Advanced Open Water Course

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Advance your diving skills with this course that will introduce you to a wide range of adventure dives.

You will be sent a link to your eLearning prior to the course.

Over two consecutive days you complete five open-water dives — two required dives (deep and navigation) plus three elective dives chosen by you and your instructor. The course run from our boats at the Poor Knights Islands.

Required Dives

• Deep - Dive to a maximum of 30 metres and find out what nitrogen narcosis is - will you experience it?
• Navigation - Fine-tune and improve navigation skills with compass use and natural navigation tips.

Most popular elective dives

• Peak Performance Buoyancy - Perfect your hover and your control of buoyancy, so you can keep yourself safe as well as the natural environment
• Naturalist - Learn to identify different marine plant and animal species.
• Fish ID - Know how to identify features of different fish species and how to tell them apart
• Search and Recovery - Learn search patterns and techniques to aid in the recovery of that lost mask overboard!
• Photography - Learn about care and preparation, as well as tips on lighting, positioning, backscatter, and composure.
• Boat - Bow, stern, aft, and port, boat diving is very different to shore diving. This elective gives you a heads-up on the nautical way of diving.