Adventure Diver vs. Advanced Open Water Diver

If you're short on time, you can choose the PADI Adventure Diver course.

You will have the opportunity to enjoy three dives of your choice, to try what you like and become more comfortable in the water, managing your underwater skills and allowing you to enjoy scuba diving in just 1 day.

These 3 adventure dives are logged and will count towards the day you wish to complete your advanced open water padi.

During the PADI Adventure Diver course, you will improve your skills by completing three dives, which will introduce you to underwater navigation, or deep water diving (generally between 18-30 metres / 60-100 feet), or buoyancy skills. You will choose 3 ‘Adventure’ dives of your choice.

• Only the Advanced Open Water or Deep Adventure Diver certifications qualify you to dive to 30 metres.

• The 5 dives in the AOW Programme are ‘adventure dives’ and all can be used as the first dive of your associated speciality.

You will have the opportunity to discover 3 dive themes in the most beautiful sites of the region: The Caribbean Sea... What better way to improve your orientation, for example, or to enjoy an incredible drift dive on the walls of Cozumel .

Pre - requirements:

To register, you must...

• Be a PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver (or an equivalent certification from another training organisation).

• Be 10 years old for Junior Adventure Diver, 12 years old for Junior Advanced Open Water Diver, and 15 years old for Adventure Diver or Advanced Open Water Diver.

• Complete our PADI Medical Questionnaire. This form is to find out if you should be examined by your doctor before participating in recreational dive training. If any of the items on the medical questionnaire apply to you, you should consult a physician before participating in the dive.

What you learn:

The knowledge and skills you acquire in the PADI Adventure Diver course vary depending on your interest and the specific aspects you've chosen, but may include:

• Deep diving

• Navigation

• Wreck Diver: Wreck diving.

• Drift Diver: Dive in the current.

• Enriched Air Diver (Nitrox)

• Fish identification

• Underwater Naturalist

• Boat Diver - Diving from a boat

• Search and Recovery Diver

• Peak Performance Buoyancy

Schedule and programme:

Day 1 - 2 dives on the Playa del Carmen reef in the morning + 1 in the afternoon.

Material and equipment :

The PADI Adventure in Diving or e-learning manual provides information on more than 16 types of diving. This guide will help you improve your diving skills and prepare you for new experiences and adventures. Course materials are included.

You will use all the basic diving equipment: fins, mask, buoyancy control waistcoat, regulator, pressure gauge and, above all, the underwater compass. Depending on the three adventure dives you choose, you will also have the opportunity to try out underwater photography equipment, the computer, a dive torch, lift bags, a dive flag or other specialised equipment.

What is included?

• Instruction by a professional, multilingual, PADI-certified dive instructor.

• The PADI Advanced Open Water e-learning course

• Knowledge development

• Skills practice

• Three dives at three different dive sites

• Dive equipment rental

• PADI Adventure Diver certification

• Bottle of water and fruit on the boat