PADI Advanced Open Water Diver · Recreational certification · 2 days
Extends your training to thirty metres and introduces five different specialty diving experiences in two days — deep, navigation and three of your choice. The course that turns you from a new diver into a properly versatile one.
What you'll do
Five guided adventure dives over two days
Each of the five dives introduces a different specialty discipline. Two are mandatory — Deep Diver and Underwater Navigation — and you pick the remaining three from a wide list of options. There's no separate confined-water training; the skills are taught and assessed on the actual dives. Theory is delivered through PADI eLearning before or during the course.
Choose your adventure dives
Available on Roatan
Deep Diver
A single deep dive to around 30 m on the West End wall. Introduces no-stop limit awareness and gas planning at depth.
Underwater Navigation
Compass work and natural-navigation practice on sand patches and reef.
Wreck Diver
Exterior survey of a sunken freighter — optional swim-through with a properly briefed entry plan.
Night Diver
Dusk descent on a shallow reef; octopus, lobsters and parrotfish tucked into their reef pockets.
Peak Performance Buoyancy
Fine-tunes trim, weighting and breathing — the single dive most divers say transformed their diving.
Drift Diver
The gentler current sites on the north shore of the island.
Fish Identification
Caribbean reef-fish families, basic ID skills, and survey methodology on a normal reef dive.
Search & Recovery
Search patterns, lift bags and small-object recovery — technical-foundation skills.
Five Adventure Dives
Each Adventure Dive previews a complete PADI specialty
Deep and Underwater Navigation are mandatory; three more from your pick of the catalogue.
What's included
$400 all-inclusive
- Tuition with a qualified PADI Instructor
- PADI eLearning access — Adventures in Diving materials
- PADI Advanced Open Water Diver certification fee
- All scuba equipment rental for the duration of the course
- All boat dives, tanks and weights
The Roatan Marine Park fee is payable separately to the Marine Park on arrival.
Why Roatan is good for AOW
A reef built for variety
The wall structure means a thirty-metre Deep Adventure Dive is a normal recreational dive site, not a logistic exercise — you'll be on a vertical reef the whole way down. Calm conditions in the marine-park zone make Peak Performance Buoyancy and Underwater Navigation worth doing properly, and night dives off West End are some of the busiest on the island for sleeping fish and active invertebrates.
Beyond 18 metres
Wrecks, walls, and the world below recreational
Advanced Open Water extends your depth limit to 30 metres.
Requirements
Who can take this course
- PADI (or recognised equivalent) Open Water Diver certification
- Minimum age 15, or 12 for Junior Advanced Open Water with reduced depth limits
- PADI medical statement signed
Ready to take it further?
Get in touch with your preferred adventure-dive choices and we'll sequence them around the boat schedule.
