Move up & experience real adventure with the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course. As you step beyond the PADI Open Water Diver level, you make five dives & have the opportunity to try some of diving's most rewarding & useful specialty activities, such as deep diving, digital underwater photography, wreck diving & much more. These skills make diving much more than underwater sightseeing.


Plus, the Advanced Open Water Diver course takes you one step closer to Master Scuba Diver - the ultimate non professional certification in recreational diving.

With your PADI Instructor you complete the deep & underwater navigation Adventure Dives. These dives boost your confidence as you build these foundational skills. Then, you choose three additional dives from 14 Adventure Dives to complete your course. You can go diving at night, check out the local wrecks in the area or even fly through the ocean on a diver propulsion vehicle - all during your PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course.


  • Number of dives: Five dives (2 Compulsory & 3 Optional Dives)
    (Complusory Dives are Deep & Navigation)

  • Adventure Dive options include:

  • Altitude diving
  • AWARE-fish identification
  • Boat diving
  • Deep diving
  • Diver propulsion vehicle use
  • Drift diving
  • Multilevel & computer diving
  • Night diving
  • Peak performance buoyancy
  • Search & recovery
  • Underwater nature study
  • Underwater Navigation
  • Underwater photography
  • Wreck diving

  • Compulsory Adventure Dives include: A Deep Dive & a Navigation Dive
  • Each Adventure Dive in the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course may credit toward the first dive of the corresponding PADI Specialty Diver course
  • Materials: Adventures in Diving Crew-Pak, Adventures in Diving manual & video
  • Certification counts toward the Master Scuba Diver rating

    What's Included...

  • Instructor, of course
  • All equipment
  • PADI materials & certification fees
  • Boat fees
  • Breakfast, tea & coffee on the boat ¹
  • Water & Lunch on the boat ²
  • A good time & lots of fun...

    What You Need To Bring...

  • Sunblock or Suntan lotion
  • Sunglasses &/or a hat
  • Swimming stuff
  • Towel
  • A little bit of money for soft drinks like coke, fanta or ice tea for on the boat ¹
  • Lots of smiles & enthusiasm

    Course Requirements...

  • Must be a PADI Open Water Diver
  • & 15 years old (12 for Junior Advanced Open Water Diver)
  • Good health, reasonable fitness & comfort in the water
  • Olympic standard swimming is not required...
  • But a good time is...
¹ Only when diving from Dive boats leaving from the South of Phuket

² Water, fruit & lunch provided on Local Dives & when diving in the South of Phuket