When I was a kid, 40 seemed old. I did not learn to scuba dive until I was 38. Seventeen years later, I am spending my 55th birthday in Fiji with ten days of diving ahead of me. If you have always wanted to learn, you have not missed your chance.
Advanced Open Water is not a magic card that suddenly makes you an expert diver. It is where you start building experience, adding task loading, sharpening your skills, and taking real ownership of what happens underwater. Here is why I think of AOW as “Open Water Plus,” and why that is a very good thing.
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Some people try scuba once. Some dive every few years. And some of us get bitten by the bug so hard that the underwater world quietly rearranges our lives.
The 2026 scuba diving season is beginning. Dive With Frank shares why this time of year is special and the moment when diving finally “clicks.”
September 24 – October 4, 2026
Sun. Salt. Soft coral walls. The South Pacific done right.
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April 24 – May 1, 2027
Warm water. Caribbean reefs. Easy diving. Big adventure energy.
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Three trips. Plenty of teeth.
One heck of a season.
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