Move up and experience real adventure with the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course.
As you step beyond the PADI Open Water Diver level, you make five dives and have the opportunity to try some of diving’s most rewarding and useful specialty activities, such as deep diving, digital underwater photography, wreck diving and much more.
These skills make diving much more than underwater sightseeing. Plus, the Advanced Open Water Diver course takes you one step closer to Master Scuba Diver – the ultimate non professional certification in recreational diving.


   With your PADI Instructor you will complete the deep and underwater navigation Adventure Dives. These dives boost your confidence as you build these foundational skills. Then, you choose three additional dives from more than 15 Adventure Dives to complete your course.
 
 Number of dives: Five dives Adventure Dive options include altitude diving, AWARE-fish identification, boat diving, deep diving, diver propulsion vehicle use, drift diving, dry suit diving, multilevel and computer diving, night diving, peak performance buoyancy, search and recovery, underwater nature study, underwater navigation, underwater photography, underwater videography and wreck diving 

   Each Adventure Dive in the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course may credit toward the first dive of the corresponding PADI Specialty Diver course.

    Students meet an important prerequisite for Rescue, Divemaster and Instructor training.

   Students can take the Enriched Air or the Drysuit Course in conjunction with this course. For more details contact Aquatic Adventures of MI.
 Prerequisites:

  A PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization)
 15 years old (12 for Junior Advanced Open Water Diver)


   Get College Credit : You may be able to earn college credit for the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course

 How Much? 
The course fee is $235 and includes all instruction, Advanced Open Water course materials and certification card processing, if earned.  A $100.00 non-refundable deposit is required. 


 Additionally, students are also responsible for supplying the equipment listed below, transportation to and from dive sites, dive site admission, meals, overnight accommodations and tank fills
(just as you would if you were out diving purely for fun).

 Mask, snorkel, fins 
 Bouyancy Compensator
 Regulators (Primary & secondary)
 One cylinder per dive, per day.
 Gauges or Dive Computer
 Wetsuit or Drysuit
 Gloves 
   Surface signal (Audible or visual)
 Cutting tool 
 Slate
 Dive Light-Primary & back-up (Required for night dive)


All of these items are available for purchase at Aquatic Adventures of MI!!

 When Can You Learn?

Aquatic Adventures of MI offers Advanced Open Water training almost every two weeks thoughout the year. The schedule for these weekend-long programs is:

 ~ Thursday Evening: Meet at the store from 6:00 until 10:00 pm.

~ Saturday Morning: Training dives at Gilboa Quarry (Findlay, OH) starting 2:00pm and going between 5:00 and 9:00 pm (depending on whether you elect to do a night dive).