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The Advanced Open Water Diver (AOWD) certification allows divers to dive deeper (up to 30 meters) than basic open water certification (up to 18 meters). It requires additional training, experience, and logged dives beyond basic open water certification. While requirements vary by agency, AOWD certification generally involves theory learning, practical training, additional dives including specialties like navigation or deep diving, and a minimum number of logged dives ranging from 5 to 24 dives depending on the agency.

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Advanced Open Water Diver - Wikipedia

The Advanced Open Water Diver (AOWD) certification allows divers to dive deeper (up to 30 meters) than basic open water certification (up to 18 meters). It requires additional training, experience, and logged dives beyond basic open water certification. While requirements vary by agency, AOWD certification generally involves theory learning, practical training, additional dives including specialties like navigation or deep diving, and a minimum number of logged dives ranging from 5 to 24 dives depending on the agency.

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Advanced Open Water Diver (AOWD) is a


recreational scuba diving certification level
provided by several diver training agencies.
Agencies offering this level of training under
this title include Professional Association of
Diving Instructors (PADI), and Scuba Schools
International (SSI). Other agencies offer similar
training under different titles. Advanced Open
Water Diver is one step up from entry level
certification as a beginner autonomous scuba
diver to the ISO24901-2 standard. A major
difference between Autonomous diver
equivalent Open Water Diver (OWD)
certification and AOWD is that the depth limit
is increased from 18 to 30 metres (60 to
100 ft).

Prerequisite certification level for AOWD


training is OWD or a recognized equivalent
(ISO 24801-2[1]). Certification requirements for
AOWD includes theory learning and
assessment, practical training and assessment,
and a minimum requirement for number of
logged dives, that varies between agencies.
SSI requires 24 logged dives.[2] PADI requires
5 dives on course, and the prerequisite is OWD
which requires 4 open water dives. No
additional logged dives are specified.[3][4]

Scuba diving education levels as used by ISO, PADI,


CMAS, SSI and NAUI

Equivalent certification

Purpose

Certification standards …

The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course


requires a single instance of an Underwater
navigation and a Deep diving activity as well as
a single instance of three of the remaining
topics from a list of approximately 18 possible
specialties.[8] Until 2006, night diving was also
mandatory, but this is no longer the case. It
was dropped at the request of the
Scandinavian countries, for whom there is
almost no night during the summer months
when most of the diving is done, as it created
an unreasonable restriction on certifying
advanced divers (which is a prerequisite for
further training). Most other countries still
recommend the night diver course.

According to PADI, the Advanced Open Water


Diver course is for divers who want to gain
more underwater experience while diving with
a PADI Professional, or have fun learning new
things. In addition to logging more dives, the
student can improve skills learned during their
open water diver course, such as navigation
and buoyancy.[9]

The SSI Advanced Open Water program


requires training and diving experience. To be
certified as a SSI AOWD one needs to have
completed four specialty courses and minimum
of 24 logged dives.[2] In the absence of a
logged dives requirement, it is possible to
become certified as AOW with some other
agencies while having less than 10 lifetime
dives.[3][4]

Issues

References

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