Next series in my tips for new divers, and this one is about what to expect from your second level of diving, or in the case of PADI, the Advanced Open Water Course!! Let me know if you have any questions!

@scubadivingrickydamiano

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Katt I just wanted to say that I went to white star quarry back on July 27 and went diving even tho it was only on Sunday because my dive buddy got into a car wreck the day before so thats why I only dived on day but it was fun and my Mares quantum BCD worked great and no nose bleeds 😀.

@Motovlograndom

4 жыл бұрын

I want to level up from open water to advance

The saying OK to fish part made me cackle a lot lol

@OceanPancake

6 күн бұрын

One of my favourite moments from teaching

Saying OK to the fish! Cant stop laughing cos i did the same when i did my courses few years back and my instructor recorded it on camera! 👌 ?🐠 😂

@OceanPancake

4 жыл бұрын

Hahahah! I want to see that footage!

This was so useful in helping me feel more confident before doing my dive courses. your content is amazing!!

@OceanPancake

4 жыл бұрын

I am glad you have found my content helpful!! Let me know if theres anything I can do to help!

Thank you so much Katt! Really helped with the different options available! I was confused at first, but this definitely cleared a lot of those!

@OceanPancake

4 жыл бұрын

Oh I am glad!! :) Let me know if there is anything else you would like to know! Which of the dive courses did you end up taking?

I really appreciate your videos, you're giving a so nice and sympathetic insight in diving and other stuff. I did my open water diver already and will have the advanced this weekend and having your little overview gives a good feeling even after reading the book so thx a lot and please keep doing it :-)

@OceanPancake

4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you found this video helpful. I ve been getting these questions so much I thought id turn it into a series! Rescue course next ;) which dives are you doing?

Good information... Thank you. I just finished my open water diver... Look forward for advance open water

Great vid 😁I qualified as an open water diver just 2 days ago after diving with the ‘scuba diver’ qualification for 6 years!! I’m beginning Advanced in the next couple of days..! 👍

I just got my open water certification this summer (like a month ago) and my buddy is already trying to get me to start advanced open water. But the video was suuuper helpful at explaining the dives and what's important to take. Great video!!

@OceanPancake

4 жыл бұрын

You should definitely do your advanced open water course soon! It's a great course to teach you extra things and to get you comfortable in the water :) no prerequisites necessary

@byteme9718

8 ай бұрын

@@OceanPancake You just proved why PADI are the worst organisation to learn to dive with. A good instructor would have said "get thirty dives in first" but in true Put Another Dollar In style, you avoided that.

@OceanPancake

8 ай бұрын

@@byteme9718 I do think the advanced open water course follows nicely to the open water course as it allows people to have more dives with an instructor straight away. Not everyone is 100% confident to do 30 dives without a guide or instructor. So why not learn some more skills under supervision?

@byteme9718

8 ай бұрын

@@OceanPancake And that's the problem with PADI. Open water is supposed to turn out people who have the ability to plan and dive independently but it doesn't. Simply putting them on another Put Another Dollar In course doesn't changes that. I know of PADI dive schools who've qualified divers with zero knowledge in two days. I've witnessed one dead body found in 7m of water on his 3rd open water qualifying dive. There are some good PADI courses and instructors but realistically, to master all the knowledge and skills to the degree of confidence takes 4-6 weeks and condensing that into 2-4 days never works and by your own admission, your training is so poor you have to supplement it with another course immediately. Most PADI courses are shit and have shit instructors often working illegally in foreign countries so HAVE to not fail their income stream. You appear to fit within that category. I never suggested "Not everyone is 100% confident to do 30 dives without a guide or instructor.", you assumed that. Open water should be followed by a good number of experience dives and 30 is a reasonable number before progressing to advanced immediately. At that point you can be fully comfortable and really benefit from learning advanced skills. Instead, you advocate supplementing poor and ineffective training with even more of the same. This is exactly why PADI qualified divers are not trusted when they turn up at dive centres who don't know them and are therefore treated like babies when they go on dives. As mentioned, I've witnessed what Pay And Die Instantly does and they have no interest other than profit. FFS, they qualify people who can barely swim! In contrast organisations like BSAC are club based and therefore all involved are enthusiasts. Their whole purpose is to take you forward with ongoing support at negligible cost and when you qualify include you in club dives in the boats membership covers. Equipment is also sold/traded so set up cost are a fraction of those incurred by PADI divers who generally learn on holiday, forget the little they learned and yet somehow ten year later can present their dive card and be accepted? I have multiple qualifications through different agencies and admit I entered diving through PADI open water but it really is the worst, and least respected, of dive training organisations that allows novices to progress to instructors in almost no time and little experience. Just last year where I am a PADI instructor teaching "Advanced" ended in a major air/sea rescue and the lost body of his father participating with him.

Humans: im not ready for kids, i want to live and get rich first Octopus: Bro, you gotta see the bigger picture

In my advance open water, I did a deep dive, night dive, navigation dive, search and recovery dive, and peak performance bouyancy dive. It took my diving skills to the next level and I had a great instructor.

@OceanPancake

4 жыл бұрын

Oh that would have been fun. Where did you do it?? Glad you had a great experience.

@jesspeoples3292

4 жыл бұрын

@@OceanPancake Bluewater park in Alabama. I hope I can do my rescue course next year.

@OceanPancake

4 жыл бұрын

@@jesspeoples3292 I am sure you can!

I like your videos 😊 so keep them coming your one video helped me because of you I have no more nose bleeds on the way up think you Katt for the advice I really appreciate it.

@OceanPancake

4 жыл бұрын

Which video helped you?? I'm so happy to hear that :)

@scubadivingrickydamiano

4 жыл бұрын

@@OceanPancake the video was 5 common fears in scuba diving tips for New divers. That's the video that helped me.

@OceanPancake

4 жыл бұрын

@@scubadivingrickydamiano Oh I am so happy to hear that :)

Great vid, im doing to advanced open water in thailand this week

already liking before watching! Currently Doing my DIvemaster course But I like ur perspective on stuff :P

@OceanPancake

4 жыл бұрын

Yay thank you!!! I will be doing a video on divemasters and instructor soon!

@TheChilllin

4 жыл бұрын

@@OceanPancake Could u talk about ur experience as a young intructor/Divemaster cause im 19 and its going to be some what the same for me.. Tankss

@OceanPancake

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheChilllin have you checked out my other videos? About how I became a diving instructor,m

@TheChilllin

4 жыл бұрын

@@OceanPancake yess katt but I mean talk some more when you do the video u just told that its going to be next too

@TheChilllin

4 жыл бұрын

@@OceanPancake GNite z.Z.Z.

Thanks Katt!! Love from Sri Lanka!!

@OceanPancake

4 жыл бұрын

Hello! Thank youu

I saw that Tarantino shirt!!!! Love it!!!

@OceanPancake

4 жыл бұрын

Haha yes!!

Hey Katt. I just came back from marsa alam diving holiday 😄 saw an eagle ray, dolphins and a shark 😍 loved diving with my new mares bolt sls and prestige x15 reg. I’m gonna start my aowd this weekend here in Germany in a drysuit in 8 degree Celsius waters 🙈 hopefully I can make my rescue and divemaster early next year.

@OceanPancake

4 жыл бұрын

Oh that sounds so so amazing! Congratulations on starting your advanced course :) Sorry I didn't see this message earlier. How did it go?

@diveinstructordaniel1095

4 жыл бұрын

Vegan Diver Katt it went well I did the rescue course too and I am now ssi master diver. 😄 now im looking for a place to do my divemaster

Probably won’t go for advanced open water quite yet (recent open water cert), but my ultimate goal is wreck diving. I’m a bit of a history nerd (particularly maritime history) and I think it would be so awesome to visit the actual wreck sites rather than just seeing it on TV or something.

Yay!! I just can't wait to go for my advanced course!!! Peak bouancy is a must in my humble opinion too!! And I'd take wreck dive and fish identification over night dive :) .. I don't like the dark ... LOL

@OceanPancake

4 жыл бұрын

The night is quite scary, but does get your adrenalin rushing like crazy. I've loved all my night dives :) great choices. When are you doing your course?

@thegodpharaoh79

4 жыл бұрын

@@OceanPancake Hmmm, maybe I'll try a night dive then haha ... I think I'll do the course towards end of September when my work schedule clears up a bit (I run my own engineering firm, so it's difficult to take time off )

@OceanPancake

4 жыл бұрын

@@thegodpharaoh79 That's amazing! I am so excited for you!!! Nice job!

Can't wait to do mine

@OceanPancake

4 жыл бұрын

Have you done yours yet?

Im taking PADI advance open waterr next summer (Peak performance bouyancy) @ Subic Bay philippines. Nice video Katt

@OceanPancake

4 жыл бұрын

Oh that will be so much fun! Are you excited?

@Luinito

4 жыл бұрын

Vegan Diver Katt i can't wait! Im jelouse with divers with perfect bouyancy and trim 🙂

@OceanPancake

4 жыл бұрын

You can learn that! Get your instructor to spend some extra time with you and you will achieve it :)

@OceanPancake

4 жыл бұрын

Also, practise practise practise!

just got my junior advanced open water at 13 really happy

@OceanPancake

4 жыл бұрын

Congratulations!!

Looks like a great lifestyle to live!

Did my AOWD in Comoros last year! Got much more out of it than my Open Water. And going back to get my mum up there as well when pandemic lifts!

@OceanPancake

6 күн бұрын

I miss the Comoros!! Who taught you?

Welp I’m scared :C I’ve done my open water Course but this one is making me shiver on how deep you go:/

I would add nitrox as one of the more useful options if its available at the shop.(can't remember if it actually counts towards advanced )

Yesterday, I just finished an advanced course(theory), on November 28-29, 2020 I will go on a trip to do a deep dive, navigator, wreck and another 2 at Samaesan, Thailand.

@OceanPancake

3 жыл бұрын

That's so exciting! It's great you can travel :)

@audyisme9377

3 жыл бұрын

@@OceanPancake I can’t for now, I just lost my job, but I already passed an Open Water Scuba Diving, and heading to an Advanced course within this month. I’m looking forward to exploring the World, new experience, new job opportunities as well. 🤙🏼

Awesome! Thanks!!

@OceanPancake

4 жыл бұрын

Let me know if you have any more questions

@ajmenanga1107

4 жыл бұрын

What app would you recommend to log dives. I mean, I still use the book cos i like to write notes on the side and just cos I like the feeling of using paper etc but at times I feel like its not portable enough to be traveling around with

If you do advanced and choose nitrox as one of the specialtys can you dive with nitrox from then on our do you also have to take the seperate cources

In the advanced open water diver course, a single dive contribute to the speciality course? Suppose I choose the peak performance buoyancy speciality then a single dive is sufficient or I need to take separate course for it?

I completed the open water diver course but I struggled on a mask replacement do they do that skill in the advance open water diver course? Also is it recommended to do adventure course before advance?

Is there a test or quiz you have to take to get advanced open water certified?

Thank you

I actually only have to do the navigation dive to finish my advanced open water and to do the rescue diver,but thanks to this video i am definetly going to do more advanced dives than just those 5 required once.Thanks a lot for this really informative video!I really want to see more videos talking about those advanced dives and what you have to learn an do in those advanced dives(and this is the first time i have ever heard of a Zombie Dive 😂)

@albalupus4525

4 жыл бұрын

btw. I am 14 years old and not Padi but SSI certified.

@OceanPancake

4 жыл бұрын

I could probably do a whole separate video on all the specialties. Would that be something you'd want to see? Any that particularly interest you? And wow! Good job! Getting started early. I got my advanced when I was 16!

Hi Vegan Can u please advise whether the candidate should knw swimming to get certified in PADI course?

Are you certifed in the speciltys you during the advance cources

Hi Kat, Does AOW also require to (re)do some skills from the owd, like clearing the mask, undoing your bcd, etc?

@OceanPancake

3 жыл бұрын

Nope, but you definitely need to know how to do it!

@DansschoolDanceFit

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, I get that 👍🏻. Just went through it all, so I was curious. Thanks for getting back about this.

@DansschoolDanceFit

3 жыл бұрын

I registered!

The first time I did a dive I was 10 so I couldn’t do a giant stride properly so as I went off the back of the boat. My tank hit the boat and hit my head. My parents thought I was gonna have a concussion or somma lol

Isn't the AOW, apart from enabling you to dive to 30 mts just another way for PADI to make money (Put Another Dollar In)

Do you need to buy anything extra like a knife or a compass?

@OceanPancake

4 жыл бұрын

It's a good idea to have your own compass to be familiar with it during your navigation dives

Very nice video

@OceanPancake

4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you found it useful!

@DOHCG

4 жыл бұрын

Gas narcosis

Its funny. By Padi you need to pay for the aowd. By SSI you get the aowd After a minimun of dives without anything. You just need 2 specialtys + the dives.

😊

How do I get my hands on one of those t-shirts? :)

@OceanPancake

4 жыл бұрын

So sorry for the late reply!!! You can get one on www.oceanpancake.com/shop/ would really mean the world to me if you would support the cause!!

@OceanPancake

4 жыл бұрын

Over here : :) myveganexperiment.com/shop/

Nobody have narcs at 20m that's why the tables ask you to stop there when you're an open water diver. It's between 35m to 40m that the partial pressure of the N2 is high enough to generate it. BTW Champagne is more then done for his JAckass I.O.U.

@OceanPancake

4 жыл бұрын

The Open Water Diver is certified to 18 meters, but I have mostly certainly seen divers narked at around 22-25 meters. It effects every body differently, so I don't think your comment is a fair generalisation. I am also unsure about what your comment about champagne means? Thanks for checking out the video

@simonvaillancourt4626

4 жыл бұрын

@@OceanPancake I know it's 18m/60ft, I've made a round number. Most of the students goes to 20m by the time they've figured out their buoyancy.

@simonvaillancourt4626

4 жыл бұрын

For the OW course, hangovers are a much bigger safety hazards then narcs or flurtacious middle aged men combined anyways.

@simonvaillancourt4626

4 жыл бұрын

I Might had that the middle aged guy who managed to stay in good shap might be the best instructor for the fling specialty. I don't think he can do any worst then a twenty years old shit faced backpacker anyways. The skills come with the number of dive that you've staked up. So does the bloopers that you've done by acquiring those skills. For more details you can ask for my lap danse review in Montreal downtown.

@OceanPancake

4 жыл бұрын

@@simonvaillancourt4626 I don't consider nitrogen narcosis to be a safety hazard, being hungover on the other hand most certainly is. Really important that people realise how bad being dehydrated can be :)

😲😲😲😀😀😀👍

Best to avoid PADI if possible.

So glad my instructor was old dude because if I would have had one as cute as she is then I would have been completely distracted!

I’ve never been narked at 40m :(

@bigdestroyer5895

3 жыл бұрын

I thought the same until near miss at 38m. Now I believe, I *am* narc'd past 30m, but unaware. I definitely feel impaired past 45m.

@diveinstructordaniel1095

3 жыл бұрын

@@bigdestroyer5895 i still don’t play it easy, let’s just say I have some experience with functioning while intoxicated in my youth 🥴 I hope I never get Narcd.

@bigdestroyer5895

3 жыл бұрын

@@diveinstructordaniel1095 Haha😅 I hope too. Dive safe. I don't use air/eanx deeper than 30-35m in non-optimum environmental conditions anymore. Low viz, dark, currents, overhead -- well, I want to have a bit of helium in my gas. It makes a significant difference to me... but sometimes breaks the bank though.

@diveinstructordaniel1095

3 жыл бұрын

@@bigdestroyer5895 at the Moment im not trained it trimix but it’s coming very soon.

@diveinstructordaniel1095

3 жыл бұрын

@@bigdestroyer5895 thank you dive save too

How do you know someone is a vegan... they will tell you.

lol vegan diver hey- talk about virtue signaling much; what do the two have anything to do with each other?

Vegan? Thumbs down, stop video