PADI ADVANCED OPEN WATER DIVER COURSE

The theoretical part of the course is very easy compared to your initial course and a lot more focused on your interests in scuba diving.

You will receive your own PADI Advanced Open Water E-Manual which contains information about all the existing activities and adventure dives worldwide.

Out of these you will choose 3 dives as your elective dives on top of the 2 mandatory dives, which are your deep and navigation dives.

Once chosen you will work through the chapters which explain all the important information specific to this area of diving, plus a little section called “Thinking like a diver” which will make you more aware about the basics and safety you learned in previous courses.

For some dives, like navigation, there may be a little land practice before you go on the boat to make it easier for you to visualize the dives at hand.

There is no exam at the end of this course, you will pass the theory once you reviewed the Knowledge Reviews with your instructor.

You will take a total of 5 Adventure Dives over two or three days depending on your choice of dives, time frame and preference.

We always try to adjust your schedule depending on the dive sites chosen for the day as well as comfort and experience level.

In general, some of the dives like Navigation or Buoyancy Control Diving ask for slightly shallower sites and we use those to get started to work on air consumption, general underwater skills and to get to know each other on Day 1 of your course.

As you will be taking a Deep Dive, we generally combine this with some other dives that are naturally deeper (like our favourite, Wreck Dive) on the second day of the course.

Depending on your choice of dives you may be joining our night dive trip on either day of your course, take another dive on either day or simply stay another day and take the remaining dive together with a fun dive to get even more experience. It’s up to you!

Now time for the best bit! Your first Open water dives will allow you to put everything you have learnt over the previous two days into practice.

On the afternoon of Day 3, you will complete Open Water training dives 1 & 2. With a maximum depth limit of 12 metres your instructor will guide you around the dive site as you become comfortable with your buoyancy, swimming underwater and the open water environment.

You will repeat a few of the skills you mastered the previous day in the swimming pool and of course, there will be time on both of your dives for an underwater tour, exploring the coral reefs and around Koh Tao.

On the final morning of the course, you will complete Open Water training dives 3 & 4, this time to a maximum depth of 18 metres. Expect to see lots of bright corals, colourful tropical fish, moray eels, stingrays and maybe even a hawksbill turtle.