PADI Advanced Open Water Course

COURSE DESCRIPTIONThe Advanced Open Water (AOW) Certification Course is designed to expand upon skills learned in the
Open Water course. It's a good course to take if you want to improve your diving skills quickly or if you haven't been diving recently. SLO Ocean Currents specializes in having a great time while accelerating the learning experience. AOW is a compact, high-impact diving program that emphasizes diving over formal class sessions. It provides the novice diver with a structured, well-supervised means to gain the practical experience needed after entry-level certification. This course will allow you to participate in various underwater activities that will broaden both your awareness of the underwater environment and your capabilities as a diver.
You will be expanding your diving horizons into Compass and Natural Navigation, Deep Diving and 3 Elective Dives (either , Boat, Drift, Dry Suit, Night diving, Peak Performance Buoyancy, Search & Recovery, Underwater Naturalist, Fish ID, Underwater Photography, or Wreck Diving). This course is offered by SLO Ocean Currents in a variety of formats (see Schedule or call SLO Ocean Currents for details).
PREREQUISITESAnyone at least 15 years of age(12 for Jr AOW max depth of 70 feet) with a valid Scuba Certification Card is eligible for this course, regardless of the issuing certification agency. For class dives, you must supply a complete Scuba diving system (including a surface signaling device, a cutting tool and Timing Device);
equipment rental is available to our AOW students at Half Price! For the Night Dive, you will also need a primary dive light back-up light and a surface light. Advanced Open Water is also a prerequisite for the
PADI Rescue Diver course and for many
PADI Specialty courses.
COURSE CONTENTClass Session (Prior to dive on site). Pre-Dive Briefings and Open Water Dives: Natural and Compass Navigation Dive, Deep Dive, and 3 facility-elected dives.
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Sunday Navigation, Buoyancy |
Boat |
1/8 Raptor Channel Islands |
8:00 AM |
Saturday - Deep, Naturalist, Buoyancy |
Boat |
1/28 Spectre Charter Islands |
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Sunday - Navigation, Search and Recovery |
Beach |
1/29 Morro Bay |
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Sunday - Buoyancy, Navigation |
Shore |
2/25 Morro Bay |
TBA |
Sunday - Deep, Fish ID, Photo, or Naturalist |
Boat |
Spectre Charter |
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Saturday - Buoyancy, Navigation |
Shore |
Beach Dive |
TBA |
Saturday - Deep, Buoyancy, Digital Photo, Fish ID |
Boat |
3/ Boat Dive |
7AM |
Sunday - Buoyancy, Navigation |
Shore |
3/ Beach Dive |
TBA |
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Saturday -Buoyancy, Navigation |
Shore |
4/ AM Beach Dive |
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Sunday - Deep, Buoyancy, Digital Photo, Fish ID |
Boat |
4/ Raptor Boat Charter |
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Saturday - Deep, Buoyancy, Digital Photo, Fish ID |
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6/ Raptor Boat Charter |
8:00 AM |
Saturday - Buoyancy, Navigation |
Shore |
6/ 4/2 AM Beach Dive |
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Saturday - Deep, Buoyancy, Digital Photo, Fish ID |
Shore |
7/Spectre Boat Dive |
TBA |
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Sunday - Buoyancy, Navigation |
Shore |
7/ Beach Dive |
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Saturday- Deep, Naturalist, Buoyancy or Photo |
Boat |
8/ Spectre Boat Dive |
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Sunday Navigation Search and Recovery |
Shore |
9/ Beach Dive |
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Saturday Deep Buoyancy, Fish ID |
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10/ Spectre Boat Dives |
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