Open water may refer to:
- Open Water (film), a 2003 film about a couple that were accidentally left behind by their scuba diving group
- Open Water (album), a 2006 album by the German singer Sascha Schmitz
- Open-water diving, a place without boundaries where you can dive (sea or lake)
- Open Water Diver, a scuba diving certification level provided by several training agencies
- Open water swimming, an activity in which people swim in large, outdoor bodies of water such as oceans, bays, lakes and rivers
- Water (obstacle), open water jump: an obstacle found in the equestrian sport of show jumping
Famous quotes containing the words open and/or water:
“All of the valuable qualities ... like helping in the development of others—will not get you to the top at General Motors, were that path open to women.... The characteristics most highly developed in women and perhaps most essential to human beings are the very characteristics that are specifically dysfunctional for success in the world as it is.... They may, however, be the important ones for making the world different.”
—Jean Baker Miller (20th century)
“Here is no water but only rock”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)