Extend Your Limits as an Advanced Open Water Diver
As a PADI Open Water diver, you know you already love scuba diving but what is your next step?
Learn to Become a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
The PADI Advanced Open Water is the most practical and fun course in the PADI curriculum. In just two days you will discover new experiences, extend your limits and learn new skills that will make you a more confident and accomplished diver, whilst your dives will become even more exciting!
What are you waiting for? Extend your stay in our accommodation for one night and complete the PADI Advanced Open water course in 24 hours.
Included in Advanced Open Water Course
- PADI Advanced Open Water E-learning manual
- Dive Insurance
- Small Groups (4:1)
- 2-day schedule
- PADI Advanced Open Water Diver certification.
- Full set of Aqualung rental equipment including a Dive Computer for your diving course
- Official Isla Tortuga T-shirt
- Best Vibes!
What is the PADI Advanced Open Water course?
The PADI Advanced Open Water course consists of five training dives, building on the skills and knowledge you learned during your Open Water course whilst developing a new set of diving skills.
Of those five adventure dives, there are two that are mandatory – the deep dive and the underwater navigation dive.
- Deep Diving: Discover the mysteries of the depths and extend your dive limits down to a maximum depth of 30 meters with the PADI Deep Adventure Dive.
You will learn deep diving safety protocols, and how deeper depth affects your body and hopefully you will experience nitrogen narcosis.
Extending your personal depth limit to 30 meters will open the doors of some of the most famous diving sites in the world including local world class dive sites such as Chumphon Pinnacle & Sail Rock.
- Underwater Navigation: Tune up those underwater instincts and become a true explorer. Master the art of navigation, the Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive will give you all the tools you need to confidently explore the underwater world.
You will learn how to use natural references to navigate underwater and by the end of this dive we will have you navigating straight line reciprocal headings and square patterns using an underwater compass.
You then have three elective dives that you can choose from a range of options allowing you to follow your interests with our specialty courses.
Popular Elective Dives on the PADI Advanced course
- Peak Performance Buoyancy: Experience weightlessness like never before. Learn how to perfect control of your buoyancy, gliding effortlessly through the water, and observe the exciting marine world without disturbing its delicate ecosystems.
Improve your air consumption, expend less energy and look a lot cooler underwater!
- Wreck Diving: Explore the mysterious history of sunken shipwrecks and submerged treasures, you will become a modern archaeologist and you will be part of the incredible legends that these time capsules keep surrounded by all the marine life that they attract.
Koh Tao boasts three shipwrecks to explore providing even the most enthusiastic wreck diver with hours and hours of fun underwater!
- Night Diving: There’s nothing quite like going on an night dive adventure. Witness marine life transforms under the moonlight, revealing creatures and behaviors hidden during the day and the many more creatures that come out to play.
Learn about nocturnal life, how to use a torch and communicate underwater at night and if you’re lucky you may even experience the underwater phenomenon that is bioluminescent plankton
- Fish Identification: Take on the role of a marine biologist for a while and discover the secrets of the underwater inhabitants. Learn to identify different fish species and learn about their behaviors and the roles they play in the underwater ecosystem.
What are Prerequisites for PADI Advanced Open Water?
To embark on this exciting adventure and further improve your skills as a scuba diver, there are a series of requirements:
- Open Water Certification: Obviously, you need to be an Open Water diver and have dived relatively recently. If you need a refresh on your diving skills, we can do that too!
- Be in good health. As for each course, you will have to fill out a medical form to make sure that there are no contraindications with diving.
- Minimum age: You have to be at least 15 years old to be eligible to be an Advanced diver, even if you were already 12 years you can do your Junior Advanced Open Water.
What is the Advanced Open Water course schedule?
The PADI Advanced Open Water course offers the most flexibility in terms of options and schedules however the most popular schedule is as follows:
It’s always a good idea to obtain the PADI Advanced Open Water course e-learning ahead of time. The e-learning for this course is very straightforward with each dive having a corresponding knowledge review, with each review taking 30-45 minutes to complete.
Day 1:
- Meet with your Instructor at 11am to review the e-learning
- Diving @ 12:45 with 2 training dives – usually Peak Performance Buoyancy & Underwater Navigation returning at approximately 17.00
- On Day 1 or 2 we schedule the most popular elective dive, the Night Dive with the boat departing around 18.00-18.15
Day 2
- Meet with your Instructor at 7am
- Diving @ 07:45 with 2 training dives – usually the Deep & Wreck Dive
In just 24 hours you will have completed the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course and we will issue you with the prestigious PADI Advanced Open Water Diver certification
This will Advanced Open Water Diver allow you to dive anywhere in the world up to 30 meters deep!
What are the Advantages of taking the PADI Advanced Open Water course?
With your PADI Advanced Open Water certification you will be qualified to dive to depths of 30 meters and you will learn a wide variety of new skills that will make you a better diver.
This will allow you to visit the most famous dive sites in the world, in the case of our Gulf of Thailand, dive sites such as Chumphon pinnacle, Southwest pinnacles or Sail Rock.
Not only that, but with better buoyancy and improved navigation, your dives will be more comfortable, they will last longer, and be more fun and magical.
Completing your PADI Advanced Open Water is a great way to improve your diving skills and experience new types of scuba diving.
And the best part, it’s incredibly fun!
If you are looking for new challenges, or just want to have more fun during your dives, the PADI Advanced Open Water is for you.
Why Choose PADI Diving?
PADI dive centers must adhere to the highest training standards and customer service levels in the dive industry.
PADI is the most recognized agency worldwide when it comes to recreational diving courses, with hundreds of agencies around the world, PADI is established in more countries than any other agency.
In short, if you go to a small island in the middle of the ocean such as Koh Tao and there is a diving school, it is most likely PADI.
PADI is the only training agency whose curriculum is written by educational authors, using tried, tested and trusted learning philosophies adapted for scuba diving.
The PADI system is performance based, not time based.
What this means is you will have to earn your certification, and you can’t buy it!
Please keep in mind that we are going to ask you to do more than other dive centers and agencies. On the bright side this will mean you will receive a higher quality training course and will be much better prepared as a certified scuba diver.
PADI is the only agency that conducts customer satisfaction surveys to ensure that its professionals are meeting the highest standards of education and safety, while other agencies only ask instructors or schools to manage their own standards.
Why take Advanced Open Water with Isla Tortuga Divers?
- We limit our classes size to maximum 4 students per diving instructor providing you with a personalized and focused training course.
- Our dive boat MV Attawat is comfortable and spacious and as we own our own boat it gives us the flexibility to choose the dive sites that best suit you
- The knowledge development portion of the course can be completed using PADI eLearning program. What this means is once you have completed the registration process and paid your deposit you can get started straight away!
- Completing PADI’s e-learning ahead of time means no classroom on your Advanced Open Water course!
- We are a PADI 5 Star Instructor Development Center and as such all our instructors and PADI Divemasters are trained in house by our PADI Course Directors. This allows us to vet every staff member to ensure they are teaching to the very highest standards, providing you with a quality and safe experience ….and of course lots of fun!
- We provide you with a dive computer for all your open water training dives at no extra cost!
- We only teach ‘diving with dive computers ’on all our PADI diving courses in line with latest technology and educational principles.
- As an Aqualung Partner Center all our diving equipment passes the most rigorous quality and reliability tests.
Last, but without a doubt the most important reason for you to contact us to complete your PADI Advanced Open Water course with Isla Tortuga, is we guarantee you will learn to dive with a smile and that you will be left wanting more!
