Advanced Open Water Course Phuket

Improve Your Diving Abilities And Go Deeper

The PADI Advanced Open Water Course Phuket is designed to expand your knowledge and scuba skills, boost your confidence as a diver, while you have fun too! It involves academic training and 5 specialty dives over 2 days, with the guidance of your experienced instructor.

The certification allows you to dive to a depth of up to 30 metres anywhere in the world and is a requirement on some liveaboard trips.

The price of this two-day in-depth course is just 13,500 THB per person.

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Requirements

The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course Phuket is open to anyone who is a certified Open Water diver, aged 12 years or above and in good health.

Already have the Advanced certification? Then why not take your diving to the next level with the PADI Rescue Diver Course or refine your diving with one of our Specialty Courses.

The Course

The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course requires successful completion of two essential dives:

  • Underwater Navigation
  • Deep Diving – certification to dive up to a depth of 30 metres

You will also chose three elective dives from a choice of:

  • Wreck Diving
  • Boat Diving
  • Drift Diving
  • Underwater Naturalist
  • Search and Recovery
  • Night Diving (Additional charge of 2500 THB. Not available May – Oct)
  • Peak Performance Buoyancy
  • Digital Underwater Photography (Your own camera is required)
  • AWARE-Fish Identification

Schedule

The course begins on day 1 when you will be collected from your hotel between 7.15-45am and transferred to Chalong pier. Your instructor will be there to meet you and escort you to the dive boat for your day of learning and diving. After a cooked breakfast and completion of the knowledge review of your first specialty dive, you will arrive at the first dive site. Once you have successfully demonstrated a number of skills underwater, you can spend the rest of the dive touring the underwater world.

A one-hour surface interval follows where you will complete your second knowledge review, then you will be ready for your second specialty dive of the day. After the second dive, you can enjoy a sumptuous buffet lunch of International and Thai food. The boat will moor up in a beautiful bay for lunch – the ideal location to photograph the stunning islands. After completing your third knowledge review, the last dive of the day will be between 3 and 4pm. You will arrive back to the pier around 5-6.30pm, depending on the dive sites visited and then transferred to your hotel.

Day 2: You will be picked up at the same time and transferred to the pier. You will complete 2 more knowledge reviews and 2 more specialty dives performing different skills each time. Then after lunch you will get to log 1 extra fun dive for free to add to your scuba experience and enjoyment! You will arrive back between 5-6.30pm depending on the dive sites visited and transferred back to your hotel.

Advanced-Open-Water-Course-PhuketDive Sites

Dive sites are generally:
Day 1 – Racha Noi 2 dives and Racha Yai 1 dive
Day 2 – King Cruiser wreck, Shark Point and Koh Doc Mai

Our 3 dive Phi Phi Islands and Shark Point trip is also available by request. There is a National Park Fee to pay of 600 THB per diver & 400 TBH per non-diver

Price

The cost for this two day course is just 13,500 THB per person.

Includes:

  • PADI ‘Adventures in Diving’ manual
  • PADI ‘Adventures in Diving’ data carrier
  • PADI certification fees
  • Scuba equipment rental
  • Boat & Scuba Insurance
  • 6 dives – 5 specialty dives and 1 additional fun dive for FREE
  • Hotel transfers to/from Rawai, Nai Harn, Kata, Karon and Patong
  • Breakfast, lunch, snacks, fruit, tea, coffee & water on days 2 & 3

Excludes:

  • Photo & video service 1,500 THB per day
  • Crew Gratuities

Note: Night diving is conducted from the beach and incurs an additional charge of 2500 THB per person. Night diving is not available during low season May – Oct.

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Note: Please bring sunscreen, sunglasses, swimsuit and a towel with you.

Special Offer

Enroll in the PADI Advanced Open Water Course Phuket and Enriched Air (Nitrox) Course at the same time and get a special discounted all-inclusive price of just 19,400 THB per person. Save 2,000 THB!

This complete package is conducted over 2 days on a day trip dive boat in the open water and includes 3 dives per day – you get 1 extra fun dive for free! Enriched Air (Nitrox) is provided on 3 dives.
All inclusive price of only 19,400 THB per person (Normal price 21,400 THB)

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