What to Expect from the PADI Advanced Open Water Course

[@OceanPancake]

Next series in my tips for new divers, and this one is about what to expect from your second level of diving, or in the case of PADI, the Advanced Open Water Course!! Let me know if you have any questions!

[@scubadivingrickydamiano]

Hi Katt I just wanted to say that I went to white star quarry back on July 27 and went diving even tho it was only on Sunday because my dive buddy got into a car wreck the day before so thats why I only dived on day but it was fun and my Mares quantum BCD worked great and no nose bleeds 😀.

[@Motovlograndom]

I want to level up from open water to advance

[@vaiterius]

The saying OK to fish part made me cackle a lot lol

[@OceanPancake]

One of my favourite moments from teaching

[@jesspeoples3292]

In my advance open water, I did a deep dive, night dive, navigation dive, search and recovery dive, and peak performance bouyancy dive. It took my diving skills to the next level and I had a great instructor.

[@OceanPancake]

Oh that would have been fun. Where did you do it?? Glad you had a great experience.

[@jesspeoples3292]

@@OceanPancake Bluewater park in Alabama. I hope I can do my rescue course next year.

[@OceanPancake]

@@jesspeoples3292 I am sure you can!

[@gracemarie1308]

I just got my open water certification this summer (like a month ago) and my buddy is already trying to get me to start advanced open water. But the video was suuuper helpful at explaining the dives and what's important to take. Great video!!

[@OceanPancake]

You should definitely do your advanced open water course soon! It's a great course to teach you extra things and to get you comfortable in the water :) no prerequisites necessary

[@byteme9718]

@@OceanPancake You just proved why PADI are the worst organisation to learn to dive with. A good instructor would have said "get thirty dives in first" but in true Put Another Dollar In style, you avoided that.

[@OceanPancake]

@@byteme9718 I do think the advanced open water course follows nicely to the open water course as it allows people to have more dives with an instructor straight away. Not everyone is 100% confident to do 30 dives without a guide or instructor. So why not learn some more skills under supervision?

[@byteme9718]

@@OceanPancake And that's the problem with PADI. Open water is supposed to turn out people who have the ability to plan and dive independently but it doesn't. Simply putting them on another Put Another Dollar In course doesn't changes that. I know of PADI dive schools who've qualified divers with zero knowledge in two days. I've witnessed one dead body found in 7m of water on his 3rd open water qualifying dive. There are some good PADI courses and instructors but realistically, to master all the knowledge and skills to the degree of confidence takes 4-6 weeks and condensing that into 2-4 days never works and by your own admission, your training is so poor you have to supplement it with another course immediately. Most PADI courses are shit and have shit instructors often working illegally in foreign countries so HAVE to not fail their income stream. You appear to fit within that category. I never suggested "Not everyone is 100% confident to do 30 dives without a guide or instructor.", you assumed that. Open water should be followed by a good number of experience dives and 30 is a reasonable number before progressing to advanced immediately. At that point you can be fully comfortable and really benefit from learning advanced skills. Instead, you advocate supplementing poor and ineffective training with even more of the same. This is exactly why PADI qualified divers are not trusted when they turn up at dive centres who don't know them and are therefore treated like babies when they go on dives. As mentioned, I've witnessed what Pay And Die Instantly does and they have no interest other than profit. FFS, they qualify people who can barely swim! In contrast organisations like BSAC are club based and therefore all involved are enthusiasts. Their whole purpose is to take you forward with ongoing support at negligible cost and when you qualify include you in club dives in the boats membership covers. Equipment is also sold/traded so set up cost are a fraction of those incurred by PADI divers who generally learn on holiday, forget the little they learned and yet somehow ten year later can present their dive card and be accepted? I have multiple qualifications through different agencies and admit I entered diving through PADI open water but it really is the worst, and least respected, of dive training organisations that allows novices to progress to instructors in almost no time and little experience. Just last year where I am a PADI instructor teaching "Advanced" ended in a major air/sea rescue and the lost body of his father participating with him.

[@johntobin863]

This was so useful in helping me feel more confident before doing my dive courses. your content is amazing!!

[@OceanPancake]

I am glad you have found my content helpful!! Let me know if theres anything I can do to help!

[@ilciavo]

I think the hardest and most useful skills to master are buoyancy and navigation. Learn how your gear, weights, and body affect your buoyancy throughout a dive. For navigation, I recently learned that the kind of compass you have does make a big difference and magnetic interference can affect your navigation too.

[@OceanPancake]

I definitely agree with you! I had a northern hemisphere compass, and down in Australia it always worked a little bit funny. Did not even know that was a thing!

[@CrispyJacketStudios]

Great vid 😁I qualified as an open water diver just 2 days ago after diving with the ‘scuba diver’ qualification for 6 years!! I’m beginning Advanced in the next couple of days..! 👍

[@ajmenanga1107]

Saying OK to the fish! Cant stop laughing cos i did the same when i did my courses few years back and my instructor recorded it on camera! 👌 ?🐠 😂

[@OceanPancake]

Hahahah! I want to see that footage!

[@Luinito]

Im taking PADI advance open waterr next summer (Peak performance bouyancy) @ Subic Bay philippines. Nice video Katt

[@OceanPancake]

Oh that will be so much fun! Are you excited?

[@Luinito]

Vegan Diver Katt i can't wait! Im jelouse with divers with perfect bouyancy and trim 🙂

[@OceanPancake]

You can learn that! Get your instructor to spend some extra time with you and you will achieve it :)

[@OceanPancake]

Also, practise practise practise!

[@ajbhuiyan4589]

I'd love to be taken to new depths for my scuba diving journey. Currently I'm working on my open water diver certification

[@kavigasper8759]

I saw that Tarantino shirt!!!! Love it!!!

[@OceanPancake]

Haha yes!!

[@Evp3]

just got my junior advanced open water at 13 really happy

[@OceanPancake]

Congratulations!!

[@frog382]

Humans: im not ready for kids, i want to live and get rich first Octopus: Bro, you gotta see the bigger picture

[@homeworkpictureshq]

Good information... Thank you. I just finished my open water diver... Look forward for advance open water

[@veganfitmumma2364]

Can't wait to do mine

[@OceanPancake]

Have you done yours yet?

[@audyisme9377]

Yesterday, I just finished an advanced course(theory), on November 28-29, 2020 I will go on a trip to do a deep dive, navigator, wreck and another 2 at Samaesan, Thailand.

[@OceanPancake]

That's so exciting! It's great you can travel :)

[@audyisme9377]

@@OceanPancake I can’t for now, I just lost my job, but I already passed an Open Water Scuba Diving, and heading to an Advanced course within this month. I’m looking forward to exploring the World, new experience, new job opportunities as well. 🤙🏼

[@minukaasel]

Thanks Katt!! Love from Sri Lanka!!

[@OceanPancake]

Hello! Thank youu

[@diveinstructordaniel1095]

Hey Katt. I just came back from marsa alam diving holiday 😄 saw an eagle ray, dolphins and a shark 😍 loved diving with my new mares bolt sls and prestige x15 reg. I’m gonna start my aowd this weekend here in Germany in a drysuit in 8 degree Celsius waters 🙈 hopefully I can make my rescue and divemaster early next year.

[@OceanPancake]

Oh that sounds so so amazing! Congratulations on starting your advanced course :) Sorry I didn't see this message earlier. How did it go?

[@diveinstructordaniel1095]

Vegan Diver Katt it went well I did the rescue course too and I am now ssi master diver. 😄 now im looking for a place to do my divemaster

[@thegodpharaoh79]

Yay!! I just can't wait to go for my advanced course!!! Peak bouancy is a must in my humble opinion too!! And I'd take wreck dive and fish identification over night dive :) .. I don't like the dark ... LOL

[@OceanPancake]

The night is quite scary, but does get your adrenalin rushing like crazy. I've loved all my night dives :) great choices. When are you doing your course?

[@thegodpharaoh79]

@@OceanPancake Hmmm, maybe I'll try a night dive then haha ... I think I'll do the course towards end of September when my work schedule clears up a bit (I run my own engineering firm, so it's difficult to take time off )

[@OceanPancake]

@@thegodpharaoh79 That's amazing! I am so excited for you!!! Nice job!

[@undisclosedperson3871]

Did my AOWD in Comoros last year! Got much more out of it than my Open Water. And going back to get my mum up there as well when pandemic lifts!

[@OceanPancake]

I miss the Comoros!! Who taught you?

[@keeponwishin]

Probably won’t go for advanced open water quite yet (recent open water cert), but my ultimate goal is wreck diving. I’m a bit of a history nerd (particularly maritime history) and I think it would be so awesome to visit the actual wreck sites rather than just seeing it on TV or something.

[@williamkelly5689]

Great vid, im doing to advanced open water in thailand this week

[@Mr.Txerra]

Very helpful, thanks 🤿

[@TheChilllin]

already liking before watching! Currently Doing my DIvemaster course But I like ur perspective on stuff :P

[@OceanPancake]

Yay thank you!!! I will be doing a video on divemasters and instructor soon!

[@TheChilllin]

@@OceanPancake Could u talk about ur experience as a young intructor/Divemaster cause im 19 and its going to be some what the same for me.. Tankss

[@OceanPancake]

@@TheChilllin have you checked out my other videos? About how I became a diving instructor,m

[@TheChilllin]

@@OceanPancake yess katt but I mean talk some more when you do the video u just told that its going to be next too

[@TheChilllin]

@@OceanPancake GNite z.Z.Z.

[@viorelgheorghe9772]

I finished my open water certification 2 weeks ago with an SDI instructor, I have 16 hours underwater and 17 dives made in in the Mediterranean sea and 3 lakes, one night dive, I remove and clear my mask, do buoyancy exercises, out of gas, gas shearing use the campus to navigate and realise SMB every time I dive. Me and my budy write in our dive log every dive with the equipment used, dive plan, briefing, debriefing, we calculate the maximum time and depth and residual nitrogen for repetitive dives with a dive table and note it in the dive log. I will start wearing a dry suit in two months because I live in Eastern Europe. I have asked my instructor wen can I start the advance course and he tells me is going to be in 12 months if I do a minimum of 10 dives a month!

[@bhushanavs9543]

Thank you so much Katt! Really helped with the different options available! I was confused at first, but this definitely cleared a lot of those!

[@OceanPancake]

Oh I am glad!! :) Let me know if there is anything else you would like to know! Which of the dive courses did you end up taking?

[@codyleventhal8350]

Looks like a great lifestyle to live!

[@DansschoolFeatherstep]

Hi Kat, Does AOW also require to (re)do some skills from the owd, like clearing the mask, undoing your bcd, etc?

[@OceanPancake]

Nope, but you definitely need to know how to do it!

[@DansschoolFeatherstep]

Yes, I get that 👍🏻. Just went through it all, so I was curious. Thanks for getting back about this.

[@DansschoolFeatherstep]

I registered!

[@kirkbland1371]

Thank you

[@scubadivingrickydamiano]

I like your videos 😊 so keep them coming your one video helped me because of you I have no more nose bleeds on the way up think you Katt for the advice I really appreciate it.

[@OceanPancake]

Which video helped you?? I'm so happy to hear that :)

[@scubadivingrickydamiano]

@@OceanPancake the video was 5 common fears in scuba diving tips for New divers. That's the video that helped me.

[@OceanPancake]

@@scubadivingrickydamiano Oh I am so happy to hear that :)

[@JohnDoe-le3yd]

The first time I did a dive I was 10 so I couldn’t do a giant stride properly so as I went off the back of the boat. My tank hit the boat and hit my head. My parents thought I was gonna have a concussion or somma lol

[@widdlewaddle1790]

Welp I’m scared :C I’ve done my open water Course but this one is making me shiver on how deep you go:/

[@ajmenanga1107]

Awesome! Thanks!!

[@OceanPancake]

Let me know if you have any more questions

[@ajmenanga1107]

What app would you recommend to log dives. I mean, I still use the book cos i like to write notes on the side and just cos I like the feeling of using paper etc but at times I feel like its not portable enough to be traveling around with

[@SashaVoitoff]

What do I need for scuba diving for warm water diving

[@Mohammed-ju4qj]

Do you need to buy anything extra like a knife or a compass?

[@OceanPancake]

It's a good idea to have your own compass to be familiar with it during your navigation dives

[@marcelscherzer8385]

I would add nitrox as one of the more useful options if its available at the shop.(can't remember if it actually counts towards advanced )

[@keithpmr5839]

Is there a test or quiz you have to take to get advanced open water certified?

[@cookingwithrila]

Very nice video

[@OceanPancake]

I'm glad you found it useful!

[@DOHCG]

Gas narcosis

[@kartracer127]

Its funny. By Padi you need to pay for the aowd. By SSI you get the aowd After a minimun of dives without anything. You just need 2 specialtys + the dives.

[@swapnilmahajan5547]

In the advanced open water diver course, a single dive contribute to the speciality course? Suppose I choose the peak performance buoyancy speciality then a single dive is sufficient or I need to take separate course for it?

[@beauvandervelden6910]

If you do advanced and choose nitrox as one of the specialtys can you dive with nitrox from then on our do you also have to take the seperate cources

[@simonvaillancourt4626]

Nobody have narcs at 20m that's why the tables ask you to stop there when you're an open water diver. It's between 35m to 40m that the partial pressure of the N2 is high enough to generate it. BTW Champagne is more then done for his JAckass I.O.U.

[@OceanPancake]

The Open Water Diver is certified to 18 meters, but I have mostly certainly seen divers narked at around 22-25 meters. It effects every body differently, so I don't think your comment is a fair generalisation. I am also unsure about what your comment about champagne means? Thanks for checking out the video

[@simonvaillancourt4626]

@@OceanPancake I know it's 18m/60ft, I've made a round number. Most of the students goes to 20m by the time they've figured out their buoyancy.

[@simonvaillancourt4626]

For the OW course, hangovers are a much bigger safety hazards then narcs or flurtacious middle aged men combined anyways.

[@simonvaillancourt4626]

I Might had that the middle aged guy who managed to stay in good shap might be the best instructor for the fling specialty. I don't think he can do any worst then a twenty years old shit faced backpacker anyways. The skills come with the number of dive that you've staked up. So does the bloopers that you've done by acquiring those skills. For more details you can ask for my lap danse review in Montreal downtown.

[@OceanPancake]

@@simonvaillancourt4626 I don't consider nitrogen narcosis to be a safety hazard, being hungover on the other hand most certainly is. Really important that people realise how bad being dehydrated can be :)

[@robharris5245]

Isn't the AOW, apart from enabling you to dive to 30 mts just another way for PADI to make money (Put Another Dollar In)

[@nitroxo2821]

How do I get my hands on one of those t-shirts? :)

[@OceanPancake]

So sorry for the late reply!!! You can get one on www.oceanpancake.com/shop/ would really mean the world to me if you would support the cause!!

[@OceanPancake]

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[@widdlewaddle1790]

I completed the open water diver course but I struggled on a mask replacement do they do that skill in the advance open water diver course? Also is it recommended to do adventure course before advance?

[@beauvandervelden6910]

Are you certifed in the speciltys you during the advance cources

[@Julian-zq5nw]

😊

[@albalupus4525]

I actually only have to do the navigation dive to finish my advanced open water and to do the rescue diver,but thanks to this video i am definetly going to do more advanced dives than just those 5 required once.Thanks a lot for this really informative video!I really want to see more videos talking about those advanced dives and what you have to learn an do in those advanced dives(and this is the first time i have ever heard of a Zombie Dive 😂)

[@albalupus4525]

btw. I am 14 years old and not Padi but SSI certified.

[@OceanPancake]

I could probably do a whole separate video on all the specialties. Would that be something you'd want to see? Any that particularly interest you? And wow! Good job! Getting started early. I got my advanced when I was 16!

[@calugojr77]

So glad my instructor was old dude because if I would have had one as cute as she is then I would have been completely distracted!

[@arunthomas8953]

Hi Vegan Can u please advise whether the candidate should knw swimming to get certified in PADI course?

[@teknikkemal07]

😲😲😲😀😀😀👍

[@diveinstructordaniel1095]

I’ve never been narked at 40m :(

[@bigdestroyer5895]

I thought the same until near miss at 38m. Now I believe, I *am* narc'd past 30m, but unaware. I definitely feel impaired past 45m.

[@diveinstructordaniel1095]

@@bigdestroyer5895 i still don’t play it easy, let’s just say I have some experience with functioning while intoxicated in my youth 🥴 I hope I never get Narcd.

[@bigdestroyer5895]

@@diveinstructordaniel1095 Haha😅 I hope too. Dive safe. I don't use air/eanx deeper than 30-35m in non-optimum environmental conditions anymore. Low viz, dark, currents, overhead -- well, I want to have a bit of helium in my gas. It makes a significant difference to me... but sometimes breaks the bank though.

[@diveinstructordaniel1095]

@@bigdestroyer5895 at the Moment im not trained it trimix but it’s coming very soon.

[@diveinstructordaniel1095]

@@bigdestroyer5895 thank you dive save too

[@sardonicspartan9343]

How do you know someone is a vegan... they will tell you.

[@byteme9718]

Best to avoid PADI if possible.

[@M1M1R_x]

Vegan Diver xDDDDD LOL

[@OceanPancake]

Part time diving instructing makes sense.

[@Tylerdanczak]

lol vegan diver hey- talk about virtue signaling much; what do the two have anything to do with each other?

[@guymontag9577]

Vegan? Thumbs down, stop video