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PADI Advanced Open Water

PADI ADVANCED OPEN WATER COURSE WITH SCUBA SHACK

If you’ve already got your PADI Open Water Diver certification there is no better time or place to move up to the next level! You are eligible to take the Advanced Open Water course as soon as you have finished the Open Water Diver course. It’s definitely worth taking the next step and building your confidence and abilities under water.

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PADI ADVANCED OPEN WATER DIVER PRE-REQUISITES

To start the Advanced Open Water Diver course you need to be at least 12 years old and certified as an Open Water Diver.

All PADI courses and programs require you to answer a medical questionnaire. Please take a look at the PADI Medical Participant Questionnaire to find out if you should be examined by your Doctor before participating in Recreational Scuba Diving.

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PADI ADVANCED OPEN WATER COURSE
WHAT’S INVOLVED

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During this course you’ll learn about different specialty areas of diving by going on 5 adventure dives. The required dives are underwater navigation and deep diving. You’ll learn how to use a compass and different tools for navigating a dive site, then put them to practice navigating a dive with your buddy! You’ll also learn about special equipment and considerations for safely planning and executing deep dives.

This course will certify you to a maximum depth of 30 meters! All adventure dives can also credit towards the corresponding PADI specialty course. Other specialty areas to choose from for your adventure dives include:

  • Wreck Diving
  • Peak Performance Buoyancy
  • Night Diving
  • Multilevel and Computer Diving
  • Search and Recovery

You can even start your course now by signing up for PADI eLearning. You study at your own pace through an easy to use, interactive program. The theory for all of the adventure dives are available including Deep, Night, Navigation, Peak Performance Buoyancy and Wreck. Start now with PADI eLearning.

 
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PADI ADVANCED OPEN WATER COURSE SCHEDULE

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DAY 1

Meet at the shop at 11.00

Your instructor will go over your completed knowledge reviews for the first two adventure dives. We then leave the shop at 12.00 to join our afternoon trip for your first two adventure dives. One of the dives will be the compulsory underwater navigation dive. Return about 5.00 pm. .

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DAY 2

Meet at Scuba Shack at 05.45.

Join our morning trip and complete your next two adventure dives. One of these will be the compulsory deep dive. Return about 10.30 am.

If you choose to do a night dive as part of your advanced open water course, you could do it on either day 1 or day 2. We leave for night dives from the shop at 18.00. If not, you could join the afternoon boat on day 2 and complete one more adventure dive of your choice.

HOW MUCH DOES PADI ADVANCED OPEN WATER COURSE COST ON KOH TAO?

The Advanced Open Water course is 11.000 Baht including all materials, the equipment, the instructor, the PADI certification and the online manual. A single Adventure dive is 1.800 Baht.

Ready to take the next step?  Contact Us now to book your course at Scuba Shack, Koh Tao. Get certified on a beautiful tropical island in the Gulf of Thailand.

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FAQ

The PADI Advanced Open Water course consists of 5 adventure dives. There are 2 compulsory dives that need to be completed, the Underwater Navigation Adventure dive and the Deep Adventure dive.

The other 3 dives you can choose depending on what interests you. Some options are: Peak Performance Buoyancy, Wreck dive, Night dive, Fish Identification, Naturalist, and Search & Recovery.
The minimum age to start the PADI Advanced Open Water course is 12 years old. Students between the ages of 12 – 14 will earn the Junior Advanced Open Water certification and are certified to a maximum depth of 21 meters.

Children 10 or 11 years old can get the PADI Adventure Diver certification, a subset of the PADI Advanced Open Water course.
The maximum depth for PADI Advanced, Open Water certification, is 30 meters / 100 feet. You will be certified to dive independently with a certified dive buddy to this depth all around the world.

For Junior Advanced Open Water divers (12 – 14 years old), the maximum depth is 21 meters.
You can complete the PADI Advanced Open Water course in 2 days. First, you will meet your instructor and choose your elective dives, and then you will complete a knowledge review for each of the dives. On day 1, you will go on the boat to complete your first 2 training dives, and the following day you will finish your final dives for certification.

We can be very flexible with the course schedule, which can always be adapted to suit your needs. 
The PADI Advanced Open Water course consists of 5 adventure dives. There are 2 compulsory dives that need to be completed, the Underwater Navigation Adventure dive and the Deep Adventure dive.

The other 3 dives you can choose depending on what interests you. Some of the options are: Peak Performance Buoyancy, Wreck dive, Night dive, Fish Identification, Naturalist and Search & Recovery.

The PADI Advanced Open Water Course consists of 5 adventure dives. The 2 dives that are mandatory are:

  • Underwater Navigation Dive: Learn more about using a compass, combined with natural navigation techniques to find your way around a dive site.
  • Deep Dive: Dive to a maximum depth of 30 meters (21 meters for 12 – 14-year-olds)

In addition to the deep and underwater navigation dives, during the PADI Advanced Open Water course you choose three more elective dives. Some of the options include:

  • Peak Performance Buoyancy: Fine tune your buoyancy control and position in the water and improve your air consumption rate
  • Wreck Dive: Explore the HTMS Sattakut shipwreck
  • Fish ID: Learn to identify different fish families on the tropical reefs of Koh Tao, Thailand.
  • Underwater Naturalist: Learn more about marine species, appreciating the symbiotic relationships between aquatic organisms.
  • Search and Recovery:Devise and execute a range of search patterns based on varying conditions and the size of the target, and practice recovering heavy objects by using a lift bag.
All PADI Scuba diving courses and programs require a minimum level of health and fitness. You are required to complete a medical questionnaire before any in-water training. Chronic health conditions, certain medications and/or recent surgery may require you to get written approval from a physician before diving.

Avoid disappointment, download and review the Diver Medical form to ensure you won’t need a physician’s approval to dive before enrolling in a scuba course. If you (or your physician) have questions about medical fitness to dive, contact the experts at Divers Alert Network (DAN).

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