Advanced Open Water Course
Exploration, Excitement, Experiences. They’re what the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course is all about. And no, you don’t have to be “advanced” to take it – it’s designed so you can go straight into it after the PADI Open Water Diver course.
The Advanced Open Water Diver course helps you increase your confidence and build your scuba skills so you can become more comfortable in the water. This is a great way to get more dives under your belt while continuing to learn under the supervision of your PADI Instructor. This course builds on what you’ve learned and develops new capabilities by introducing you to new activities and new ways to have fun scuba diving.
This courses consists of 5 dives and is run over two days. One day is done at Lake Rotoma where we will complete 3 dives and you will do another day diving off the boat and do two dives. Once you have booked your Lake Day you will recieve an email with a code to book the boat dives. You can complete the boat dives on any of our local charters . You can do the Lake and boat days in any order. The price of the Advanced open water course includes Lake day, boat charter , hire gear and elearning.
Please review our risk disclosure document and medical form before booking on this course. If you answer yes to any of the questions on the medical form you may need your doctor to sign this form before particpating in this course.
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The PADI Advanced Open Water course is made up of 2 sections
- Online eLearning – We will issue you with an eLearning key. This will allow you to complete the theory portion of the course online in your own time.
- Practical sessions– the Advanced Open Water course consists of 5 adventure dives where you learn skills for different types of dives.
We do three dives at Lake Rotoma- Navigation, Deep (between 18 and 30 metres)and Peak Performance Bouyancy
The other two dives (Boat and Fish ID) are completed out on our boat - Ruku Moana. Once you select your lake days you will be asked to select your boat days - you can do boat or lake days in any order.
For your practical session we provide all the diving equipment you require, with the exception of a mask and snorkel (as this is a personal fit item). Please ensure you bring the following with you:
- Mask and Snorkel
- Tog’s and Towel
- Warm clothes for after diving
- Lunch (especially on lake and boat days as there are no shops close by these sites)
- Something to drink
Please answer the medical questions honestly for your safety and ours. If all answers are No you are fit to dive, if you answer Yes to any of the questions, you will need sign off by a Doctor.
Purchasing this course online constitutes confirmation you have completed the medical form and are fit to dive.
Cancellation / Rescheduling
Once your course is booked no refund will be issued if you decide to pull out prior to the course start date or after the course has started for any reason.
Your course can be rescheduled providing you give us a least 2 weeks notice . Within 2 weeks or or after the course has started $200 rebooking fee will apply.
This includes if you have to withdraw or change dates for any reason, including illness, injury, not passing medical requirements, equalizing problems, failure to complete the elearning or swim test.
This reschedule fee is required to be paid prior to confirming the new course dates.
We reserve the right to reschedule the course in the rare event that minimum course numbers are not met. In this event reschedule fee will be waived or a full refund will be offered.
