Take Your Diving Further with Five Ocean Adventure Dives
The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course is designed to help certified divers gain experience, improve confidence, and expand their underwater skills through real-world diving.
This course is completed entirely in the ocean while exploring some of Key West’s most popular dive sites—including the world-famous USS Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg.
You’ll complete five Adventure Dives under the direct supervision of one of our experienced PADI Instructors while building the skills to become a safer, more confident diver.
Here’s what you can expect:
Course Overview:
The Five Adventure Dives
Your course includes:
- Underwater Navigation
- Peak Performance Buoyancy
- Deep Diver
- Wreck Diver
- Fish Identification
Underwater Navigation
Learn to navigate with confidence using a compass and natural underwater references.
Strong navigation skills reduce stress, improve dive planning, and make every dive safer and more enjoyable.
Perfect for: Divers who want to become more independent and confident underwater.
Peak Performance Buoyancy
Master one of the most important skills in scuba diving.
Excellent buoyancy improves air consumption, increases comfort underwater, protects fragile coral reefs, and helps you become a more confident and environmentally responsible diver.
Perfect for: Every diver, regardless of experience.
Deep Diver
Expand your limits safely.
Learn the planning, equipment considerations, and techniques required for dives beyond recreational depths while building confidence in deeper water.
Deep Diver training is conducted privately with one instructor to ensure personalized instruction and safety.
Wreck Diver
Discover the skills needed to safely explore artificial reefs and historic shipwrecks.
You’ll learn wreck navigation, safety procedures, and proper techniques while diving one of the most iconic wrecks in the world—the USS Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg—when conditions permit.
Wreck Diver training is conducted privately with one instructor to provide individualized instruction and maximize safety.
Fish Identification
Discover the fascinating underwater world and learn to identify the marine life you encounter on every dive. Develop your knowledge of fish families, species characteristics, and natural behaviors while learning how to observe and recognize marine life with greater confidence. Perfect for: Divers who want to enhance their underwater experience, improve their marine life knowledge, and make every dive more rewarding.
These dives are specifically selected because they provide practical skills you’ll use on future dives while showcasing the incredible variety of diving available in Key West.
Course Requirements
- PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification)
- Complete the required PADI eLearning before your first dive (purchased separately)
- Complete the required medical questionnaire
- Be comfortable diving in open water
Although PADI allows Junior Advanced Open Water certification beginning at age 12, Southpoint Divers generally recommends participants be at least 15 years old, as our course typically includes the USS Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, an advanced wreck dive.
Alternative dive arrangements may be available for Junior Advanced Open Water students. Please contact us before booking so we can discuss the best training option.
