PADI Advanced Open Water Diver

The PADI Advanced Open Water course is designed for divers who wish professional instruction in deep diving and navigation or wish to pursue other intermediate and advanced level scuba courses such as the PADI Rescue Diver course. Students must complete a total of five adventure dives, two of which must be deep and navigation. Students are also asked to view the PADI Adventures in Diving DVD and read and complete the knowledge reviews in the PADI Adventures in Diving manual for each dive they elect to do.

Prerequisites: PADI Open Water Diver or qualifying certification from another agency; logged open water dive within the last 3 months or completion of the PADI Scuba Review course within the last 8 weeks
Books: PADI Adventures in Diving Manual

Required: PADI Adventures in Diving Manual, Dive Light, Dive Knife, Slate
Course cost: $139 (books, Lake Michigan Charter Fee and equipment rental not included)

 Classroom training is held at Aquatic Adventures on a weeknight, and three dives are generally conducted at an inland training lake on Saturday, while the remaining two dives are usually held on Lake Michigan on Sunday.