What is a PADI Adventure Dive?
A PADI Adventure Dive is designed to teach a student the skills and knowledge that increases the divers ability to plan, perform or participate in dives that are beyond regular Open Water Diver skills.
How Can you participate in an PADI Adventure Dive?
There are a few ways that a student can complete an PADI Adventure Dive.
- A stand-alone PADI Adventure Dive
- The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course
- A PADI Specialty course
What is a stand-alone PADI Adventure Dive?
Lets say you would like to do a night dive but you have never done one before. A diver can still participate in a single PADI Adventure Dive which is accredited towards their PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course or speciality. So any fun-dive can be a PADI Adventure Dive as long as the training requirements are met.
What is the difference between the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course and a PADI Specialty?
The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course includes 5 Adventure Dives in 5 different categories. Each Adventure dive is accredited towards that PADI Specialty. A PADI Specialty can include 2, 3 4 or more dives in only one category (ie: PADI Deep Diver Specialty)