PADI Advanced Open Water Diver

The theoretical part of the course is very “lightweight” compared to your initial course and a lot more focused on your interests in scuba diving.

You will receive your own PADI Advanced Open Water E-Manual which contains information about all the existing activities and adventure dives worldwide.

Out of these you will choose 3 dives as your elective dives on top of the 2 mandatory dives, which are your deep and navigation dives.

Once chosen you will work through the chapters which explain all the important information specific to this area of diving, plus a little section called “Thinking like a diver” which will make you more aware about the basics and safety you learned in previous courses.

For some dives, like navigation, there may be a little land practice before you go on the boat to make it easier for you to visualize the dives at hand.

There is no exam at the end of this course, you will pass the theory once you reviewed the Knowledge Reviews with your instructor.

You will take a total of 5 Adventure Dives over two or three days depending on your choice of dives, time frame and preference.

We always try to adjust your schedule depending on the dive sites chosen for the day as well as comfort and experience level.

In general, some of the dives like Navigation or Buoyancy Control Diving ask for slightly shallower sites and we use those to get started to work on air consumption, general underwater skills and to get to know each other on Day 1 of your course.

As you will be taking a Deep Dive, we generally combine this with some other dives that are naturally deeper (like our favourite, Wreck Dive) on the second day of the course.

Depending on your choice of dives you may be joining our night dive trip on either day of your course, take another dive on either day or simply stay another day and take the remaining dive together with a fun dive to get even more experience. It’s up to you!

Your Dive options:
It will be tricky to do an ice dive in El Salvador, but these are your local options here:

Deep Dive
Navigation Dive
Rescue Adventure Dive
Wreck Dive*
Night Dive*
Peak Performance Buoyancy
Search and Recovery
altitude
Project AWARE Fish I.D.
Boat Diving
Underwater Imaging*
*extra charges apply

You can read more about these dives in the description of the Specialties they relate to, as each individual Adventure dive counts as the first dive of that PADI specialty!