Product Description

The PADI Advanced Open Water class provides an excellent opportunity to expand your diving skills. This eLearning Online Course includes interactive lessons on 13 speciality dives: altitude, boat, deep, digital underwater imaging, drift, dry suit, fish ID, night, buoyancy, search and recovery, underwater naturalist, underwater navigation, and wreck diving. The course is done online at your own convenience so when it’s time to do your in-water training, you’ll have the knowledge portion completed. This course contains all the eLearning chapters and tests online.

Once you complete this course, it gives you the option to chose a dive shop to complete the associated dives. You can chose a dive shop in your area to learn about your local diving and ecosystem and to meet other divers. You can also chose a destination dive shop to complete your training in a new location or while on vacation.

PREREQUISITIES & MINIMUM AGE

Course prerequisites: PADI Open Water Diver, Junior Open Water Diver, or qualifying entry-level certification.

The minimum age to start the Advanced Open Water Diver course is 12.

• Divers 15 or older earn an Advanced Open Water Diver certification
• Divers between the age of 12-14 earn a Junior Advanced Open Water
• Diver certification Divers 10-11 can earn a Junior Adventure Diver certification. Upon turning 12, they can complete the deep dive and earn a Junior Advanced Open Water Diver certification.

DURATION

• 6-8 hours for the eLearning

MEDICAL REQUIREMENTS

Scuba diving requires a minimum level of health and fitness. Chronic health conditions, certain medications and/or recent surgery may require you to get written approval from a physician before diving.

Avoid disappointment, download and review the Diver Medical form to ensure you won’t need a physician’s approval to dive before enrolling in a scuba course. Instructors, divemasters and dive shop staff are not physicians and should not be asked for medical advice; only medical professionals can give medical clearance to dive.

If you (or your physician) have questions about medical fitness to dive, contact the experts at Divers Alert Network (DAN).

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

PADI’s online courses are designed to work on the browsers listed below. For the best experience, make sure your browser is up-to-date.

• Chrome
• Safari
• Edge
• Firefox

If you plan to be somewhere without internet access, use the PADI Training app to download course content and study offline. Content can be downloaded in small sections with a total file size of approximately 540 MB. When you get back online, upload your progress so you can resume your training right where you left off.

The PADI Training app is available for Android™ and Apple® iOS devices. For the ideal experience, devices should be no more than three models old and running with the most current OS (operating system).

COSTS

The Advanced Open Water certification requires both knowledge development and inwater training. When you purchase this PADI eLearning course from our website, the cost covers the knowledge development portion only.

There is an additional cost to complete your certification with a PADI Instructor. The cost depends on class size, environment, and whether or not you need to rent equipment. Contact a PADI Dive Center or Resort for more information and pricing.

In addition to basic scuba gear, you will need a compass, dive knife/tool, dive computer and student slate. If you don’t own these items, ask your dive shop about renting or purchasing these items.

You may also need specialized equipment for your specialty dives, such as a camera for underwater photography/videography. Your PADI Instructor will advise you about any specialized equipment you may need and how to get it.