COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
- Minimum certification: Junior Open Water / Open Water (or a qualifying entry-level certification)
- Minimum age: 12 years old (ages 12–14 earn Junior Advanced Open Water, max depth 70 feet)
- Time commitment: one weekend, a Saturday afternoon and a Sunday morning boat trip, about 6 hours each day (not including eLearning)
- No classroom or pool time
- Total dives: 5 adventure dives
- Complete self-study, either the PADI manual or eLearning
- Completed PADI medical questionnaire in your PADI eLearning profile, with a physician’s sign-off if needed
- Complete the course within 12 months of purchase
GEAR REQUIREMENTS:
- Rental scuba gear included: BCD, regulator with octopus, dive computer, wetsuit and tanks
- Safety equipment: surface marker buoy (SMB) with finger spool and whistle
- Personal equipment: mask, snorkel, fins (boots if using open heel fins), weights and logbook
- Compass
- Underwater slate
- PADI Adventures in Diving slate
- Extra gear may be needed depending on your chosen adventure dives
- Students get 10% off gear in our store
WHAT WILL I LEARN DURING THE PADI ADVANCED OPEN WATER COURSE WITH DXDIVERS?
Whether you're a new diver or been diving for years, the PADI Advanced Open Water course will teach you valuable skills that will make you a better diver for yourself and your dive buddy. Develop essential scuba skills like how to use a compass and navigate underwater. Feel what it's like to be under four atmospheres of pressure, how that affects your choices and overall diving. Skills like search and recovery, buoyancy and drift diving are essential to becoming an experienced scuba diver. The wreck adventure dive opens you up to a whole new world as you explore the outer structure of the wreck. See below for some frequently asked questions about the Advanced Open Water course here at DXDivers. Learn more about the Nitrox course, or get both with the Advanced Open Water + Nitrox Combo.
DXDIVERS ADVANCED OPEN WATER COURSE EXTRA DETAILS
- Air or nitrox fills for your course dives (nitrox if you’re Nitrox certified)
- Rental gear and tanks included in the course
- Certification processing with a digital PADI eCard, included in the cost of the course
- Group classes offered every weekend (weather permitting), or add the Flexible Schedule (+$180) or Private 1-on-1 (+$250) upgrade
- Get “Parts for Life” warranty for annual servicing when you buy the gear package and register it with the respective company
Glad you asked! Here at DXDivers, we’re proud to have an all-in-one facility and dive boat for a convenient, relaxing scuba experience. Our full retail store carries more than 100 diving brands and over 3,000 products, and we have a training pool out back and classrooms upstairs. Once you’re certified, our drive-thru tank fill station means you never have to lug your tanks through the store. Best of all, our dive boat, the Lady Go Diver, a Newton 46-ft Dive Special, is docked less than a mile from the shop. With our retail store, training pool, classrooms and dive boat all close together, every part of your diving experience fits together seamlessly.
Yes. You need to be a certified diver (PADI Open Water Diver, Junior Open Water Diver, or a qualifying entry-level certification from another agency) and at least 12 years old.
Advanced Open Water is offered every weekend, weather permitting. After your eLearning, the course takes one weekend: a Saturday afternoon boat trip and a Sunday morning boat trip off our dive boat, the Lady Go Diver, where you complete your 5 adventure dives. Plan on about 6 hours each day, from the time you arrive until you head home. There’s no classroom or pool time. Ocean dives always depend on the weather. Call us at 954-420-0009 to reserve your weekend.
Yes! The standard course is a group class offered every weekend, weather permitting. If you’d like more flexibility, you have two upgrades: the Flexible Schedule Upgrade (+$180) gives you semi-private training scheduled around your availability (we may add other students if needed or wanted), and the Private 1-on-1 Upgrade (+$250) gives you one-on-one instruction with flexible scheduling. Upgrades are added on top of the course price.
You have 12 months from the date of purchase to complete the course.
Sometimes the ocean has other plans! If weather or sea conditions cancel the boat, we can use alternative dive sites such as Tigertail Lake and Blue Heron Bridge to complete your course.
Yes. Rental BCD, regulator with octopus, dive computer, wetsuit and tanks are included in the course. You bring your own personal gear: mask, snorkel, fins (boots if using open heel fins), weights, logbook, compass, underwater slate and PADI Adventures in Diving slate, plus safety gear: a surface marker buoy (SMB) with finger spool and a whistle. Students get 10% off gear in our store.
It can be! It depends on the combined price of 4 items in your gear package: BCD, regulator, octo and computer. $2,000+ gets your Advanced Open Water course fee free; $3,000+ gets Advanced Open Water + Nitrox course fees free; $4,000+ adds 2 free dives on our dive boat, the Lady Go Diver; and $5,000+ adds 5 free dives on the Lady Go Diver. Free courses cover the course fee only. PADI eLearning and course materials aren’t included with the gear package, but we sell them for less than PADI does. See the gear packages that qualify or call us at 954-420-0009.
No, PADI eLearning and course materials aren’t included when you purchase a gear package. PADI is a separate company from our small business. However, we sell the materials for less than PADI does.
Advanced Open Water Divers 15 and older can dive to 100 feet (30 meters). Junior Advanced Open Water Divers ages 12–14 can dive to 70 feet (21 meters). Your deep adventure dive goes below the Open Water limit of 60 feet, to a maximum of 100 feet (70 feet for ages 12–14). Want to dive to the recreational limit of 130 feet? Take the PADI Deep Diver specialty.
The minimum age for PADI Advanced Open Water is 12. Divers ages 12–14 earn the Junior Advanced Open Water Diver certification, with a maximum depth of 70 feet, and it’s automatically upgraded to Advanced Open Water Diver when they turn 15.
Right away! After you buy the PADI Advanced Open Water eLearning, we email you a link to redeem your code, so you can start learning from home. Finish it before your first boat day.
That’s ultimately up to your doctor. You’ll fill out the PADI medical questionnaire in your PADI eLearning profile. If you answer “yes” to anything on it, you’ll need a release signed by your doctor before diving.
Yes! For example, the Wreck Diver specialty takes four dives. If you do the wreck dive as one of your adventure dives, you only need 3 more dives plus the wreck self-study (book or eLearning) to become a Wreck Diver.
No, but we highly recommend it. Nitrox has a higher concentration of oxygen than regular air (over 21%), which means longer bottom times, shorter surface intervals and, as many divers report, less fatigue. Because it’s a different gas, it requires its own training. Save by taking both together with the Advanced Open Water + Nitrox Combo ($520).
Yes. Air or nitrox fills (nitrox if you’re Nitrox certified) are included for your course dives, along with rental tanks and rental gear.
On the Lady Go Diver, we provide complimentary light snacks, cold drinking water and soda. You’re welcome to bring your own snacks and drinks, too, so you feel comfortable while diving with us.
Yes, let us know and get a 10% discount!