Open Water Diver Course Final Exam Answer Sheet

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Intheory, an expert diver should be writing this post. Logically, he or she could tell you what to expect, give you insider tips and prepare you for the challenge ahead. That said, I have one distinct advantage over the experts: I know exactly how hard it is for nervous first-timers.

You will find the practical side of diving much easier if you read through the theory first. Your dive centre will supply you with a book comprising five different chapters. If you can confidently answer the tests within the chapters and the knowledge reviews at the end of each, you will likely pass the exam without difficulty.

Depending on your learning style, it is possible to blitz through chapters 1-3 on one night and 4-5 on the second. Naturally, if you have more time to play with, then feel free to split up the studying even further. You can also choose the eLearning option. This may be provided by your dive centre as standard, or you can choose to self-learn before beginning the practical course.

You must complete four open water dives in order to pass the course. Dive 1 will orientate you, get you comfortable with the scuba gear and test a few of the above skills. Dives 2 and 3 will rigorously test the above skills while Dive 4 is usually a more relaxed affair allowing you to use and enjoy your newly developed skills.

When I was four years old, I told my mom I was running away from home. I filled a little red wagon with my prized possessions (mostly stuffed animals) and set out for the unknown: our driveway. My mom stood at the front door and watched me tow my wagon to the end of our carport. I took one look at the pouring rain, turned around, and came back inside.

Twenty years later, I found myself dragging a wagon piled with dive gear along the picturesque waterfront of Avalon, California. As I gazed toward our destination, the famous Casino Point dive site, my guts churned with the same mix of excitement and fear I had when I stepped off the front stoop.

The next morning, we hauled our scuba gear to the dive site, ready for adventure. Unfortunately, I made the mistake of putting my wetsuit on first. In a matter of moments, I was sweating like crazy under 7mm of neoprene.

Neither of us had been in a kelp forest before, but getting tangled in kelp was the furthest thing from my mind. Why? Because all I could think about were the equalization problems I had during my open water training dives. It took ages for me to descend below 10 metres/30 feet.

Like many divers, I incorrectly assumed Advanced Open Water is only for divers who have reached an advanced skill level. Luckily, someone explained what Advanced Open Water is actually about: working with an instructor to gain dive experience. There are no quizzes or exams and you spend the majority of the class in the water.

The Advanced Open Water Diver course is all about advancing your skills. You'll practice navigation and buoyancy, try deep diving and make three specialty dives of your choosing (it's like a specialty sampler platter). For every specialty dive you complete, you can earn credit toward PADI specialty certifications.

Here are a few of the many options: Deep, Digital Underwater Photography, Dive Against Debris, Dry Suit, Fish Identification, Night, Peak Performance Buoyancy, Search & Recovery, Underwater Naturalist, Underwater Navigation, and Wreck Diver.

Advanced open water diver elearning includes interactive lessons on 13 popular specialty dives: altitude, boat, digital underwater imaging, drift, dry suit, fish id, night, buoyancy, search and recovery, underwater naturalist and wreck diving.

So, you are thinking about advancing your skills as a scuba diver and have heard that the Advanced Open Water course is your next step. In the Advanced Open Water course, you will become a more confident, competent diver by perfecting your buoyancy skills and increasing your knowledge. It also introduces you to some exciting specialty courses that you can choose to take later on. It is also a lot of fun!

The PADI Advanced Open Water course consists of five dives, which are typically completed over two to three days. Two dives (deep and navigation) are required. The other three dives are up to you and your instructor to decide. These can be done consecutively or spread out at different times and/or locations. The Advanced Open Water course is a fun and informative course. There is much less theory than the PADI Open Water course. There are no videos or exams, just short knowledge development chapters to read and some questions to answer. These will be reviewed and discussed with your instructor before each dive. You will focus a lot on practical skills throughout this course.

There are several reasons you may have to do the PADI Advanced Open Water Course. Dive more, learn more, dive deeper, or diving at night are just a few. The Advanced Open Water course will allow you to dive down to 30 meters. It gives you the opportunity to do five more dives with an instructor. Your instructor will be able to give you different tips, pointers, and advice on how to improve your dive skills, trim or air consumption, and provide you with general knowledge about the underwater environment. It will increase your confidence, as you will have a better understanding of how things work.

I was still a bit nervous under the water after I finished my Open Water. Doing the Advanced course immediately following allowed my confidence to grow immensely. So much so that I decided straight after that I would go all the way through to do my Divemaster and eventually my Instructor training.

To begin the PADI Advanced Open Water course, you must already have your Open Water certification. You can do the PADI Advanced Open Water course immediately following the PADI Open Water course or you can start later.

I did my Advanced immediately following my Open Water and do not regret it. It gave me the chance to dive nine times in a row with an instructor. After each dive when we returned to the dive center, we would talk about the dive; what I did well, what I needed to practice.

The order in which you do the five adventure dives is very dependent on the dive center you choose, their dive schedule and the conditions for each dive site. Remember, you have two required dives and three elective dives. I will break them all down here.

Here is an extensive list of PADI Specialties. Availability is dependent on the dive center and area you choose. So, if you are particularly interested in one of these specialties, make sure you research where you may be able to do that dive. The dives you do in the Advanced Open Water course can count as your first dive of that specialty if you choose to expand your knowledge base and skills even further.

Deep, Peak Performance Buoyancy, Boat Diver, Coral Reef Conservation, Digital Underwater Photography, Drift Diver, Ice Diver, Night Diver, Altitude Diver, Cavern Diver, Dry suit diver, Enriched Air Diver, Project AWARE Fish ID, Project AWARE Specialist, Project AWARE Shark Conservation, Search and Recovery, Underwater Naturalist, Wreck Diver, Adaptive Support Diver, Advanced Rebreather Diver, Adaptive Techniques, Emergency Oxygen Provider, Equipment Specialist, Multilevel Diver, Sidemount Diver, Dive Against Debris

The dives recommended for your PADI Advanced Open Water course depends on the area you are diving in. For example, you would not do a wreck dive if there were no wrecks in the area. Some dive centers have the three optional dives already planned out for you, as they may only be able to offer those three. Other places may be more flexible.

In the Gilis, we have two wrecks that can be seen as a recreational diver. There is the Glen Nusa II wreck at Shark Point which lies at about 30 meters deep, and there is Bounty wreck off the shore of Gili Meno that sits between 10-18 meters.

This dive will expand your knowledge of the basic physics and physiology of diving. You will learn how to analyze a Nitrox tank, set your computer, and dive on enriched air. One of the main benefits of Nitrox diving is that it extends your no stop time, or how long you can safely stay at depth. This is especially beneficial if you are doing repetitive dives or the points of interest on a particular dive site sit deeper than 18 meters. This is also another popular full specialty introduction.

At Trawangan Dive, we offer all of these most common electives. Remember, talk to your instructor about which dives they recommend, tell them which dives you are interested in, and you can work together to come up with the best plan for you!

Whatever dives you end up doing for your PADI Advanced Open Water course, you should come out the other side feeling like you have learned a lot and are better prepared for real world diving situations. You will hopefully have had a lot of fun, too!

Trawangan Dive is a PADI 5 Star Instructor Development Dive Resort, Tech Diving Centre and Coral Reef Restoration Centre situated on Gili Trawangan in Indonesia. We offer all levels of PADI scuba diving courses from beginner to instructor.

Now that the main hurdle was out of the way, I enrolled for the PADI Open Water Diver course with a dive shop in Goa. I was excited to see fishes, sea turtles, sea urchins, sharks, octopuses, and all the other water babies we associate with underwater life.

After four grueling days of theory sessions, confined water dives in the pool, open water dives in the sea, and very supportive peers, I miraculously cleared all the skill tests and theory exams (even scored the highest in them!). However, my Instructor refused to submit my papers for certification.

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