Advanced Open Water Diver

Underwater Adventures as You Learn New Skills

  • 5 specialty Dives for Advanced Open Water Diver.
  • Emphasis on learning additional skills specific to your interests during actual open water dives.
  • Continue to develop your dive skills.
  • Be more confident in and around the water.
  • Dive where only divers with advanced training can go.
  • Develop skills that introduce you to deep diving and underwater navigation.
  • You and your instructor can choose from 10 other available specialties including night diving.
  • This course can be completed in as little as 2 days.
  • $150.00 With the purchase of any Planet Scuba dive trip.
  • Each dive credited toward corresponding specialty diver programs. See the list below

If you are either an Open Water Certified Dive or an Advanced Open Water Diver, you can increase your Diving skills by opting for a Specialty course while on any Planet Scuba escorted dive trip.

Planet Scuba can offer almost any PADI Recognized Specialty. Choose from the table below. Please ask us about scheduling and pricing.

Specialty Minimum Age Required Hours Training Prerequisite
Equipment Specialist 10 6 None Jr Open Water or Open Water
Night Diver 12 12 3 Dives on 2 Nights Jr Open Water or Open Water
Deep Diver 15 12 4 Dives on 2 Days Advanced Open Water
Underwater Navigator 10 24 3 Dives on 2 Days Jr Open Water or Open Water
Underwater Photographer 10 12 2 Dives on 1 Day Jr Open Water or Open Water
Search and Recovery Diver 15 24 4 Dives on 2 Days Advanced Open Water or Advanced Plus
Multilevel Diver 12 - 2 Dives on 1 Day Jr Open Water or Open Water
Drift Diver 12 - 2 Dives on 1 Day Jr Open Water or Open Water
Underwater Naturalist 10 - 2 Dives on 1 Day Jr Open Water or Open Water
Boat Diver 10 - 2 Dives on 1 Day Jr Open Water or Open Water
Underwater Hunter 12 12 2 Dives on 1 Day Jr Open Water or Open Water

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