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:
“O polished perturbation! golden care!
That keep’st the ports of slumber open wide
To many a watchful night.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck’s back.”
—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)