This applies to which ever dive school you trained with. With your Open Water certification you can already dive to 18 metres 60 feet. But also to build familiarity with your diving equipment. It takes time to fully control your buoyancy and to safely ascend from dives with confidence. Regarding my recommendation in point 3 above: Think about it in relation to driving a car.
Which means that if you did no other dives other than your training dives. If you then went straight to your Advanced Open Water Diver certification. But then you were taken out by a driving instructor on ten minute drives. At the end of those minutes of driving would you feel comfortable calling yourself an Advanced Driver? I doubt it. I don't know how advanced I am, but I am a better diver for having those dives. It depends on the person and their comfort level and what they bring into it.
I felt comfortable taking the AOW class. I have had two really great instructors who have taught me very well. I am by no means an advanced diver, but I have a better understanding of diving skills that I did not have before taking AOW. RJP said:. DCBC Banned. I never took an Advanced Diver program. The progression back then was from Diver to Instructor. When profit came into the picture, the Diver training program was divided into Diver, Advanced and Rescue. Instructor was divided into Divemaster, Assistant Instructor and Instructor.
As Agencies emerged, they each changed the certification names to suit their own particular training philosophy. You must log in or register to reply here. Similar threads. What really is an "Advanced Open Water" diver? JW59 Aug 23, Advanced Scuba 26 27 Replies Views 8, Oct 25, Bearded Diver. Advanced open water dives :. Alurpal Oct 16, Basic Scuba. Replies 7 Views Oct 18, Doc Harry. Taking Open Water course for the 2nd time Both will include some theoretical knowledge development however there is no exam at the end of it.
After you complete either of these courses you are what is commonly known as an Advanced Open Water Diver AOW and are allowed to dive to 30 m. What is this? This is a certification you get after finishing 4 specialty courses which usually entail a certain amount of open water dives. Either you can count the adventure dive towards the corresponding specialty or count one of the specialty dives as part of your Advanced Adventurer dives.
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