Advanced Course

Experience new adventures with the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course. As you step beyond the PADI Open Water Diver level, you make five dives and have the opportunity to try some of diving’s most rewarding and useful specialty activities, such as deep diving, digital underwater photography, night diving and much more. This license allows you to dive anywhere in the world to a maximum depth of 30 meters/100 feet without professional supervision.

With your PADI Instructor you complete the deep and underwater navigation Adventure Dives. These dives boost your confidence as you build these foundational skills. Then, you choose three additional dives from night diving, search and recovery, Fish ID, underwater nature study, multilevel and computer diving, peak performance buoyancy, underwater photography, enriched air amongst other adventures.

General course information:

    • Duration: 2-3 days
    • Must be a PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization) and 15 years old
    • Number of dives: Five dives
    • Includes: Adventures in Diving manual and work slate
    • All scuba equipment provided

Junior Advanced Open Water Diver Information:

 

  • Minimum age 12 years old – maximum depth is 70 feet
  • All elements of the Advanced Open Water course must be completed to certify
  • Under 18′s must have PADI release forms signed by a parent of guardian before starting training Want to spend more of your vacation diving?

     

Sign up & do your PADI Advanced Open Water theory online with eLearning!

With PADI eLearning do your bookwork before arriving in Costa Rica! You choose from 7 of the most popular Adventure Dives for course, the 2 required topics Deep and Underwater Navigation; then you can choose 3 dives from Peak Performance Buoyancy, Night, Wreck, Underwater Naturalist or Boat Diver. When you arrive in Costa Rica all you have left to do is is the diving! Contact us Today!


Let Oceans Unlimited introduce you to the world of Costa Rica Diving

The view from Above, An afternoon with the our boat captain…

January 13, 2012
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Jan, 12. working as skipper almost daily. This afternoon was amazing. 1st dive. Punto quepos. 35-65ft of water. 15 min. into dive. My self as capt. I was thinking of my divers and their safety!  as always, When I was startled by aloud noise. sounded like a scuba tank releasing  air. i jumped up, turned [...]

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“Whale of a time” Scuba diving in Manuel Antonio

January 9, 2012
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End to the first week of the new year and what a great week it has been! We have had beautiful waters, great diving and to finish it off this week we thought we would go deep diving. With some of our PADI divemaster trainees on the morning trip we decided to hit a couple [...]

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Crazy Christmas diving in Manuel Antonio – Costa Rica

December 30, 2011
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Wow, what a fun packed week. It truly was a fun Oceans Unlimited scuba diving christmas. With a great start, and lots of newly certified divers, we were definitely celebrating underwater. The water was showing us lots of fun stuff too with sightings of sharks, eagle rays, sting rays and even the ever elusive Guitar [...]

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New PADI Tec Rec Center

December 14, 2011
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Congratulations to Oceans Unlimited and Go Pro Costa Rica! We are officially the the only PADI Tec Rec Diving center in all of Costa Rica! We offer a wide range of technical dive courses, from basic nitrox , advanced Nitrox, Tec 40, 45 and 50 and Tec Rec Gas Blending certification. We even can certify [...]

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