The Adventures in Diving program offers both the Adventure Diver and Advanced Open Water Diver certifications. If you complete any three adventure dives, you can earn your PADI Adventure Diver certification. If you complete your Deep Adventure Dive, Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive and three Adventure Dives for a total of five, you can earn your Advanced Open Water Diver certification.

Why Advanced Open Water Diver?
After your five dives, you'll be more experienced, feel more comfortable in the water and simply enjoy diving more because you better understand the Underwater environment.

What do I need to start?

• PADI Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization)
• Minimum age: 15 (12 for PADI Junior Advanced Open Water Diver)

What will I do?

This certification includes five Adventure Dives, including the Deep Adventure dive, the Underwater Navigator

Adventure Dive and three of the following:

Altitude Diver Boat Diver
Drift Diver Deep Diver
Dry Suit Diver Dive Propulsion Vehicle
Multilevel Diver Night Diver
Peak Performance Buoyancy Search and Recovery
Underwater Naturalist Underwater Videographer
Underwater Photographer Underwater Navigator
AWARE Marine Life Marine Biology Fish Identification Wreck Diver

How long will it take?

• Recommended Course Hours: 15
• Minimum Open Water Training: five dives over two days

What will I need?

• Adventures in Diving Crew-Pak
• Adventures in Diving Video
• Log Book

Where can I go from here?

PADI Advanced Open Water Divers at least 15 years of age can enroll in PADI Wreck or Deep Diver Specialty courses and continue on to the PADI Rescue Diver or Junior Rescue Diver course.

PADI Adventure Dives can also credit towards the corresponding PADI Specialty Diver certifications. Contact PADI Master Instructor Monte Lee Thornton for more information on the PADI Adventures In Diving program.