PADI ADVANCED OPEN WATER

What It Is

The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course takes your training beyond the basics. You'll complete five adventure dives, each focused on a specific skill, such as navigation, deep diving, or buoyancy. It's a hands-on, in-water course designed to improve your confidence and capability underwater.

Who It’s For

Certified Open Water Divers ready to go deeper, dive longer, and experience more. Whether you’re planning future dive trips, want to explore new underwater environments, or simply boost your skills, this is your next step.

Options

Choose the Advanced Open Water path that suits your diving style and future goals:

• Standard – Includes 5 adventure dives: Deep, Underwater Navigation, Peak Performance Buoyancy, Drift, and Wreck.

  A solid upgrade from your Open Water certification, this package focuses on building skill and confidence across key dive specialties, this course can be completed over 2-3 days.

  
  

• Conservation – Focus your training on buoyancy and ocean health adding Peak Performance Buoyancy and Dive Against Debris specialties. Includes one extra day of diving (6 dives in total), two additional specialty certifications and PADI Club membership for one year.

  
  

• Skill Master – Take a giant step toward your pro path adding Enriched Air Nitrox and Deep Dive specialties, to dive up 40m/130ft. Earn additional certifications and dive the deepest and longer within recreational diving limits.

  This bundle includes 8 dives scheduled over 4-5 days, and the PADI Club membership for one year.

What You Learn:

• Refine your skills through core and elective dives

• Enhance your deep diving capabilities, including proper planning and risk management

• Master underwater navigation, improving precision and confidence

• Improve buoyancy and trim for better control and energy conservation

• Learn advanced techniques to handle a variety of diving environments and conditions

  
  

Extra learning with specialty bundles:

• Deepen your knowledge and skills in specialized diving activities, such as Deep, Enriched Air Nitrox, and more

• Strengthen your expertise in the specific dive areas that interest you the most through additional dives and training

Why Choose This Course

• Extend your depth range up to 40mt/130ft

• Get hands-on experience with navigation, buoyancy, and other key skills

• Start eLearning anytime and progress at your own pace

• Bundles include full specialty certifications—not just experience dives

• Choose options that align with your goals: conservation or advanced skills

• Fast, flexible, and ideal for travel, certification upgrades, or pro path

Where You Dive

Playa del Carmen offers the perfect mix of vibrant reef life and unique underwater environments. During your training dives, you’ll explore shallow coral gardens and deeper reef systems teeming with parrotfish, angelfish, moray eels, and curious nurse sharks. Encounters with graceful sea turtles are common, and from November to April, you might even add a Bull Shark dive to your experience. Want to take it further? Ask us about upgrading your training to include the world-famous Cozumel drift dives or the mystical freshwater cenotes just inland—two of the region’s most iconic diving adventures.

Pricing

• Standard: $499 USD

• Conservation Bundle: $669 USD

• Skill Master Bundle: $839 USD

Equipment rental and marine park fees included.

Take the Next Step

Pick your bundle and start your next underwater chapter. Whether you're leveling up for fun or future pro plans, this course opens the door to a whole new world.