PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Certification

Cozumel Scuba Dive Courses with Dive Paradise

Expand your scuba skills and try out new specialties with our seasoned Instructors!

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PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course Description

A fun course to advance your diving skills and try new Adventure Dives with our seasoned Instructors in Cozumel’s beautiful reef system!

This course is designed to further develop diving skills and expose divers to the variety of adventures available underwater. It can be taken after completing the PADI Open Water Diver certification. Dive Paradise can take you on five or more dives to complete this certification over a 2 day period, to help build confidence and expand your scuba skills.

PADI Advanced Open Water Skills

This course is designed to further develop diving skills and expose divers to the variety of adventures available underwater. It can be taken after completing the PADI Open Water Diver certification. Dive Paradise can take you on five or more dives to complete this certification over a 2 day period, to help build confidence and expand your scuba skills.

Pricing and Reservations

PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course

3 shore dives & 2 boat dives

  • advance/online: $446 USD
  • regular/walk-in: $7780 MX Pesos

1 shore dive & 4 boat dives

  • advance/online: $621 USD
  • regular/walk-in: $10,820 MX Pesos

Adventure Diver upgrade to Advanced OWD:
2 boat dives

  • advance/online: $344 USD
  • regular/walk-in: $6000 MX Pesos

SSI Instruction Available

$USD prices above are available through our USA office if booking at least 72+hrs in advance. 

Our on-island shop accepts $USD at the conversion rate posted in the shop.

PADI e-Learning

To get a head start, consider enrolling in PADI’s Advanced Open Water Diver online e-learning course.  This online preparatory course is supplemental and does not replace your in-person Dive Paradise Instruction in Cozumel, though it can speed up your on-island classroom time and get you in the water faster!

Additional Fees

Marine Park Fee:
• The MX National Marine Park Authority charges a $109 MXN Pesos fee for each day of diving.  Must be paid in Cash.  Dive Paradise collects this fee on behalf of the Marine Park during your check-in upon arrival.   Rate subject to change per the National Marine Park Authority.

Materials:
• $1660 MX Pesos Adventures in Diving manual, RDP table, sausage and whistle.

Processing:
• $960 MX Pesos PADI Certification processing – PIC 

Book Online
Schedule and Duration

Schedule
• Flexible. You will meet with your instructor to decide the specifics.

Duration
• 2 Days

Availability
• Daily with the possible exception of Christmas Day and New Years Day.

Meeting point

Check-in at any of our beach front dive shops and you will be connected with one of our instructors who will set up the specific details of your dives.

What's Included

Activity Inclusions:
• A shore dive for Underwater Navigation, with personalized attention of a PADI instructor.
• Tanks (80 cu ft)
Substitutions: 60 cu ft (complimentary) or 100 cu ft ($220 MXN Pesos upgrade) available upon request.

Additional Information

Minimum Age
• PADI (Junior) Open Water Divers who are at least 12 years old are ready to step up and enroll in an Advanced Open Water Diver course.
• Young divers may only participate in certain Adventures Dives – check with your PADI Instructor.

Additional Information
• Rental Gear fees not included.
• ** For this course, you are required to have one audible emergency surface signaling device (whistle, etc.). A dive sausage is also strongly recommended.
• If you’re already an Adventure Diver (a rating for someone who has completed Deep and Underwater Navigation dives plus one Adventure Dive), you only need to complete two more Adventure Dives to earn the Advanced Open Water Diver certification.
• Group discounts available on all instruction – inquire via email HERE.
• Prices include Mexican tax.

PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course

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PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course

PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course Overview

This course is designed to further develop diving skills and expose divers to the variety of adventures available underwater. It can be taken after completing the PADI Open Water Diver certification. Dive Paradise can take you on five or more dives to complete this certification over a 2 day period, to help build confidence and expand your scuba skills.

Detailed Scuba Dive Class Itinerary

You don’t have to be “advanced” to take this course! It’s designed to advance your diving, so you can start right after earning your PADI Open Water Diver certification. The course helps build confidence and expand your scuba skills through a variety of Adventure Dives. Your PADI Instructor will meet with you to schedule knowledge review sessions along with your Adventure Dives.

PADI requires five dives to complete Advanced Open Water Certification – two are specified by PADI: 1) Underwater Navigation and 2) Deep Diving, plus you must complete three additional Adventure Dives of your choice. Dive Paradise can take you on a minimum of 5 different Adventure Dives over a 2 day period to help build confidence and expand your scuba skills, for completion of this certification.

We suggest this plan:

Included in your Advanced Open Water course with Dive Paradise is a shore dive for Underwater Navigation.

You can then schedule boat dives for Deep Diving plus three other Adventure Dives to complete the certification.

To take advantage of the beauty of Cozumel’s reef system and Dive Paradise’s expertise, we recommend: Deep Diving plus Multi-Level Diving (can be combined in one boat trip), Underwater Naturalist, and Night Diving. All of these dives will be giving you valuable experience under the supervision of your PADI Instructor. They are also fun! You log dives and develop capabilities as you find new ways to experience scuba diving.

In your home town, you can also check with your local dive shop for copies of the Adventures in Diving manual and the Adventures in Diving video (a book and DVD package).

Get credit! Each Adventure Dive may credit toward the first dive of the corresponding PADI Specialty Diver Course. If you’ve already taken a specialty diver course, ask your instructor if you’ve earned credit for an Adventure Dive.

After completing your five dives, you’ll be more experienced, feel more comfortable in the water, and simply enjoy diving more because you will better enjoy the underwater environment. You may also develop a serious interest in one of the specialty areas that you can follow up on by earning a Specialty card in the area(s) of interest.

Pricing and Reservations

PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course

3 shore dives & 2 boat dives

  • advance/online: $446 USD
  • regular/walk-in: $7780 MX Pesos

1 shore dive & 4 boat dives

  • advance/online: $621 USD
  • regular/walk-in: $10,820 MX Pesos

Adventure Diver upgrade to Advanced OWD:
2 boat dives

  • advance/online: $344 USD
  • regular/walk-in: $6000 MX Pesos

SSI Instruction Available

$USD prices above are available through our USA office if booking at least 72+hrs in advance. 

Our on-island shop accepts $USD at the conversion rate posted in the shop.

PADI e-Learning

To get a head start, consider enrolling in PADI’s Advanced Open Water Diver online e-learning course.  This online preparatory course is supplemental and does not replace your in-person Dive Paradise Instruction in Cozumel, though it can speed up your on-island classroom time and get you in the water faster!

Additional Fees

Marine Park Fee:
• The MX National Marine Park Authority charges a $109 MXN Pesos fee for each day of diving.  Must be paid in Cash.  Dive Paradise collects this fee on behalf of the Marine Park during your check-in upon arrival.   Rate subject to change per the National Marine Park Authority.

Materials:
• $1660 MX Pesos Adventures in Diving manual, RDP table, sausage and whistle.

Processing:
• $960 MX Pesos  PADI Certification processing – PIC 

Book Online
Schedule and Duration

Schedule
• Flexible. You will meet with your instructor to decide the specifics.

Duration
• 2 Days

Availability
• Daily with the possible exception of Christmas Day and New Years Day.

Meeting point

Check-in at any of our beach front dive shops and you will be connected with one of our instructors who will set up the specific details of your dives.

What's Included

Activity Inclusions:
• A shore dive for Underwater Navigation, with personalized attention of a PADI instructor.
• Tanks (80 cu ft)
Substitutions: 60 cu ft (complimentary) or 100 cu ft ($220 MXN Pesos upgrade) available upon request.

Additional Information

Minimum Age
• PADI (Junior) Open Water Divers who are at least 12 years old are ready to step up and enroll in an Advanced Open Water Diver course.
• Young divers may only participate in certain Adventures Dives – check with your PADI Instructor.

Additional Information
• Boat dive fees not included.
• Rental Gear fees not included.
• ** For this course, you are required to have one audible emergency surface signaling device (whistle, etc.). A dive sausage is also strongly recommended.
• If you’re already an Adventure Diver (a rating for someone who has completed Deep and Underwater Navigation dives plus one Adventure Dive), you only need to complete two more Adventure Dives to earn the Advanced Open Water Diver certification.
• Group discounts available on all instruction – inquire via email HERE.
• Prices include Mexican tax.

You will need to bring a completed Divers Medical questionnaire & Information Form signed by a physician (not related to you) which can be downloaded HERE. If you are unable to obtain this prior to arriving, we can refer you to a local physician who can do your medical evaluation and sign the form if there are no areas of concern.