PADI Advanced Open Water Introduction

The Adventures in Diving program offers both the Adventure Diver and Advanced Open Water Diver certifications. If you complete any three adventure dives, you can earn your PADI Adventure Diver certification. If you complete your Deep Adventure Dive, Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive and three Adventure Dives for a total of five, you can earn your Advanced Open Water Diver certification.

Why Advanced Open Water Diver?
After your five dives, you'll be more experienced, feel more comfortable in the water and simply enjoy diving more because you better understand the underwater environment.

What do I need to start?
PADI Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization)
Minimum age: 15 (12 for PADI Junior Advanced Open Water Diver)

What will I do?
This certification includes five Adventure Dives, including the Deep Adventure dive, the Underwater Navigator

Adventure Dive and three of the following:
Altitude Diver Boat Diver
Drift Diver Deep Diver
Dry Suit Diver Dive Propulsion Vehicle
Multilevel Diver Night Diver
Peak Performance Buoyancy Search and Recovery
Underwater Naturalist Underwater Videographer
Underwater Photographer Underwater Navigator
AWARE Fish Identification Wreck Diver

How long will it take?
Recommended Course Hours: 15
Minimum Open Water Training: five dives over two days

What will I need?
Adventures in Diving Crew-Pak
Adventures in Diving Video
Log Book

Where can I go from here?
PADI Advanced Open Water Divers at least 15 years of age can enroll in PADI Wreck or Deep Diver Specialty courses and continue on to the PADI Rescue Diver or Junior Rescue Diver course.

Pirate's Cove Advanced Water Certification

Cost: $199. Please refer to our $199 program for more info.

Equipment:equipment rental for the class is $100 for the 5 dives. You will need to stop at the shop to be fitted for your wet suit and pick up your equipment before your open water training. You will get a wet suit, hood, gloves, your BC and regulator as well as 2 tanks and a map to the dive site.

Classroom: There is no classroom for the advanced open water, simply read the chapters for the dives that you do and turn in to the instructor when you do the dives.

Required Classes: The class includes 5 dives, a navigation dive and a deep dive (over 80 feet) are required, and we offer several other dive options, including search and recovery, naturalist, boat, wreck, diver propulsion vehicle and night dives.

Location: Dives are usually at Lake Nagawicka, we meet at the beach house next to the boat launch. To get there from Milwaukee, take 1-94 West toward Madison, exit HWY 83 and head north. After you Pass the Nagawaukee Ice Center, you will pass the entrance to Nagawaukee Park on your left, take the next left, which will take you down to the boat launch area. If you pass a church on your right, you went too far. You will need to unload your equipment and park at the top of the hill, parking is $4.00 per day during the summer.