Course information
The Advanced Open Water course is designed to advance your diving, so you can start right after earning your PADI Open Water Diver certification. The course helps build confidence and expand your scuba skills through different Adventure Dives. You can try out different specialties while gaining experience under the supervision of your PADI Instructor. You log dives and develop capabilities as you find new ways to have fun scuba diving, it’s all about experimentation of different types of diving and broadening your knowledge and skill sets.
For the Advanced there are two required dives – Deep and Underwater Navigation – and you choose the other three, for a total of five dives. During the Deep Adventure Dive, you learn how to plan dives to deal with the physiological effects and challenges of diving to deeper depths. The Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive refines your compass navigation skills and helps you to navigate using kick cycles, visual landmarks and time, building on your skills from the Open Water Course.
The other knowledge and skills you get vary with your interest and the adventures you have buoyancy control, search and recovery, exploring wrecks and many more.
Once you complete your Advanced you will be qualified to dive to a maximum depth of 30m. Think of how many dive sites that would open up for you!
Course Pre-Requisites
PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization)
Be medically fit to dive, please carefully read the medical declaration below
Prestudy course manual and fill in the Knowledge Review sections before course start
12 years (12 to 14 year olds will be certified as Junior Advanced Open Water Diver)
2 days on a weekend or midweek at Andark Lake and Vobster Quay
What's Included
- 2 Days of tuition which include 5 dives
- Padi Adventures in Diving Manual and slate ( worth RRP £49.97 included)
- PADI Certification that lasts a lifetime
- Kit Hire included (suit, weights, cylinders, BCD, regulator and gauge, Dive computer, air)
Course price
Price: £325.00
What's not included?
Transport to dive sites (Vobster on second day of training)
Entry Fee’s to inland dive site: First day at Andark Lake, entry fee of £10 per day and second day at Vobster, entry fee £18 per day.
Basic equipment for open water dives: mask, snorkel, fins and boots (hood and gloves from October to May)
There is a great selection of equipment to purchase at preferential rates for all Andark Students. View our range here. Including special student prices for dive computers, compasses, SMB’s and more.
Specialty upgrades
For one extra dive during the PADI Advanced Open Water Course you can upgrade elective dives Peak Performance Buoyancy or Dry Suit to the full specialty course at a reduced rate.
What it will cost and what you’ll need?
Upgrade fee Peak Performance Buoyancy : £100
Upgrade fee for Drysuit Course: £100
Course dates
Day 1 - 2019 | Day 2 - 2019 |
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Saturday 23rd March | Sunday 24th March |
Saturday 6th April | Sunday 7th April |
Thursday 18th April | Friday 19th April |
Saturday 4th May | Sunday 5th May |
Saturday 18th May | Sunday 19th May |
Saturday 1st June | Sunday 2nd June |
Saturday 15th June | Sunday 16th June |
Saturday 29th June | Sunday 30th June |
Saturday 13th July | Sunday 14th July |
Saturday 27th July | Sunday 28th July |
Saturday 10th August | Sunday 11th August |
Thursday 15th August | Friday 16th August |
Saturday 24th August | Sunday 25th August |
Thursday 5th September | Friday 6th September |
Saturday 28th September | Sunday 29th September |
Saturday 12th October | Sunday 13th October |
Saturday 26th October | Sunday 27th October |
Thursday 31st October | Friday 1st November |
Saturday 9th November | Sunday 10th November |
Saturday 23rd November | Sunday 24th November |
Saturday 7th December | Sunday 8th December |
How to book
Simply click on the button above and pay online today or phone to book your place then download and complete the PDF document to bring with you.
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