PADI Advanced Open Water Diver

What is the PADI Advanced Open Water course all about? Exploration, excitement and experiences!

If you love to dive, and are looking to improve your underwater skills, beyond your Open water certification then the PADI Advanced Open Water diver course is just the course for you. There is a list of adventure dives that you and your instructor will plan accordingly to your scuba interests and is a great way to get more dives under your belt while expanding your scuba knowledge.

This course is designed to increase your confidence, build on your scuba skills developed in your PADI Open Water course and introduce you to new underwater activities. In the end you will find you have become a more comfortable and confident Scuba diver.

Unlike the PADI Open Water Diver course this academic section is not so time consuming or classroom based. This course is more about diving experiences and exploration! All you need to do is read and complete the relevant section for each dive you will be making and review the questions with your instructor.

The excitement begins by choosing your Adventure dives with your instructor! There are two compulsory dives that will need to be completed, these include a Deep Dive and Underwater Navigation Dive.

You will then decide on your next three Adventure Dives which will make a total of 5 dives altogether over 2-3 days.

This dive is designed to increase your awareness of the underwater world, and teach you ways to use your underwater compass, elapsed time, and natural navigation techniques.

This will increase the effectiveness of planning a dive and avoid confusion and anxiety as you are navigating a dive site under unfamiliar conditions.

With the Deep Dive you will cover the practical aspects of deep diving as well as the physiological affects you need to be aware of when making deeper dives.

Your PADI instructor will take time to run through equipment preparation and considerations required for deeper dives, which will be done at Sail Rock!

Excellent buoyancy control is what defines skilled scuba divers. You’ve seen them underwater. They glide effortlessly, use less air and ascend, descend or hover almost as if by thought. They more easily observe aquatic life without disturbing their surroundings. You can achieve this, too.

In this dive we explain proper fin kicks, perfect trim and ways to be the best diver.

• 2-3 Days of Instruction
• Materials and certification from PADI
• All equipment throughout the course
• Breakfast and Lunch will be provided on boat days.
• The best part is, 2 of the dives will be made at Sail Rock, the premier dive site in the Gulf of Thailand!
• Free Reefers T-Shirt
• Can combine Enriched Air Nitrox course certification for an additional 5,500THB

Adventure Dives; Deep, Underwater Navigation and Peak Performance Buoyancy are mandatory dives and you can choose 2 other adventure dives.

• Boat Diver
• Digital Underwater Imaging
• Drift Diving
• Enriched Air Diver
• Fish Identification
• Night Diving
• Search and Recovery
• Underwater Naturalist

Each Adventure Dive may be credited towards the first dive of the PADI Specialty diver course on that subject.

Upon completion you will be able to dive to a depth of 30 meters and participate on dives that you wouldn’t be able to as an Open Water diver.

• Must be 12 years of age
• Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or hold a qualifying certification from another training organization.
• Complete a Medical form (Download here) or have doctors approval