PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course
Learn advanced diving skills on one of out luxury Liveaboard yachts

Now that you have your open water license, if you want to build on your diving skills and experience and to explore even more of the underwater world you have the possibility to step into the Advanced Open Water course. This license involves 5 speciality dives and can be easily completed over only 2 days.

STAGE ONE: The Advanced course includes; 2 dives that are compulsory

• Deep Dive – this dive will bring you down to 30 metres experiencing the effects of Nitrogen Narcosis, and where you can see a wider variety of marine life that live at these depths. For the dive regions that we visit this deep dive experience is essential.

• Navigation Dive – during this dive you will learn how to use a compass and natural forms of navigation and orientation so that in the future you will be self-reliant to dive just with your buddy instead of a group

STAGE TWO: complete your course by picking any 3 of these dives:

• Drift Dive - learn some simple techniques that allow you to drift effortlessly along with the currents and finish the dive deploying your surface marker before you ascend safely to the waiting boat

• Night Dive – the underwater world is completely different at night! Experience the glowing phosphorescence as you turn off your torch, follow the hunting giant barracudas, find lobsters, dancing durban shrimps and decorated crabs.

• Naturalist Dive – intensify your knowledge of fish and corals as we will teach you all about underwater life from Southeast Asia and around the world.

• Multilevel Dive – in this dive you will learn how to use the ‘Wheel’ and/or Dive Computer effectively, which will enable you to increase your bottom time as you calculate your dives more accurately and safely.

• Peak Performance Buoyancy – improve your buoyancy, increase your breathing efficiency, learn how to streamline your body correctly so that you can get the most out of your dives making them longer, more enjoyable and relaxing.

• Photography Dive – capture your underwater impressions with our diving cameras. We will create a package of your photographs so that you can show off at home!

• Wreck Diving – explore intriguing boat wrecks both new and very old that have been laying at the bottom of the ocean and have served as an artifical reef to a variety of fish and coral specimens.