PADI Advanced Open Water Course
Dive deeper, exploring shipwrecks, diving at night, taking photos! Therese are just some of the things you can experience during your PADI Advanced course! This course can be taken after completing your PADI open water certification. It’s called the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver because it advances your diving knowledge and skills.
Read the 5 chapters of the adventure dives that you would like to do. Watch the video and complete the knowledge reviews for those dives. There are no quizzes or exams for the advanced course!
The Advanced course is all about becoming a better diver and gaining more experience. You will complete 5 adventure dives. Deep and navigation are compulsory. After that you can choose what you would like to do!
Interested in photography, wrecks, identifying fish? Want to learn more skills, practice sending up a delayed surface marker buoy or finding objects underwater. The choice is yours!
You can dive to 30 metres with a buddy. This certification is valid worldwide and for life.
Key Information About the PADI Advanced Course
Become a better diver by furthering your diving education and gaining more experience under the ocean with the PADI Advanced open water course!
The PADI Advanced open water course is an exciting way to get a taste of some of the speciality courses. Preparing you for a range of different diving experiences and will qualify you to dive to 30 metres anywhere in the world. Visit some of the best dive sites in Puerto Del Carmen under the expert guidance of your PADI instructor.
The PADI Advanced course is 5 adventure dives. These are fun dives with a few skills throughout the dives. The deep and navigation dives are the 2 compulsory dives.
You can choose your 3 other dives along with your PADI instructor. Some of the dives you may enjoy are: Digital Underwater Photography, Fish Identification, Night Diving, Peak Performance Buoyancy, Search and Recovery, Wreck Diving, Delayed Surface Marker Buoy and Dive Against Debris.
Duration:
2-3 days.
If you complete the theory online before you arrive in Lanzarote you can complete the course in as quick as 2 days.
Minimum Age:
From 12 years old you can complete the PADI Advanced Open Water Course
Medical:
Good general health, if you can answer no to all the points on this medical that’s perfect! If you can answer a yes on page 1 you will need to complete page 2 and 3 as well.
Group Size:
Learn to dive in small groups so that you can develop excellent diving skills and maximising your fun in a friendly and safe environment.
Select your PADI Advanced Course Packages
Bronze
- PADI Digital Manual
- Manta Diving T-shirt
- 5 Adventure Dives
- Free Fun Dive
- Equipment Hire
- PADI Enriched Air Speciality (No dives)
- Photos of you underwater
- PADI Photography Speciality Course (2 dives)
- Aqualung i200c Dive Computer
Gold
- PADI Digital Manual
- Manta Diving T-shirt
- 5 Adventure Dives
- Free Fun Dive
- Equipment Hire
- PADI Enriched Air Speciality (No dives)
- Photos of you underwater
- PADI Photography Speciality Course (2 dives)
- Aqualung i200c Dive Computer
Frequently Asked Questions about the PADI Advanced Open Water Course
Yes, each of our packages includes the PADI digital manual so you can complete all the theory online so you can get started before you arrive in Lanzarote.
The Silver and Gold packages include extra courses such as the PADI Enriched Air Course and PADI Digital Underwater Photography Course. For these courses we will give you the manuals on your first day.
The adventure dives are fun! We will complete some exercises during them, for example on the deep dive we will look at the effects of pressure and colour at depth. The navigation we will build on your skills that you learnt during your open water course, increasing your confidence and teaching you new navigational skills.
Included in all of our PADI Advanced course packages are:
- PADI Digital Manual
- Full equipment hire
- 5 Adventure Dives plus 1 free fun dive!
- Transfers to and from your hotel within Puerto Del Carmen, Playa Blanca, Costa Teguise, Arrecife and Puerto Calero
- Full instruction and certified PADI instructor
- PADI Digital Certification Card
- Small class sizes
You just need to bring:
- Swimwear
- Towel
- Change of clothes for afterwards
- PADI E-record showing the theory has been completed
- PADI Open Water certification card or equivalent
- Diving Insurance that covers you for personal accident and search and recovery.
Yes, you need to show us on your first day your insurance certificate and policy wording showing that scuba diving is covered to at least 30 metres. It needs to show cover for personal accident and search & recovery. If you don’t have sufficient insurance we can arrange it with DAN Europe for:
6€ per day
11€ for 2 days
15€ per week
35€ per year
You can complete the PADI Advanced course in as quick as 2 days! Diving 3 dives on each day. Alternatively you can spread it out over 3 days and do 2 dives a day.
For 1 dive you must wait at least 12 hours before flying. For multiple dives you must wait at least 18 hours before flying.
Reviews of the PADI Advanced Open Water Course
Will come back again! What a pleasure to write this review! Me and my husband just came back from a diving holiday in Lanzarote. After reading positive reviews on this site, we decided to book our PADI advanced courses with these guys. We felt welcomed from very beginning, everything was explained to us so there wasn't a moment when we wouldn't know what was happening. All equipment was in great condition. We have done 6 dives, completed our certifications and left Lanzarote with loads of new skills. As an awesome bonus, Rachel and Ariel have been taking photos on all dives we had together and what a great surprise when we got home and seen them! They are amazing! Some of the thing we saw: angel sharks, seahorse, trumpet fish, barracuda, trigger fish, grouper fish and many others. Thank you
Completed my open water course in September and then returned in October to complete my PADI advanced open water. All members of the team at the Manta dive centre were very helpful and friendly. They are very easy going and tailored the advanced course round the days of my holiday. Having little experience diving and attending the centre on my own everyone was very welcoming and answers all questions without any hassle. Additionally my instructor was excellent very relaxed and clearly enjoys his job. He was clear and concise with his instructions as well as having a good bit of banter at the same time. I really enjoyed both PADI courses and would highly recommend completing diving courses here or booking in for a dive if visiting the area. I will hopefully get a chance to return in the future.
