Advanced Open Water

The next certification after Open Water: five dives over two days, including a deep dive and underwater navigation, plus three specialties you choose.

Talk to an instructor

Call (603) 601-6708

PADI certification

Scuba divers with cylinders and regulators exploring a shipwreck in grey-green, low-visibility water, exhaust bubbles rising — Weather permitting, the deep dive is on the Chester Poling.

Before the dives

Hit the books first

Advanced Open Water eLearning carries interactive lessons on thirteen popular specialty dives — altitude, boat, digital underwater imaging, drift, dry suit, fish ID, night, buoyancy, search and recovery, underwater naturalist and wreck among them.

You study deep and navigation, which are required, plus the three specialties you pick for your dives.

The practicalities

01eLearning takes about six to eight hours, at your own pace
02Contact the shop for your eLearning code
03Plan on two full days — tides and weather set the schedule

The dives

Five dives. You choose three of them.

Two dives are fixed by the certification. The rest are yours to pick, which is how two divers can finish the same course having done quite different diving.

Day one

RequiredUnderwater Navigation

Choose two more

Altitude
Delayed Surface Marker Buoy
Dive Against Debris (AWARE)
Peak Performance Buoyancy
Search & Recovery
Enriched Air
Fish Identification

Day two

RequiredDeepScheduled with Down Under Diving Ventures. The charter fee is additional and is paid to the boat operator. Weather permitting, the dive is on the Chester Poling.

Choose one more

Boat
Dry Suit
Wreck

Choose your route

Two ways to take it

Advanced Open Water — eLearning & PracticalThe eLearning code, your class meeting with an instructor, and the practical dives. The boat dive is an additional cost paid to the operator.Advanced Open Water — Practical OnlyThe practical dives with an instructor, for divers who already hold an eLearning code. A class meeting is still required.

Not sure which you need? Ask an instructor — it takes a minute to work out.

Before you book

What to sort out first

Gear

Your own kit, or rented from the shop
Fitted before your class, not on the day

Stop in beforehand and we will get you sorted — see rental gear for what we hold and what it costs.

Paperwork and code

A PADI medical statement, before your first class
Your eLearning code, from the shop

If you have filled in a medical statement with us before, you are already set. Forms are on the resources page.

The deep dive is a charter. It is booked through the boat operator and the fee is paid to them, separately from the course. Call the shop on (603) 601-6708 and we will tell you what is running and what it costs.

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