Continue to develop your dive skills and experience even more of the underwater world. You will have the option to select specialty dives that are most interesting and exciting to you. So don't delay, begin your PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course online today!

Exploration, Excitement, Experiences!! They’re what the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course is all about. And no, you don’t have to be “advanced” to take it – it’s designed so you can go straight into it after the PADI Open Water Diver course.

The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course helps you increase your confidence and build your scuba skills so you can become more comfortable in the water.

This is a great way to get more dives under your belt while continuing to learn under the supervision of your PADI instructor.

What do I need to start?
You must be a PADI Open Water Diver before participating in any inwater training. You need to be at least 13 years old to participate in PADI eLearning, due to international internet laws. If you’re younger than this, you can still learn to dive – have your parent or legal guardian contact us here at the Dive Centre to enrol you on the Standard PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course.

What will I do?

The online version of the PADI Adventures in Diving program will include knowledge development for the two required topics – the Deep and Underwater Navigation Dives – along with five of the most popular elective dives. These include Night Diver, Peak Performance Buoyancy, Wreck Diver, Boat Diver and Underwater Naturalist. As with the PADI Open Water Diver course, the entire PADI Adventures in Diving manual will be available online to divers enrolled in the course.

The PADI Advanced Open Water course consists of 5 adventure dives. These dives are designed to develop a divers abilities by introducing them to a number of exciting different diving experiences. The aim of the program is to have loads of fun underwater while learning new skills which will be used during many of your future dives. The PADI Advanced Open Water must include both the Deep Dive* and the Navigation Dives*. The complete list of PADI Adventure Dives is as follows:

• AWARE Fish Id
• Boat Diver
• Deep Diver*
• Drift Diver
• Dry Suit Diver
• Multilevel & Computer
• Night Diver
• Peak Performance Buoyancy
• Search & Recovery
• Underwater Naturalist
• Underwater Navigation*
• Underwater Photography
• Wreck Diver

Each of the Adventure dives completed during the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver program can be counted as the first dive of each corresponding PADI Specialty. For example, if you choose to complete the PADI Dry Suit Adventure dive during the course, you will only need to complete one more training dive to have earned yourself the PADI Dry Suit Specialty Certification. Its that easy.... Click the links above to give you more information about each of the PADI Specialty Diver programs.

The course fee includes slate, equipment hire (drysuit only included for Drysuit Adventure dives) and certification fee. A suggested PADI Advanced Open Water course conducted in Malta could contain the following Adventure Dives:

• Day 1 (full day, starts 9am)          
       Peak Performance Buoyancy or Dry Suit Diver
       Digital Underwater Photography
       DPV
• Day 2 (full day, starts 9am)
       Deep
       Wreck

What's included in the course fee?

• Equipment Hire
• Air Fills
• Training

What's next?

After you’ve tried a specialty in the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course, you’ll probably want to take the whole Specialty course, you may also want to further your diving skills with the PADI Rescue Diver course.