Vancouver Scuba Diving School Advanced Open Water course
+ Drysuit Specialty course
Single diver: $700 Buddy pair: $1,200
* Prices include all taxes, PADI Adventures in Diving manual and AOW certification fees, all the equipment, transportation from downtown Vancouver on dive days, and a Drysuit Specialty course + certification card (a $350/diver value if taken separately).
Hooked on diving? Go to the next level
- Extend your skills and broaden the range of your experience.
- Qualify to visit the best dive sites when you travel, not just the shallow tourist reefs.
- Deep diving, Navigation, and Drysuit skills are at the core of the course.
- A Drysuit Specialty course is included to develop your cold water diving skills.
- Optional dives include an introduction to Wreck diving, Peak Performance Buoyancy, Night diving, Search & Recovery, Computer diving, and Species Identification.
- PADI requires that all Advanced Open Water students carry their own knife, compass and bottom timer/computer. A dive light is highly recommended. These and other gear items can be purchased at an affiliated dive shop where discounts and deals are negotiable.
Who should take this course and why you should take it
If you want dive confidently, break free of professional supervision, become your own dive leader and qualify to visit the best dive sites around the world, then you'll need to extend the range of your experience and begin to multitask underwater.
In the Advanced Open Water course, you'll work on buoyancy skills, gain more confidence and move the focus of your attention outward from yourself. You'll get better at planning and leading dives, and become a more aware and responsible buddy. You'll learn to dive down much deeper than you've been before. You'll start to really see, observe and learn the names of species you're visiting. You'll train to use your compass on every dive. You can learn to dive at night in a zero viz environment. You can learn how to plan and conduct an underwater search, and use lift bags to bring sunken treasures back to the surface. And more. The Advanced Open Water course is the next step on the journey.
Course Details
The course consists of five specialty Adventure dives. Read about the selected dives in your Adventures in Diving manual and Drysuit Specialty manual, and answer relevant questions. No exams.
- Set the dive schedule for sites including Porteau Cove, Whytecliff Park, Kelvin Grove and Britannia Beach . Boat diving at the Annapolis wreck site and Altitude fresh water dives at Pavilion Lake are available at an additional cost of $200. Click on the site name for details.
- There are five dives to be completed in one 2-tank day and one 3-tank day.
- Successful completion of the course will earn you the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver certification and the Drysuit Specialty card.
