Advanced Open Water

The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course, offered by Mola Mola Dive, is your next step in expanding your underwater capabilities. Building directly on your Open Water Diver certification, this program is structured around five PADI Adventure Dives. Two dives are mandatory: Deep Diving, which will teach you to manage gas, oxygen, and the risks of decompression sickness, and Underwater Navigation, where you'll hone your compass skills and natural navigation techniques. These core dives prepare you for depths up to 30 meters (100 feet), a significant increase from your initial certification.

The remaining three Adventure Dives are chosen by you, allowing for a personalized learning experience. Options include specialties like Night Diving, Wreck Diving, Peak Performance Buoyancy, or Underwater Photography, each supervised by a certified PADI instructor. This flexibility ensures you explore areas of diving that genuinely interest you, gaining practical experience and confidence in diverse underwater scenarios. Mola Mola Dive emphasizes hands-on application throughout the course.

This certification is a crucial stepping stone for any diver aiming to progress further. It's a prerequisite for advanced training such as the PADI Rescue Diver course and numerous PADI Specialty Diver courses. Achieving your Advanced Open Water Diver certification signifies a higher level of diving competence and opens doors to more challenging and rewarding dive sites worldwide. The course at Mola Mola Dive is designed to be progressive, allowing students to advance at their own pace while ensuring all learning objectives are met.

Mola Mola Dive provides this course with a strong focus on safety and practical skill development. The program is flexible, accommodating individual learning speeds while adhering to all PADI standards. This essential step for divers looking to go beyond basic certification is available with instruction in both English and Spanish, catering to a diverse range of students. The center's commitment is to provide a thorough and enjoyable advanced diving education.