Advanced Open Water Phi Phi

The Advanced Open Water Diving course helps you increase your confidence and build your scuba skills so you can become a better diver and be 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 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. Our courses are conducted by experienced and certified PADI and SSI instructors with a ratio of 4 divers to one instructor. With custom built boats, excellent dive equipment and professional service your course will be both enjoyable and memorable.

Advanced Open Water Phi Phi Dives

The Advanced Open Water course is comprised of 5 dives, of which the first two are mandatory

• Deep Diving
• Underwater Navigation

And 3 adventures dives of your choice;

• Peak Buoyancy Performance
• Enriched Air Nitrox (EAN)
• Fish Identification
• Boat Diver
• Night Diver
• Underwater Naturalist
• Digital Underwater Photography
• Search and Recovery
• Wreck Diving

Advanced Open Water Phi Phi Course Schedule

The Advanced Open Water Phi Phi course normally runs over Two or Three Days depending on your choice of Adventure dives and can be adjusted to fit with your travel plans. Schedule example;

• Day 1: Two Adventure Dives in the morning or afternoon including the Underwater Navigation dive then a Night Dive in the evening
• Day 2: Two Adventure Dives in the morning or afternoon including the Deep dive

Night and wreck dives are available every day.

The schedule is flexible the dives can be swapped between the morning and afternoon. If you arrive on Phi Phi before 1pm you can start the dives that afternoon. At the end of the course you will be issued with a digital open water card to confirm your new Advanced status.

Requirements

• Open Water Certified or higher.
• You need to be Medically fit to dive. This means that you must be in reasonable good health, a medical questionnaire is completed at the start of the course and divers with a pre-existing medical condition will need a doctors approval before diving. The medical questionnaire can be downloaded from here. If you need to answer ‘Yes’ to any of the questions in the medical please check with a doctor and have the second page of the medical signed.
• Divers will need to stay a minimum of one night but preferably two nights on Phi Phi island, in the Tonsai Bay area.

Whats Included

• Equipment Rental
• Insurance when diving
• Course materials
• Certification
• Log book
• Tea, Coffee, fruit, water and lunch while diving.
• 5 Open Water dives over two days from our dive boats
• Instruction from a fully certified and renewed instructor

Other Information

• All dive trips in the Phi Phi National Park are subject to a first day entry and diving charge of 400 baht with 2nd and 3rd days incurring a charge of 200 baht. These payments are in addition to the diving prices and the payments are made directly to the national park rangers not ourselves.
• Please retain you national park tickets to show on subsequent days of diving.
• For the PADI course please add 900 Baht to the price.
• For Digital Underwater Photography, if you do not have your own underwater camera you can rent one for 1,000 Baht
• You will need a break of 18-24 hours between the end of your last dive and flying(even short flights) so please take this into consideration when making your travel plans.
• When choosing where to stay we suggest that you stay in the Tonsai Bay Area or Long Beach – see map
• The equipment includes a choice of 3mm short or long wetsuit, 5mm boots to prevent blisters on your toes, Mares super channel fins, mask (regular, large face, small face and prescription masks are available), scuba diving regulator with a Suunto dive computer and a BCD. We have tea, coffee, drinking water, a selection of fruit and a lunch of your choice to keep you refreshed and energised. There are also 15 litre tanks if you use a lot of air at no extra charge.

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