Advanced Open Water Diver Course

ADVANCED OPEN WATER DIVER COURSE

The Advanced Open Water Diver course spreads over 2 days and 5 dives, all-inclusive of Equipment and Certification. You get the best diver training and full-time supervision, and everything is included in the price, with no hidden extras. Create your personal scuba diving package and choose your Accommodation click here, 

Phuket Dive Tours are one of the few dual agencies in Phuket that offer Advanced open water diving courses from both PADI & SSI having received 2 awards in 2017 from PADI who proudly recognized both our outstanding contributions to the diving industry as well as awarding us the PADI 5 Star rating. In January 2018 we also joined SSI (Scuba Schools International) to offer our customers even more choice for Advanced open water education. As our team of instructors is licensed to teach both PADI & SSI Advanced open water courses we can advise you if you are unsure what course option would suit your time frame, expectations & overall experience.

In August 2018 we commenced development with the extension at our Kata beach location creating a unique dive resort & Instructor training center with a purpose-built private dive pool, this is due to open in late October 2018. This is the ideal location for your advanced course, affordable accommodation, onsite restaurant, massage with the advantage of being 100m from the main local beach at Kata and local nightlife.

Don’t pay for e learning get it for free!

Most visitors to the island who are intent on getting scuba certified get more Bang for your Bucks, with free SSI digital E-learning when they sign up for the SSI Advanced Adventurer course. You receive free digital C card & digital logbook available as an App on smartphones. You can also access their digital advanced adventure diver card and logbook for free without paying extra. sign up for the  free training here

The free SSI online e-learning integrate perfectly into the logistics of everyday life. This suits most certified divers meaning you learn at your own pace at home, online, then complete the adventure dives here with your instructor and this is at no extra cost.

Like any training course if you pre-study you are well ahead of the game on the learning curve. It is important to remember that the top globally recognized agencies are similar brands that meet the same international standards. It’s worth pointing out at this point that the Instructor for your advanced course has the biggest influence on the quality of the courses and the divers they produce. 

With any training course, there’s no substitute for one to one private instruction, we don’t charge extra for this service in Low season (May to November) You learn at your pace, you get the Dive instructors full 100% attention  Each adventure dive you complete as part of the Advanced Open Water Diver course will also be credited toward the first dive of the corresponding Specialty Diver course.

 Advanced Open water diver certification:

SSI and PADI are global leaders in the diving industry for the last 50 years, when it comes to Dive course materials and diver certification there’s simply no 2 other agencies that come anywhere near to certifying divers worldwide. It’s irrelevant what advanced open water course reading materials you choose as both brands are similar in many ways each conforms to the international standards for advanced diving education  ISO 24803:2017.

The 2 largest agencies have been around since 1969 and 1970, respectively, and have high-quality teaching materials and high standards. Both brands are certified by the WRSTC (World Recreational Scuba Training Council) and the ISO/EUF (International Standards Organisation/European Underwater Federation). The knowledge and skill requirements are almost identical which means certifications are equivalent, interchangeable and recognized globally. The PADI Brand will require that you must purchase an open water manual whereas SSI provides this for free for 6 months as a digital library loan with the option to buy if you want a paper book.

If signing up for the PADI Advanced Open Water course, you will receive the Adventure in the diving hard paper manual as a loan book
While each chapter documents a specific aspect or type of dive it is important to read them all to understand and appreciate all the skills the advanced open water diving offers.
You can choose 5 exciting adventure dives from the  Manual and listen to a dive briefing by the instructor who will review the Adventure Dive objectives and performance requirements while giving you an overview of the dive site and what marine life is common to the area.

What’s Included in the course price:

ALL our course prices include dive equipment, How to use a dive computer Advanced open water study material, Breakfast, Lunch on boat diving days and certification card.

Prices reflect on locations of dive sites traveling times. An additional charge may apply to locations outside of Patong, Kata, Karon areas, so please ask…

We strongly recommend that you think seriously about buying your own dive gear and equipment for your own future use and we have a special offer of 10% off any equipment you purchase for your diver training development.

Not included is Digital camera rental for the digital underwater photography adventure dive  –  you have the option of renting for 2000 thb or taking your own on the dives

Advanced Open water course schedule.

DAY 1

You will be met by a member of your  Instructor who will be with you for the full duration of your course. When on the dive boat the instructor will go over the details of the mandatory underwater navigation adventure dive that will boost your confidence of finding your way around underwater even in bad visibility, its easy when you know how to use your compass, measure longer distance using elapsed dive time using a dive computer, or cover shorter distances using kick cycles to navigate like a pro.

Advanced open water dive sites include:

• Koh Doc Mai
• Shark Point
• King Cruiser Wreck
• Phi Phi Island

Day 2

Dive 2 of the day will be based on your choice from the Advanced open water diver manual, you may want to work on Buoyancy skills. The remaining Adventure dives can be any of the following, check out the local wrecks around Phuket, or get to grips with a diver propulsion vehicle ( DPV), try your hand at Underwater Photography, fly over a reef on a Drift dive adventure, experience using Nitrox enriched air and much more.

Prior to registration on the Advanced open water diver course, You must be an Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization) and 15 years old (12 for Junior Advanced Open Water Diver) Participants under 16 years must be accompanied on the course by a parent or legal guardian at all times while underwater, or on land or Boat.

Dive Course formulas & descriptions:

Special offer Similan liveaboard (minimum booking 2 divers) for 2 days 1 night 7 dives Similan liveaboard + SSI Advanced adventure Course (equivalent to PADI & BSAC Advanced Diver)  limited availability

2 BEACH DIVES + 3 BOAT DIVING 5 DIVES

Day 1 complete 2 Dives at Kata Beach Navigation or Night dive Adventures Dive + Fish ID, Underwater Naturalist (meet at the dive shop )
Day 2 complete 3 dives at King Cruiser Shark Point Koh Doc Mai (Deep – Wreck – Drift)

2 DAYS BOAT DIVING 5 BOAT DIVES

Day 1 complete 2 Dives at Racha Yai dive site Navigation Dive + Fish ID, Underwater Naturalist
Day 2 complete 3 dives at King Cruiser Shark Point Koh Doc Mai (Deep – Wreck – Drift)

2 DAYS BOAT DIVING 6 BOAT DIVES

Day 1 complete 3 Dives at Phi Phi + Shark Point 3 dives or Navigation Dive + Fish ID, Underwater Naturalist
Day 2 complete 3 dives at King Cruiser Shark Point Koh Doc Mai (Deep – Wreck – Drift)

Alternatives to Advanced open water Diver course

Note Included  – Phi Phi National Marine Park Fees 400 baht entry fee + 200 baht diver’s fee

Here’s some videos to give you some ideas of the course structure

DAY 2

Your first Advanced open water dives today will be the mandatory Deep Adventure dive you and your instructor will review the practice objectives, go over planning and organizing needed for Deep Dives, along with special skills, procedures, and how to avoid hazards at depth, the supervised experience of diving is between depths of 22m – 30m. You will also complete 2 other Adventure dives from the Advanced open water diver Manual.

Night Diving is also available at Kata Beach as part of the Advanced diver Training.

 

BOAT DIVING TRANSFERS

Our Office is located at Kata Beach, we have Daily Free Local Departures/transfers from all Hotels in the following resorts :-travelling time to Chalong marina is around 15 minutes

7:00 Kamala Beach  – 7:15 am Kalim Beach – (Transfers to boat 1Hr – 1Hr 20Mins )

7:30 Patong (Transfers to boat 1 Hour )

7:45 Kata Beach – Karon Beach –  Rawai Beach – Nai Harn – Chalong Bay (Transfers to boat 15 Mins )

Extra Charge Private car Transfer fee from: 7:ooam Ban Tao & Surin Beach – Maikhao Beach  – Airport Area 1,800 THB return.

Extra Charge Shared Transfer fees  – 7:00am Cape Panwa   Koh Siray – 7.15am Phuket Town 1,000THB private car pick up with return (Transfers to boat 30 Mins )

The tour itineraries can be change depend on the local weather condition any changes will be made by the tour leader and boat captain on your trip based on matters of safety

Buy  Now online – 100% refund back into your account within 12 hours if the trip is cancelled due to Bad weather – we dont take any money when mother nature stops the scuba diving

Contact us with any enquiry for course options and Venues for the Advanced Course You Want to do..