You should complete an Advanced Open Water Diver Course if you want to elevate your diving skills. This course will improve your navigation, buoyancy, and deep diving skills. It also includes three specialty dives of your choice. You'll earn credit toward specialty certifications when you complete the course.
Adventure dives
It is essential to take adventure dives in order to be a certified scuba diver. They improve your buoyancy and awareness, as well as your communication skills. You need to have completed 5 adventures dives in order to become certified. Your instructor will teach you planning and breathing techniques and how to improve your breathing.
These dives count towards your specialty and are called adventure dives. By this method, you'll be better able to pick dives that will help you in the long-term. PADI recommends that divers have a variety of objectives. They can be deep exploration or wildlife exploration.
Night dive
In an Advanced Open Water Diver course, students learn about different techniques that help them be safer underwater. They learn to control their breathing and adjust their body positions. They will also learn how to communicate with their buddy by using diving lights. The students will have fun practicing their skills in shallow water by playing games.
Night diving is an excellent way to explore new underwater worlds. It's a totally different experience than diving during daytime, and night dives offer more excitement than daytime. Even though night diving may seem intimidating, it is actually not that difficult. Your instructor will teach you the correct techniques and help with any difficulties you might face when diving at night.
Underwater naturalist dive
The PADI Underwater Naturalist course aims to provide students with the necessary knowledge and skills to interact with the aquatic ecosystem. Students learn about basic organism groupings and identification, how these species live in different habitats and how to practice environmentally-friendly diving. They are also taught about the importance marine conservation, including biodiversity conservation.
The PADI Underwater Naturalist course is for divers who have completed their PADI Open Diver certification and would like to explore the marine environment in a more scientific way. Students learn about coral reefs, marine species, food chains, and relationships between them. This course lasts one day and includes two open-water dives.
Peak performance buoyancy diver
One of the most important skills to learn when diving is how to stay buoyant. Proper buoyancy is vital as you can fall into the water and get decompression illnesses. A lack of proper buoyancy control increases the likelihood of being injured by sharp rocks or other marine life. PADI Peak Performancebuoyancy Specialty helps divers maintain proper buoyancy and to avoid these issues.
PADI Peak Performance is a one-week course that includes both classroom and pool sessions as scuba diving, with the option of two open water dives. The course teaches students to control buoyancy and aids them in moving through the water with ease. Ultimately, this PPB program is about making diving easier, more fun, and more efficient.
Maximum depth at 30m/100ft
PADI Advanced Open Water is a course that teaches you how to dive up to 100 feet. This is dangerous because you could get nitrogen narcosis or impaired cognitive function. Mistakes at this depth can lead to disaster. Without proper training, you shouldn't dive further than this.
The Advanced Open Water course is usually completed within a 1.5 to two-day period. The instructor determines the length of the course. The instructor can instruct the course online, or at a beach near you. Instructor training is required before taking the course.