PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (AOWD)

Do you want more confidence, new experiences and deepen your skills?

PADI Advanced Open Water Diver is a practical advanced course where you expand your skills with an instructor five open water dives through.

The idea of the course is simple: more experience, more skills, more fun
(..and even without a final written exam!)

Do you dive in Finland? We strongly recommend completing the AOWD with a drysuit . If you don't have drysuit experience or rating yet, please contact us. We can package PADI Dry Suit Diver -part as a natural part of your AOWD course. The same also works if you are interested in, for example, Enriched Air Nitrox -diving: Nitrox is easy to integrate into the course smoothly.
Ask more and we will build a package that suits you.

Who is the course for?

The course is suitable for you if:

• you have PADI Open Water Diver (or equivalent level from another diving organization)
• you want to learn to dive more safely deeper and to navigate underwater
• you want to test new themes and gain experience (e.g. wreck, night, nitrox, drysuit, buoyancy control) in a comfortable and guided manner

What will you learn on this course?

The course includes a total of 5 open water dives :

• 2 'mandatory' diving:
  1. Deep Dive (deep diving, over 18 m, under 30 m)
  2. Underwater Navigation (underwater navigation)
• 3 optional adventure dives according to local conditions and group interests.

Examples of optional themes
There are many options, including:

• Peak Performance Buoyancy (top buoyancy control)
• Night (night dive)
• Wreck Diver (wreck)
• Search & Recovery (search and recovery)
• Underwater Naturalist (underwater nature)
• Fish Identification
• Drysuit (dry suit)
• Enriched Air Nitrox
• Dive Against Debris
• Digital Underwater Photography
  
  (The selection varies depending on the destination and season.)

Course structure

1) PADI eLearning (6–8 hours)
You will study the theories of deep diving and orienteering and familiarize yourself with your chosen themes in advance.

2) Open water section with instructor (2–3 days)
You will practice skills, receive instruction and complete five open water dives. This course is for doing – that’s why There is no separate written exam.

Age limit and requirements

• Requirement: PADI Open Water Diver / Junior OWD or equivalent basic level
• Minimum age to start: 12 years
  • 15+ deserves Advanced Open Water Diver -classification
  • 12–14 earns Junior Advanced Open Water rating (maximum diving depth 21 m)
  • 10–11 can complete Junior Adventure Diver -level (and completes the deep diving section after turning 12)

What do you get after the course?

• PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or Junior AOWD) rating
• Increase experience, confidence and skill: depth, orientation and new diving experiences
• Clearer direction for your next steps (special courses, excursions, more demanding destinations)