PADI OPEN WATER CERIFICATION EXAM QUESTIONS
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION
The four central dive skills include:
Planning dives with secondary objectives
Developing and applying situational awareness
Managing task loading
Maintaining good dive habits
I learn the central dive skills to help me transition from novice-
thinking to experienced-thinking approaches to diving. (T/F)
True
A secondary objective is anything I want to accomplish on a dive
beyond coming back safely (T/F)
True
While night diving, I momentarily lose track of where I am. Just above
the bottom I turn to signal my buddy, who's lagging behind. As I
hover while waiting for my buddy to catch up, my fins dip and begin
stirring up the bottom, and then my dive light fails. Based on Dive
First, Situation Second and Communicate Third, I would first:
deploy my backup light and restore my buoyancy/trim
People who have good habits think faster under stress. (T/F)
False
A good habit is to choose to have surface signaling devices on the
dives when I'm most likely to need them. (T/F)
False
I'm on a dive boat in a new area. As I confirm that I have a visual and
an audible signaling device, I notice all the local divers have two of
each. I should (choose all that apply)
find out why in case I should have two of each, too.
get one more of each kind myself.
While swimming on a reef, my buddy and I get a bit disoriented, but
after swimming a bit we find ourselves over sand with ripples. That
may help us, because sand ripples generally lie
Parallel to shore
My buddy and I want to navigate to an underwater sculpture placed
about 200 metres/yards away. We have about 4 metres/12 feet of
visibility and will use a compass heading to get there. My buddy
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION
The four central dive skills include:
Planning dives with secondary objectives
Developing and applying situational awareness
Managing task loading
Maintaining good dive habits
I learn the central dive skills to help me transition from novice-
thinking to experienced-thinking approaches to diving. (T/F)
True
A secondary objective is anything I want to accomplish on a dive
beyond coming back safely (T/F)
True
While night diving, I momentarily lose track of where I am. Just above
the bottom I turn to signal my buddy, who's lagging behind. As I
hover while waiting for my buddy to catch up, my fins dip and begin
stirring up the bottom, and then my dive light fails. Based on Dive
First, Situation Second and Communicate Third, I would first:
deploy my backup light and restore my buoyancy/trim
People who have good habits think faster under stress. (T/F)
False
A good habit is to choose to have surface signaling devices on the
dives when I'm most likely to need them. (T/F)
False
I'm on a dive boat in a new area. As I confirm that I have a visual and
an audible signaling device, I notice all the local divers have two of
each. I should (choose all that apply)
find out why in case I should have two of each, too.
get one more of each kind myself.
While swimming on a reef, my buddy and I get a bit disoriented, but
after swimming a bit we find ourselves over sand with ripples. That
may help us, because sand ripples generally lie
Parallel to shore
My buddy and I want to navigate to an underwater sculpture placed
about 200 metres/yards away. We have about 4 metres/12 feet of
visibility and will use a compass heading to get there. My buddy
