Exploration, excitement, new experiences.

The PADI Advanced Open Water course helps you gain confidence, develop your diving skills and become more comfortable in the water. It's a great way to combine diving and learning, under the supervision and guidance of a PADI Instructor. This course builds on what you've learned and allows you to gain experience through adventure diving.

The exciting part...

The reason you'll love the PADI Advanced Open Water course is that you and your instructor will choose 5 specialtiesfrom 15 dive types to complete your course. You'll be able to progress into wreck diving, drift diving, night diving, fish identification, buoyancy control and much more...

2 of the 5 specialties are compulsory: navigation and deep diving. To further explore the wonders of the marine world, with the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver you can dive autonomously (with a buddy of equivalent or higher level) in the safety curve to a depth of 30 metres.

All this... at 6 of the most beautiful dive sites in Playa del Carmen and the Riviera Maya.

After this complete course you will be able to dive to a depth of 30 meters worldwide.

ALL 6 dives in the AOW Programme are ‘adventure dives’ and all can be used as the first dive of their associated speciality.

Prerequisites:

To register, you must...

• be a PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver (or 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 must be examined by a doctor before participating in recreational dive training. If any of the items on the medical questionnaire apply to you, you should consult a doctor before participating in the dive.

What you learn:

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

To dive deep:

• Practical and technical aspects of deep diving.

• The physiological effects of deep diving. Understanding the effect of narcosis, and why we become saturated with nitrogen, for example.

• How to best use your electronic recreational dive computer and planner (eRDPTM).

For underwater navigation :

• Different ways to navigate underwater, both naturally and with instruments.

• How to navigate using swim cycles, natural visual cues and time.

In this special Advanced Open Water GOLD course package, you will also have the opportunity to take your Nitrox Specialty certification!

The rest is up to you to choose from all the PADI specialties available at our centre (Obviously, we don't offer ice diving...).
This is a small, but not exhaustive list of the adventure dives we offer:
(These different adventure dives can be decided on the advice of your instructor)

• 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

Itinerary:

Day 1 - 2 afternoon Playa del Carmen reef dives.

Day 2 - 2 morning dives in Playa del Carmen and NITROX theory in the afternoon.

Day 3 - 2 NITROX dives in the morning south of Playa del Carmen. Special dive site.

Equipment and materials:

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, as well as the oxygen analyser for your enriched air (nitrox) dives.

What is included?

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

• PADI Advanced Open Water and Nitrox e-learning

• Knowledge development

• Skills practice

• Six dives at six different dive sites in Playa del Carmen

• Dive equipment rental

• PADI Advanced Open Water Certification

• PADI Nitrox Specialty Certification

• Bottled water and fruit on the boat

• Nitrox tanks