Four scuba divers holding hands underwater whilst conducting Advanced course training

PADI ADVANCED OPEN WATER COURSE

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The PADI Advanced Diver Course qualifies you to dive deeper, perfects your skills and enables you to experience different types of adventure diving!

Diving isn’t an adventure, its many adventures, and that’s what the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course is all about – expanding your underwater horizons, accelerating your experience, developing your skills and making you a more capable, confident diver as you take on some of diving’s most popular activities. It’s about making new friends, seeing new sights and of course having new adventures!

The PADI Advanced diver course takes just 2 full days to complete. First, you will receive a PADI Advanced diver manual from which you need to read, study and complete five knowledge reviews. Next, complete the corresponding five Adventure dives. Finally, upon course completion, you will be qualified to dive to a maximum depth of 30 meters!

The Advanced Diver course expands your underwater world through new discoveries and experiences. It builds on your current interests while refining your skills, making you a more confident diver both above and below the surface. You’ll refine your skills, discover new passions, your dive Adventure awaits!

Huge table coral on reef diving at Mayne reef dive site in Kota Belud Sabah

The PADI Advanced diver course has NO EXAM! Aternatively, your instructor will evaluate your learning by asking questions, having discussions and watching you put what you know into practice.

Schedule:
Day 1
Complete 2 Adventure dives with corresponding theory 
Day 2
Complete 3 Adventure dives with corresponding theory
Requirements:
PADI Open Water Diver or other equivalent certification (e.g CMAS 1*, SSI or STILT Open Water)

Scuba divers conducting dive skills underwater with dive instructor during PADI Advanced Open water dive course

Adventure dives that are required for certification:
Deep and Navigation

Choose another three Adventure dives from the following;
Peak Performance Buoyancy (Recommended)
Night Dive (Recommended)
Drift Dive
Fish Identification Dive
Digital Underwater Imaging
Search and Recovery

Adventure Dives

PADI Instructor briefing Bouyancy dive by the beach during PADI Adcvanced open water diver course

Adventure dives comprise the Advanced Open Water Course, which credit towards Advanced Open Water Certification. You may complete any of these under instructor supervision, providing you read the appropriate PADI materials and complete the corresponding knowledge review. Complete 3 and you are an Adventure Diver, complete 5 and you are an Advanced Diver!

Adventure dives offered:
Deep
navigation
​Peak Performance Buoyancy
 (Recommended)
Night Dive (Recommended)
Drift Dive
Fish Identification Dive

Digital Underwater Imaging
Search and Recovery

Combine your PADI Advanced course with a trip of a lifetime to the world renowned SIPADAN Island!