Become an advanced diver with the PADI Advanced Open Water Course in Phuket
Extend your diving limit to 30m in just 2 days!
With a navigation dive, a deep dive and 3 other adventure dives of your choice, we’ll teach you how to become a better diver and earn your PADI Advanced Open Water in Phuket.
Beach and boat diving options with 5 or 6 dives available to suit your budget and enjoy more of Phuket’s amazing marine life.
What is the PADI Advanced Open Water Course?
The PADI Advanced Open Water Course can be done straight after obtaining an Open Water Diver license from PADI or another recognized scuba diver training agency and is aimed at improving scuba diving skills, introducing new underwater activities and environments, and accelerating a divers experience through a minimum of 5 training dives called PADI Adventure Dives. (See our Open Water & Advanced special!)
The 5 training dives must include Underwater Navigation and a Deep dive, and 3 other PADI Adventure dives. There’s a little studying to do, either with a paper manual or e-Learning, with multiple-choice knowledge reviews for each of the 5 dives and a short intro ‘Thinking Like A Diver’. The studying can be completed after doing the dives, though it’s better done before for a better foundation of understanding.
Here’s a list of popular Adventure Dives that you can do with Patong Dive Center’s instructors:
Generally speaking, there’s no pool training required to do your PADI Advanced Open Water. However, because the Adventure Dives are the 1st dive from PADI Specialties, an extra day of pool / shallow water training may be required for elective Adventure Dives such as from the PADI Sidemount Course.
Please note: For special Adventure Dives the instructors must be certified to teach the corresponding specialty and for some there may be an extra charge for additional training and materials such as required PADI Specialty manuals.
Special Advanced Open Water Dives
Who is the PADI Advanced Open Water Course for?
Anyone with or in the process of doing an Open Water Diver certification, from PADI or another similarly recognized diver training organization, can sign up for the PADI Advanced Open Water Course, however there’s a minimum age limit of 12 years. For ages 12 to 14 years the certification is referred to as Junior Advanced Open Water, for which there’s a depth limit of 21m.
It may be that you want to try a new underwater activity or visit dive sites that weren’t possible as an Open Water Diver. There are many reasons why you may want to become an advanced diver:
The good news is that the dive theory is simple and the course is more aimed at in-water skill and activity development, with most of the usual Adventure Dives having easily achievable goals. So take that next step and have a great couple of days diving!
Awesome Advanced Diving in Phuket!
How much does the PADI Advanced Open Water Course cost in Phuket and what’s included?
All of our PADI Advanced Open Water Course prices include:
Boat dive Option:
Breakfast, lunch, snacks, water, soft drinks & beverages.
Speedboat Option:
Light lunch, fresh fruit, water & soft drinks.
Beach Dive Option:
Drinking water.
Our most popular Advanced Open Water Course option, on a nice large boat, involves 2 full day trips and so include breakfast, lunch etc. A speedboat option may be available at request, therefore you can enjoy breakfast in your hotel due to a later start & earlier finish on those days. Beach diving days are similarly short and you can either bring snacks or purchase lunch at the beach-side restaurant.
Advanced Open Water Prices
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Day 1: 2 Adventure Dives from the beach (surcharge for night dive)
Day 2: 3 Adventure Dives on full day trip by big tour boat
Day 1: 3 Adventure Dives on full day trip OR 2 Speedboat dives
Day 2: 3 Adventure Dives on full day trip by big tour boat
Why do your PADI Advanced Open Water in Phuket with Patong Dive Center?
We’ve earned our PADI 5 Star rating by providing top quality diver training, supported by our choice of excellent dive services at Phuket’s splendid variety of dive sites. Add to that the numerous Adventure Dives that our experienced PADI Instructors can teach and doing your Advanced Open Water with us will surely be special!
We also provide a free refresher at the start of our Advanced Open Water courses, for any divers who’ve not been diving for a while. Doing your Advanced Diver course is a great way to get back into diving and get a new certification card at the same time!
What PADI courses to do after becoming an advanced diver?
PADI Adventure dives can usually be counted towards the corresponding PADI Specialty certification. So why not add on a PADI Specialty course or two and with a few extra dives you can take advantage of diving in Phuket, further extending your limits and experience!
Or you can sign up for our PADI Rescue Diver Course (we do a package with EFR Primary & Secondary Care Course too, which is required for the Rescue Diver certification). This certification is necessary if you are thinking about becoming a PADI Pro or a PADI Master Scuba Diver.
The PADI Master Scuba Diver requires you to be a Rescue Diver, with at least 50 logged dives and have 5 PADI Specialties. We’d recommend getting specialty certifications first – they are a lot of fun and you’ll log dives and gain invaluable experience in the process.
Here are a bunch of PADI Specialty Courses that we recommend:
Add on these PADI Specialties!
(Click the ‘Specialty’ button for more info.)
Things you should know about doing your PADI diving license in Phuket
Here are a few helpful reminders of things you should know about diving and doing the Advanced Open Water course:
Please be kind to the reefs! Enjoy your diving but please also take care to protect the environment. Only use reef friendly sunscreen, don’t throw rubbish into the sea and please don’t feed or touch marine life.
Although being able to dive deeper and enjoy more of Phuket’s dives sites is enough reason in itself to become an Advanced diver, we recommend getting more out of your Advance Open Water Course by doing Adventure dives that of real interest to you or that can be counted towards more useful PADI Specialties.