Advanced Open water course

Dive deeper, improve your diving skills, fine-tune your buoyancy, and learn how to become a more self-sufficient diver. The PADI advanced course is designed to enhance your diving skills and take you to the next level. You'll gain confidence in the water, allowing you to enjoy diving more than ever before.

If you've always wanted to try night diving, learn more about Fish ID, or drift dive, now's your chance. You can sample three different dives to get a sense of what you like. You will undoubtedly finish the course as a more self-sufficient, well-rounded diver! As an advanced diver, you will be able to dive to a maximum depth of 30 meters. This is perfect for going deeper around Sangalaki marine park and increasing your chances of spotting large pelagic species!

As always with Scuba Junkie, safety is our top priority.Our instructors are friendly and experienced, and most have been trained in-house to ensure that we can offer you top quality training, not only in line with PADI standards, but also by our Scuba Junkie standards!

Our Advanced Open Water Course ratio here in Sangalaki is 4 students per instructor for safety and control. Our friendly and professional instructors will guide you safely through your adventure dives, building your confidence as you explore new elements of diving over the stunning reefs. Our equipment is well maintained, and serviced regularly, and our dive boats have all safety equipment you may need, including emergency oxygen and first aid kit.

How about doing your Navigation or Peak performance Buoyancy dives with the chance of being surrounded by manta rays… Or learning how to drift dive safely in areas where the reefs are long and there is a (very good) chance of a current! Need more reasons? What about all the numerous reef fish and coral species that will make your Fish ID or Underwater Naturalist dives a great learning experience? The islands in this area are an excellent location for your course because of its varied topography and abundant marine life.

After your Advanced Open Water Course, we highly encourage you to do some fun diving with us so that you can put what you've learned into practice and gain valuable experience and confidence in the water. We offer special discounted rates for pre-bookings of fun dives as part of the Advanced open water packages. You will get to dive some world class dive destinations around the Sangalaki marine park, so even more reason to stay a bit longer! Check out our great AOWC packages in the price section.

On day two, you’ll typically head out in the morning for the Deep dive, followed by the remaining dives that you have chosen. Depending on the dives you choose, and if you have any more self-study to complete, you may sign up for an extra optional fun dive! The Advanced Course schedule may differ a little from course to course, depending on which dives you have chosen. Your instructor will advise you which dives will be completed on which day.

Here's a sample itinerary:
Day 1: Peak performance buoyancy dive, underwater navigation dive, lunch break, self-study, night dive.
Day 2: Deep dive, fish ID dive, lunch break, knowledge review session with your instructor, extra fun dive (optional if time allows).

Deep: Learn how to properly plan deep dives and what additional safety precautions to take. You'll examine how your air consumption and NDL (no-decompression limits) change as you dive deeper. This dive will take down to a maximum depth of 30m!

Navigation: Have you ever wondered how your dive guides always seem to know exactly where they are? This dive will help you improve your natural navigation skills and teach you how to use an underwater compass accurately.

Peak Performance Buoyancy: Master buoyancy control, and improve your trim and positioning in the water. Learn how to move more efficiently with advanced kicking techniques. Improve your air-consumption, so your dives last longer!

Fish ID: During this dive you’ll learn how to identify different fish, based on the way they look, their behavior and their habitat. More than 3000 species of fish have been identified in this area, making it the perfect place to work on your fish ID skills!

Drift: Drift diving can be both relaxing and exciting - if done correctly. Many of the world's best dive sites involve diving in currents, which can be challenging for new divers. During this dive you’ll learn different drifting techniques, and how to move efficiently in a current.

Night: The night dives around here are simply too incredible to miss! Diving at night opens up new possibilities, and you’ll encounter different marine life which are usually hidden away during day time!

Search & recovery: During this dive you’ll learn how to locate missing objects underwater, and how to bring them safely back to dry land. You’ll practise different search patterns, knots and how to use a lift bag to recover heavy objects.

Naturalist: A good option if you are interested to know more about what you see underwater. Learn how to distinguish between the many different vertebrates, invertebrates and plants that can be found in this area.