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
- Manual
- PADI Certification that lasts a lifetime
- Kit Hire included (suit, weights, cylinders, BCD, regulator and gauge, Dive computer, air)
Course price
Price: £340.00
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 £12 per day and second day at Vobster, entry fee £22 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 - 2020 | Day 2 - 2020 |
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Saturday 23rd January | Sunday 24th January |
Thursday 18th February | Friday 19th February |
Saturday 20th February | Sunday 21st February |
Saturday 20th March | Sunday 21st March |
Thursday 8th April | Friday 9th April |
Saturday 17th April | Sunday 18th April |
Saturday 15th May | Sunday 16th May |
Thursday 27th May | Friday 28th May |
Saturday 12th June | Sunday 13th June |
Saturday 10th July | Sunday 11th July |
Thursday 22nd July | Friday 23rd July |
Saturday 7th August | Sunday 8th August |
Thursday 19th August | Friday 29th August |
Saturday 4th September | Sunday 5th September |
Saturday 2nd October | Sunday 3rd October |
Saturday 16th October | Sunday 17th October |
Thursday 28th October | Friday 29th October |
Saturday 13th November | Sunday 14th November |
Saturday 11th December | Sunday 12th 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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