PADI OPEN WATER TEST 2026/2027 EXAM PAPER
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔20: Choose the best answer for the signal shown from the choices provided.
A Which is the right way?
B Something is wrong.
C Go up and down.
D Everything is okay. - ✔✔B Something is wrong.
This is the hand signal for something is wrong. See Your Skills as a Diver I - Hand
Signals.
✔✔21: Choose the best answer for the signal shown from the choices provided.
A My finger is cold.
B Go around the rock.
C Okay? Okay.
D Stay together. - ✔✔C Okay? Okay.
This is the hand signal for Okay. See Your Skills as a Diver I - Hand Signals.
✔✔22: Choose the best answer for the signal shown from the choices provided.
A Wave to friends on the beach.
B I need more weight.
C Distress, help.
D I need the boat to pick me up. - ✔✔C Distress, help.
This is the hand signal for distress or I need help on the surface. See Your Skills as a
Diver I - Hand Signals.
✔✔23: Choose the best answer for the signal shown from the choices provided.
A Okay? Okay. (on the surface at a distance)
B I have cramps in my legs.
C I would like to snorkel in.
D Boat pick up, I have air. - ✔✔A Okay? Okay. (on the surface at a distance)
This is the hand signal for Okay on the surface. See Your Skills as a Diver I - Hand
Signals.
✔✔24: Choose the best answer for the signal shown from the choices provided.
A Which way to the boat?
, B Stay at this depth.
C Go this way.
D Out of air. - ✔✔D Out of air.
This is the hand signal for out of air. See Your Skills as a Diver I - Hand Signals.
✔✔25: Choose the best answer for the signal shown from the choices provided.
A Look at me.
B Low on air.
C Share air.
D Go up. - ✔✔B Low on air.
This is the hand signal for low on air. See Your Skills as a Diver I - Hand Signals.
✔✔26: Choose the best answer for the signal shown from the choices provided.
A Turn the dive.
B Share air.
C I am thirsty.
D I have lost my mouthpiece. - ✔✔B Share air.
This is the hand signal for share air. See Your Skills as a Diver I - Hand Signals.
✔✔27: If I were separated from my buddy, the general procedure is to
A go up immediately, wait a minute and then go back down.
B search for a minute and then go up to reunite with my buddy at the surface.
C go to the surface immediately and get out of the water.
D look for my buddy's bubbles and follow the bubbles to find my buddy. - ✔✔B Search
for a minute and then go up to reunite with my buddy at the surface.
The general procedure for buddy separation is to search for no more than one minute,
then surface to reunite. See Being a Diver II - The Buddy System.
✔✔28: I am most likely to become confused about which way is up or down
_____________.
A at the surface
B near the surface
C on the bottom
D in midwater - ✔✔D In midwater
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔20: Choose the best answer for the signal shown from the choices provided.
A Which is the right way?
B Something is wrong.
C Go up and down.
D Everything is okay. - ✔✔B Something is wrong.
This is the hand signal for something is wrong. See Your Skills as a Diver I - Hand
Signals.
✔✔21: Choose the best answer for the signal shown from the choices provided.
A My finger is cold.
B Go around the rock.
C Okay? Okay.
D Stay together. - ✔✔C Okay? Okay.
This is the hand signal for Okay. See Your Skills as a Diver I - Hand Signals.
✔✔22: Choose the best answer for the signal shown from the choices provided.
A Wave to friends on the beach.
B I need more weight.
C Distress, help.
D I need the boat to pick me up. - ✔✔C Distress, help.
This is the hand signal for distress or I need help on the surface. See Your Skills as a
Diver I - Hand Signals.
✔✔23: Choose the best answer for the signal shown from the choices provided.
A Okay? Okay. (on the surface at a distance)
B I have cramps in my legs.
C I would like to snorkel in.
D Boat pick up, I have air. - ✔✔A Okay? Okay. (on the surface at a distance)
This is the hand signal for Okay on the surface. See Your Skills as a Diver I - Hand
Signals.
✔✔24: Choose the best answer for the signal shown from the choices provided.
A Which way to the boat?
, B Stay at this depth.
C Go this way.
D Out of air. - ✔✔D Out of air.
This is the hand signal for out of air. See Your Skills as a Diver I - Hand Signals.
✔✔25: Choose the best answer for the signal shown from the choices provided.
A Look at me.
B Low on air.
C Share air.
D Go up. - ✔✔B Low on air.
This is the hand signal for low on air. See Your Skills as a Diver I - Hand Signals.
✔✔26: Choose the best answer for the signal shown from the choices provided.
A Turn the dive.
B Share air.
C I am thirsty.
D I have lost my mouthpiece. - ✔✔B Share air.
This is the hand signal for share air. See Your Skills as a Diver I - Hand Signals.
✔✔27: If I were separated from my buddy, the general procedure is to
A go up immediately, wait a minute and then go back down.
B search for a minute and then go up to reunite with my buddy at the surface.
C go to the surface immediately and get out of the water.
D look for my buddy's bubbles and follow the bubbles to find my buddy. - ✔✔B Search
for a minute and then go up to reunite with my buddy at the surface.
The general procedure for buddy separation is to search for no more than one minute,
then surface to reunite. See Being a Diver II - The Buddy System.
✔✔28: I am most likely to become confused about which way is up or down
_____________.
A at the surface
B near the surface
C on the bottom
D in midwater - ✔✔D In midwater
