PADI Advanced Open Water Course
This course can be taken after completing the Basic Open Water Course. You do not have to be an "advanced diver" to take this course, it is designed to advance your skills. Whether you have five dives, or one hundred, this course will meet you where your skills are, and advance your diving from there, as well as broaden your awareness of the environment you're diving in.
This class consists of independent book work and five open water dives, including a Peak Performance Buoyancy dive, Navigation dive, Night dive, Deep dive, and Search and Recovery Dive.
Cost: $300
Includes: Included in the cost of the course is all classroom time and materials, and all pool time and equipment needed. Also included are all certification fees.
Additional Costs: Students are responsible for costs associated with the open water weekend including, but not limited to: gas, food, accommodation, and air fills.
Students are also responsible for renting, or providing, their own equipment for the open water weekend. Students must purchase/ supply their own dive lights (including a primary, back-up, and tank marker light), compass, cutting device, dive computer and a dive slate.
Requirements:
Must be 12 years or older
Must be comfortable in water
Must be Basic Open Water Certified
Location: Classroom session is completed at home by eLearning or in a class group setting in the Portland metro area. The pool sessions will be held at a local pool in the Portland metro area. and the open water weekend checkout dives are located in the Hood Canal or Puget Sound in Washington.
To Sign up: Please call, text, or email to sign up! Classes must have four students enrolled to proceed, and there must be at least four students for an instructor to hold an open water weekend.
If you are interested in a private course that can be arranged please contact for more details.
Available Classes
Advanced Open Water weekend will be in either Puget Sound or Hood Cannel. You will need to schedule an individual time to go over remote paperwork and book learning requirements.
Available Advanced Open Water Weekend Dates (the certification only requires one weekend)
May 18th and 19th 2024
July 20th and 21st 2024
October 26th and 27th 2024