The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (AOWD) course is designed to enhance your diving skills and experience. Here’s what the course involves:

• Five Adventure Dives: The course includes a deep dive, an underwater navigation dive, and three specialty dives of your choice.
• Specialty Options: You can choose from specialties like Drift Diving, Night Diving, Peak Performance Buoyancy, and more.
• No Exams: Unlike the Open Water Diver course, there’s no final exam. It’s all about practical experience.
• Prerequisites: You must have an Open Water Diver/Junior Open Water Diver certification or equivalent.
• Age Requirement: The minimum age to enroll is 12 years.
• Depth: The maximum depth you’ll dive depends on your age, but it can be up to 30 meters/100 feet¹.
• Duration: The course typically takes 2-3 days to complete.
• eLearning: PADI offers eLearning options that cover 13 popular specialty dives, which you can study before practical sessions.

Equipment requirements for Advanced Open Water course: 

Students must provide: All basic scuba equipment required in Open water course, underwater slate, compass, computer surface signaling device (SMB/DSMB), dive knife or tool, Dive lights primary and backup, tank marker light.

Recommended:  Regulator, octopus, computer, gauges, Buoyancy Controlled Device (BCD), Wet suit and tanks.

Rental Gear: Regulator and Alternate air source, Computer/gauges, Buoyancy Control Device (BCD), Wet Suit and tanks.

Students receive a 10% discount on all products in store when actively enrolled in a course with Space Coast Dive Center. 

What Space Coast Dive Center provides for Advanced Open Water.

• All E learning and classroom instruction.
• All fees associated with the pool, dive sites, and boat fees
• 5 dives over two days. Core dives are Navigation and Deep.
• A temporary electronic certification card.

The AOWD course is about gaining more diving experience, practicing navigation, improving buoyancy, and sampling different types of diving. It’s a great way to explore new underwater activities and develop your diving skills further.

Courses will need a minumum of 3 students to begin. If you sign up for a course that has less than 3 students 1 week before start date we will reach out to reschedule you for another class.

* If you are unable to complete the schedule you sign up for there will be a rescheduling fee of $25 for each session that needs to be rescheduled greater than a 72 hour notice, less than 72 hours will be a $50 reschedule fee per session rescheduled.