Advanced Open Water Depth The Advanced Open Water Diver course includes one deep dive. How deep? The answer depends on your age, local regulations and dive site depths.

The maximum depth for divers 15 or older is 30 metres/100 feet
For divers 12-15 years old, the maximum depth is 21 metres/70 feet

The depths listed above are the maximum depth, your dive may be shallower. A deep dive is considered anything below 18 metres/60 feet. Put another way, a dive to just 19 metres/62 feet qualifies as a deep dive.

The PADI Advanced Open Water course is like a specialty sampler platter. Review the list below and contact your dive shop or instructor to confirm what they offer.

As an added bonus, each specialty dive may be credited toward the related specialty certification. For example, if you try a drysuit dive during your Advanced Open Water Diver course and like it, you'll already have one of the two dives required for the PADI Dry Suit Diver certification.

These specialty dives are available almost anywhere:

Deep
Fish Identification
Night
Peak Performance Buoyancy
Digital Underwater Imaging
Search & Recovery
Underwater Naturalist
Underwater Navigation

The specialty dives below may not be available in all locations. If you see something that interests you, contact your instructor or dive shop to confirm availability.

Adaptive Support
Altitude
Boat
Cavern
Delayed Surface Marker Buoy (DSMB)
Dive Against Debris
Diver Propulsion Vehicle (DPV)
Drift
Dry Suit
Enriched Air
Full Face Mask
Ice
Rebreather
Self-Reliant diving
Shark Conservation
Sidemount
Wreck