PADI Advanced Open Water Course
Let's level up!
If you are looking for experiences underwater and want to increase your diving knowledge, this is your course.
Under the direction of an expert instructor you will visit several of the best dive sites in Playa del Carmen.
To earn the Advanced Open Water Diver certificate, you need to complete 5 adventure dives, including Deep Diving and Underwater Navigation, plus 3 additional ones that you can choose with us.
This course takes a minimum of three days.
12 years
3 days
Open Water
40 m / 130 ft
4
Minimum age
Total hours
Minimum level
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Maximum people
PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course starts at 8:00 am with a review of the questionnaire on the different chapters of the Advanced Open Water Diver Manual, which takes the whole morning. After lunch, we plan the dives together and explain the requirements to be met on each of the course's adventure dives.
The boat leaves at 1:00 pm and we head for our first dive, the warm-up for the 5 dives of the Advanced Open Water Diver course. Our list of priorities always starts with safety and learning, followed by enjoying and having fun in the underwater world.
These are the dives for the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver:
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Underwater Navigation (required)
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Deep Diving (required)
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Peak Performance Buoyancy
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Fish Identification
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Wreck Diving
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Drift Diving
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Underwater Naturalist
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Night Diving
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Boat Diving
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Project AWARE
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Shark (November – February, SURCHARGE)
This certification is recognized all over the world. Once you have completed the objectives of the Advanced Open Water Diver course, we will be delighted to certify you.
Alternatively, the theory part of the Advanced Open Water Diver course can be completed before you arrive in Mexico.
Children from 12 to 14 years old can earn the Junior Advanced Open Water Diver certificate. The maximum depth for Advanced Open Water Diver is 30 meters; for Junior Advanced Open Water the maximum depth is 21 meters.
1. Theoretical lesson, test and exam
2. Pool training.
3. Minimum of 5 dives in our Caribbean Sea at a maximum depth of 40 meters.
4. Instructor
5. Tanks, weights and water
6. Equipment rental
7. Certification