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Advanced Open Water Diver

Experience new adventures with the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course. As you step beyond the PADI Open Water Diver level, you make five dives and have the opportunity to try some of diving's most rewarding and useful specialty activites, such as deep diving, digital underwater photography, night diving and much more. This license allows you to dive anywhere in the world to a maximum depth of 30 meters/100 feet without professional supervision.

With your PADI Instructor you complete the deep and underwater navigation Adventure Dives. These dives boost your confidence as you build these foundational skills. Then, you choose three additional dives from night diving, search and recovery, Fish ID, underwater nature study, multilevel and computer diving, peak performance buoyancy, underwater photography, enriched air amongst other adventures.

General course information:

  • Duration: 2-3 days
  • Must be a PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization) and 15 years old (12 for Junior Advanced Open Water Diver) 
  • Number of dives: Five dives 
  • Includes: Adventures in Diving manual and work slate
  • All scuba equipment provided

    Price: $295    I want to dive in Costa Rica!

    Book a Local 2 Tank Dive Trip in Manuel Antonio with your Dive course and dive for only $80!!
    (normal price for dive trip $95, only valid with direct bookings and only for Oceans dive students)

Want to spend more of your vacation diving?

Sign & do your PADI Advanced Open Water theory online with eLearning!

PADI eLearning

With PADI eLearning do your bookwork before arriving in Costa Rica! You choose from 7 of the most popular Adventure Dives for course, the 2 required topics Deep and Underwater Navigation; then you can choose 3 dives from Peak Performance Boyancy, Night, Wreck, Underwater Naturalist or Boat Diver. When you arrive in Costa Rica all you have left to do is is the diving!


Pay $180 in country at Oceans Unlimited to complete your course in 2 days. There is a charge of $120 paid to PADI upon signing up for the course, this pays for you online training; the $180 charge is to complete your certification course at Oceans Unlimited in Costa Rica. Total cost is $300.
 PADI eLearning Sign up for Advanced Open Water course online today!


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