PADI Advanced Open Water Course

COURSE DESCRIPTION
The 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).

PREREQUISITES
Anyone 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 CONTENT
Class 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.

2023
Sunday Navigation, Buoyancy	Boat	1/8 Raptor Channel Islands	8:00 AM
Saturday - Deep, Naturalist, Buoyancy	Boat	1/28 Spectre Charter Islands
Sunday - Navigation, Search and Recovery	Beach	1/29  Morro Bay	7AM
Sunday - Buoyancy, Navigation	Shore	2/25 Morro Bay	TBA
Wednesday Night	Shore	3/1 Morro Bay	6:30
Sunday - Deep, Fish ID, Photo, or Naturalist	Boat	3/11 Spectre Charter	TBA
Saturday - Buoyancy,  Navigation	Shore	4/1 Beach Dive	TBA
Saturday - Deep, Buoyancy, Digital Photo, Fish ID	Boat	/ Boat Dive	7AM
Sunday - Buoyancy, Navigation	Shore	4/ Beach Dive	TBA
Sunday -Buoyancy, Navigation	Shore	4/22 AM Beach Dive	8AM
Sunday - Navigation Search and Recovery	Shore	5/14 AM Beach Dive	8AM
Sunday - Deep, Buoyancy, Digital Photo, Fish ID	Boat	5/29 Spectre Boat Charter	7AM
Friday - Night Dive	Shore	6/2 Beach Dive	TBD
Saturday - Deep, Buoyancy, Digital Photo, Fish ID	Boat	6/4 Beach Dives, Navigation, Search and Recovery	8:00 AM
Saturday - Buoyancy, Navigation	Shore	6/ 11 Spectre Boat Dive
Saturday - Deep, Buoyancy, Naturalist	Shore	7/1 Spectre Boat Dive	TBA
Sunday - Buoyancy, Navigation	Shore	7/16 Beach Dive
Saturday-  Deep, Naturalist, Buoyancy or Photo	Boat	8/ Spectre Boat Dive	TBA
Sunday Navigation Search and Recovery	Shore	9/ Beach Dive
Saturday Deep Buoyancy, Fish ID	Boat	10/ Spectre Boat Dives