UFOrb
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I'm no PADI Pro, but it is my understanding that AOW only certifies you to 100' and that you need the full Deep specialty to be certified to 130'.
If AOW certifies you to 130', then what is the point of the full Deep specialty?
Hi @stuartv its my understanding that the Deep speciality course, along with navigation, is a pre-requisite for AOW. Then you pick 3 other speciality courses. It may have changed recently, or I misunderstood.
My wife & I did deep and wreck adventure dives straight after our OW cert in Malaysia. Then 9 months later in Dahab, Egypt we completed navigation, drift & night dive specialities to gain our AOW certs. You can do this as long as you don't leave more than 12 months from the original adventure dives.
*The Bells/Blue Hole was a very loose definition of a drift dive though!
Cheers, Rob
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