EXPLORATION, EXCITEMENT, EXPERIENCES

The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course is all about making your diving more relaxing and better. It’s designed to advance your diving to a higher level in many specialities. this is a great course to start directly after taking your PADI Open Water Diver certification. The course is designed to help build confidence and expand your scuba skills through different Adventure Dives. You try out different specialties while gaining experience under the supervision of our fully qualified PADI Instructors. You log dives and develop capabilities as you find new ways to have fun scuba diving.

Get your credit ! Each Adventure Dive may credit toward the first dive of the corresponding  PADI Specialty Diver Course. If you’ve already taken a specialty diver course, ask  our instructors if you’ve earned credit for an Adventure Dive.

Within the Padi Advanced Open Water Course You will plan your learning path with one of our instructors by choosing from a long list of Adventure Dives. There are two required dives that most be completed – Deep Dive  and Underwater Navigation – and you can choose the other three, for a total of five dives.

During the Deep Adventure Dive, you learn how to plan dives to deal with the physiological effects and challenges of deeper scuba diving. The Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive refines your compass navigation skills and helps you better navigate using kick-cycles, visual landmarks and time.

The other knowledge and skills you get vary with your interest and the adventures you have – photography, buoyancy control, fish identification, exploring wrecks and many more.

You may be able to get college credit for the Advanced Open Water Diver course.

• All fees materials and Certification application.
• Hotel pick up and return (Pattaya area)
  Rental Equipment
• Delicious Thai and western food, freshly cooked on the boat
• Water, coffee, tea, soft drinks
• Assorted tropical Thai fruit

At Jomtien Dive Center Pattaya, We try  not have large groups of people to 1 instructor this is purely for safety reasons and giving you the best instruction we can. The maximum is 1 instructor to 2 students.

You receive a code to register online and then you can read and study the theory online before the dives. The theory will be reviewed and reinforced by your PADI instructor during the dives. Unlike the Open water course are is no videos to watch and no quizzes or final exam.

WHO SHOULD TAKE THIS COURSE?

PADI (Junior) Open Water Divers who are at least 12 years old are ready to step up and enroll in an Advanced Open Water Diver course. Young divers may only participate in certain Adventures Dives. Basically anybody who has taken an Open Water Course – check with our PADI Instructors.

Any specialty dive you choose for your Advanced Open Water Diver Course will count as the first dive towards your full PADI Specialty Diver certification.

•  Minimum Age 12     Completed  Medical    Open water certified

Please read the medical statement and make sure you are medically fit to dive before booking your course. Any YES answers you must be signed off by a doctor before you start.

Please note you cannot fly for at least 18hrs after diving.

We provide all the basic scuba gear you will use including a mask, snorkel, fins, regulator with dive gauge, buoyancy control device, tanks and weights.

Beyond using basic scuba equipment, you’ll need a compass and dive knife or dive tool. You’ll also use specialized gear depending on the Adventure Dives you choose. For example, you’d obviously use a Compass for the Underwater Navigator Adventure Dive or a side-mount configuration during the Side-mount Adventure Dive. Our PADI Instructors will explain the equipment that you need and may suggest additional gear, such as dive light for night diving or lift bag for search and recovery diving.