PADI Advanced Open Water Diver

The PADI Advanced Open Water course consists of five adventure dives, each focused on a special activity, which expand your knowledge and skills in different aspects of the recreational diving experience.

Two dives are compulsory - a deep dive to a maximum depth of 30 metres, and a navigation dive improving on the underwater navigation skills you learned in your Open Water course. For the three remaining dives you can choose from any of the following special activity adventure dives:

  • Night Dive
  • Underwater Naturalist Dive
  • Enriched Air Nitrox Dive
  • Peak Performance Buoyancy DIve
  • Underwater Photography Dive (Digital)
  • Diver Propulsion Vehicle Dive
  • Search and Recovery DIve
  • Multi-Level and Computer Dive

Note: The Underwater Photography (Digital) course requires the use of a digital camera with underwater housing. If you don't have one, you can hire it for 1,500THB per day when you are here. Similarly, the Diver Propulsion Vehicles course requires that you hire DPVs for 3,000THB per day. In both cases, one day's hire is sufficient for the purpose of these courses.

The most commonly selected electives are: Underwater Naturalist Dive, Peak Performance Buoyancy, and Night Dive.

For more information on these special activity dives and the corresponding Specialty courses, check out the Specialty Diver courses page.

Once you have completed the course you will be certified as a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver allowing you to dive to a maximum depth of 30 metres anywhere in the world, but you may wish to become certified in any of the adventure specialties listed above, including the Deep Diver specialty giving you a depth range of 40 metres. You can go on to do a specialty course and credit the dives towards the corresponding specialty diver course.


Schedule:

This course is normally taught over two days, with three dives on day one and two dives on day two, but you can choose to spread the course over a longer period if you prefer - just let us know when you book.


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Where to from here?

If you wish to continue your training, we recommend doing some fun dives or Specialty Diver courses in your favourite areas before going on to become a Rescue Diver. PADI recommends training to Rescue Diver as a standard for recreational diving, as you become a much safer and more confident diver yourself, and your dive buddy knows they can rely on meaningful assistance from you in the event of an emergency. We agree wholeheartedly. It's also the next step on the ladder towards becoming a Dive Professional.


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A typical Mae Haad sunset. Mae Haad is Koh Tao's main village where Master Divers is situated, and this is part of the scene from our sunset view bar.
Sairee beach, about ten minutes walk from Mae Haad, is the largest beach on Koh Tao. Despite the tranquility of this beach during the day, at night it becomes Koh Tao's party capital. The beach is lined with bars and clubs which keep bumping till the early hours.
Accommodation options on Koh Tao vary from basic but clean rooms through to luxury suites. Most common is the beach bungalow: usually equipped only with a fan and a cold shower (but sometimes television, DVD player, fridge, hotshower and air conditioning), they are set right on the beach or in beautiful gardens with a balcony to chill out and soak up the vibe.
Nudibranch means 'external lung'. These critters are found in various shapes, sizes and disguises all around Koh Tao, but without the benefit of your Divemaster's local knowledge, you'll probably never find one.
Whale Sharks are what we're famous for. Koh Tao is a normal stopping off point for Whale Sharks on their annual trips around the world so they're relatively common here. They're completely harmless plankton feeders and the ones we see here range in size from 2.5 metres to 7 metres long.
Scorpion fish are very difficult to spot - their excellent camouflage helps them blend almost perfectly with the reef on which they resolutely sit.

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