledge and skills. You can enroll immediately after earning your PADI Open Water Diver certification, regardless of your skill level. The course helps you build confidence in navigation and fine-tune buoyancy skills and introduces you to diving activities such as wreck diving, night diving, or underwater imaging. After completing your eLearning, you’ll make five Adventure Dives: a deep dive (beyond 60FT), a navigation dive, and three additional Adventure Dives to earn your certification.

The Course

You’ll plan your learning path with your instructor by choosing from a long list of Adventure Dives. There are two required dives – Deep and Underwater Navigation – and you choose the other three for five dives.

During the Deep Adventure Dive, you learn how to plan dives to deal with the physiological effects and challenges of deeper scuba diving. The Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive refines your compass navigation skills and helps you better navigate using kick-cycles, visual landmarks, and time.

The other knowledge and skills you get vary with your interest and your adventures – photography, buoyancy control, fish identification, exploring wrecks, and many more. You may be able to get college credit for the Advanced Open Water Diver course.

Prerequisites & Requirements

• Age Requirement: 12 years or older
• Course Prerequisites: Open Water Diver/Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification)
• Time Commitment: Approximately 8 hours
• Required online training: PADI e-learning

Jr. Adventure Diver:

The Adventure Diver course is a subset of the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course. Have you always wanted to try digital underwater photography, fish identification, or peak performance buoyancy? There’s a long list of scuba adventures you can take part in during this program. Complete three Adventure Dives, and you earn the Adventure Diver certification. It’s an excellent opportunity to work with your instructor to build your scuba skills and gain more confidence. Get a taste of what you like and enjoy scuba diving more than ever.

Get credit! Each Adventure Dive may be credited toward the first dive of the corresponding PADI Specialty Diver Course. If you’ve already taken a specialty diver course, ask your instructor if you’ve earned credit for an Adventure Dive.

PADI (Junior) Open Water Divers who are at least ten years old and want to take the next step should enroll in an Adventure Diver course. Young divers may only participate in certain adventure dives.

Specialty dives

You can choose two specialty dives in addition to navigation for this class. Need to work on your buoyancy skills? Try the Peak Performance Buoyancy Adventure Dive. Want to know what you’re looking at down there? Try the AWARE – Fish Identification or Underwater Naturalist Adventure Dives. You’ll plan your path with your instructor, review what you need to know, and dive in quickly.