PADI Course
Advanced
Your first certification opened the door to the underwater world. Now it’s time to explore beyond it.
The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course helps certified divers build confidence, improve practical scuba diving skills, and experience exciting underwater adventures through five guided dives led by experienced PADI Professionals.
You’ll complete two core Adventure Dives—Deep Dive and Underwater Navigation—while choosing three additional Adventure Dives that match your interests, including Night Diving, Wreck Diving, Peak Performance Buoyancy, or Digital Underwater Imaging.
Furthermore, every dive strengthens your experience, expands your comfort in different underwater environments, and prepares you for more challenging recreational scuba diving opportunities. Most importantly, you’ll discover a new world beneath the surface, gain the confidence to explore it safely, and continue your journey with a supportive diving community that inspires lifelong learning and unforgettable adventures.
Every adventure dive expands your confidence, strengthens real-world diving skills, and unlocks extraordinary underwater experiences that transform certified divers into confident lifelong ocean explorers.
PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course
Explore More. Dive Further. Become a More Confident Diver.
PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course
Certification - Go Beyond The Reef
- Why Take the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course?
The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course gives certified divers supervised experience across multiple underwater environments. You will complete the Deep and Underwater Navigation Adventure Dives, then choose three additional dives based on your interests, local conditions, and instructor planning.
The course is designed to build experience—not to make you an expert in every specialty. Each dive introduces new techniques and decision-making skills while helping you become more comfortable and capable within your current certification limits.
- What you will Learn ?
You will practise deep-diving procedures, underwater navigation, buoyancy and positioning, and the skills associated with your three selected Adventure Dives. Your instructor will adapt the dive plan to your experience, certification level, conditions, and local site availability.
- Train on the UAE East Coast
Complete your Adventure Dives at selected UAE East Coast sites, including locations around Fujairah, Dibba, Khorfakkan, or other areas available for your booking. Final site selection depends on weather, sea conditions, boat operations, certification limits, and instructor planning.
Pre-requisite
PADI Open Water Diver | Junior Open Water Diver certification
Age
15 Age | Able to swim | PADI's Medical form
Learn How to
Be confident exploring upto 30 meters | Navigation | Much more...
Take this course if you want to
Night Dive | Wreck Dive | Deep Dive
Equipment
All basic equipment provided.
Depth Limit
Maximum depth is 30 meter.
PADI e-Learning
Complete the required PADI eLearning before your five practical Adventure Dives.
Course Duration
Over 2 days | 5 Open Water Dives
PADI e-Certification
Digital PADI Advanced Open Water Diver certification issued upon successful completion
Related Course
Nitrox | Deep | Wreck | Night
Elective Dives:
Choose Three Adventure Dives That Match Your Goals
After completing the two core Adventure Dives, choose three additional dives from the options available through Diver’s Wave. These specialized dives allow divers to choose from a variety of adventures such as
Digital Underwater Imaging |Â Search & Recovery | Wreck Diving |Â Fish Identification |Â Drift Diving |Â Night Diving |Â Peak Performance Buoyancy
Additional Benefits
- Build supervised experience in deeper and unfamiliar environments
- Improve navigation, buoyancy, and dive-planning awareness
- Explore new dive sites and choose electives aligned with your interests
- Create a clear progression toward PADI Rescue Diver and further specialties
The course combines required core skills with flexible elective choices, giving you a structured way to gain experience while focusing on the underwater activities that interest you most.
Core Dives :
Deep Adventure Dive & Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive
In the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course, you’ll learn a variety of skills that help you become a more confident and capable diver. The course is designed to expand your knowledge and experience by allowing you to practice new techniques in different diving environments.
Build the Foundations of Confident Exploration – Core Dives:Â
- Deep Dive – Learn how depth affects gas use, pressure, no-decompression planning, and buoyancy while completing a supervised deep-diving experience within the applicable limits.
- Underwater Navigation – Develop compass and natural-navigation skills to improve orientation, route planning, and decision-making in unfamiliar underwater environments.
Select Course
Choose from a range of options for your next adventure. PADI courses, diving trips or snorkeling.
Basic Information
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Forms
After we have checked all eligibility criteria, fill in PADI Forms & prerequisite documents.
Review & Pay
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