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PADI Advanced Open Water Certification: A Smorgasbord of Diving

With its extensive menu of options, PADI provides many ways to satisfy your hunger for adventures in diving. PADI Advanced Open Water certification is a perfect example. Bon appetit!

Available through a PADI Dive Center, you can feast on many of the selections from the smorgasbord of the diving menu. Certification includes three core dives (night, navigation, and deep), as well as choices from many elective dives.

The underwater world is dramatically different at night. You'll find yourself mesmerized by the changes that occur at night. To enjoy diving even more, you'll need to sharpen your navigation skills. With this in mind, PADI Advanced Open Water certification includes at least one dive to work on your natural and compass navigation techniques. A deep dive is another unique experience. The environmental changes, like color absorption and water temperature, make for a fascinating dive.

Along with these three core dives, PADI's Advanced Open Water program features two additional dives. The choices include: altitude; multilevel; photography; boat; naturalist; search and recovery; wreck; drift; dry suit; and peak performance buoyancy. These dives add to the skills and enjoyment level of Advanced Open Water divers.

Boat diving is the perfect appetizer to add to diving possibilities and this may be one of those dives that helps to enhance your diving opportunities overall. For those who have a taste for taking pictures, look to the underwater photography dive to capture memories of diving.

This program may also provide the perfect opportunity to try wreck diving. It's not unusual for a first-time wreck diver to feel awe while exploring the superstructure of a ship that once sailed the oceans. After completing your wreck dive, you may wonder how to increase your bottom time on wrecks. Multilevel diving skills accomplish this goal, as you learn to plan and execute multilevel dives.

The underwater naturalist dive will interest any nature lover. Taking time to understand the wonders of the marine world makes for more conscientious divers. To protect this natural world, it may be a good idea to devote a dive specifically toward achieving peak performance buoyancy.

If you tend to misplace things, you may want to devote a dive toward practicing search and recovery techniques. This may be just the thing you need to find lost equipment.

Drift diving may be another dive to whet your appetite. Who wouldn't love a leisurely dive, enjoying the scenery as you effortlessly drift along on the dive.

Depending on where you live or dive, your adventures in diving may not be complete without a dry suit dive. Those dive sites that you have shied away from during frigid weather may soon be accessible.

You can even learn about diving at altitude by participating in altitude dive. This can open up those pristine mountain dive sites as you learn how to calculate your dive profiles using unique depth conversions.

The PADI Advanced Open Water program menu offers a wide variety of diving options. Just place your order to satisfy even the most hardy diving appetite.