ADVANCE OPEN WATER DIVER
A MUST LEARN COURSE!
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Participants are also given as much practice as necessary to master
and retain these skills.
The advanced open water diver program required two days and five
adventure dives.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Who is this dive for ?
Advanced Open Water course is designed
for those who want to get more diving experience and learn about new
subjects: like how to dive on wrecks, digital underwater photography,
diving deeper and understanding the underwater eco-system. You should
be a certified Open Water diver to participate in this course.
How deep and how long
is each dive ?
Each dive has its own rules regarding to
depth, you will go to a maximum depth of 30m, under a close supervision
of your instructor. Duration of each dive will be 35-45 minutes.
What is Advanced
Open Water Diver course ?
advanced open water certification is
often mistaken as an experienced diver. This is not exactly so. This
programs provides you basic knowledge about minimum five specific types
of diving, Deep dive (30m) and Navigation dive being the mandatory ones.
What can I do next ?
You can upgrade yourself to the Open
Water qualification.
What is Adventure Diver
course ?
If you opt to experience only three programs
like Deep, Navigation and say Night diving you get certified as an Adventure
Diver. These dives can be counted if you take up specialty programs
in these courses. Later on you can complete you two more elective dives
and get certified as Advance Open Water Diver.
Do I have to sit for exams
again ?
Don't worry, this course is a experience
program, just complete all the quiz and knowledge review of the relevant
sections of your adventures in diving manual, plus five open water adventure
dives and you receive your certification. No Exams.
What is the benefit of
Advanced Open Water certification ?
Have you thought of the times you sat on
the boat while other went diving on a wreck at a depth beyond 18m. Advanced
Open Water certification qualifies you to dive upto the limit of recreational
diving ie. 30 m. Deep diving requires experience, specialized equipment,
planning and training. Progress slowly and dive safely. You may learn
photography and videography to capture you precious underwater moments.
As you will learn the tricks of Navigation, as you practice, you will
feel more comfortable and return back to the anchor line easily instead
of long surface swims which can be tiring. These are just a few benefits.
What are the adventure
dives in the program to choose from ?
There are about 26 adventure dive programs
to choose from, out of which 9 are offered by us at present. Deep Adventure
Diving Navigation Adventure Diving Search and Recovery Adventure Diving
Naturalist Adventure Diving Underwater Digital Photography Adventure
Diving Peak Performance Buoyancy Adventure Diving Aware Fish Identification
Adventure Diving Wreck Adventure Diving Boat Adventure Diving
What can I do next ?
As a qualified Advanced Open Water Diver,
you are able to dive anywhere in the world to a maximum depth of 30m
with a buddy. If you liked any of the Adventure Dives then you can you
can learn more about the subject by signing up for the respective Specialty.
The next course up the ladder is Rescue Diver. This course teaches
you self-help techniques plus essential skills to help in the case of
a diving accident.
