Course overview

Build on your certification with the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver in North Malé Atoll, where the atoll's big-fish channels and drift sites are a perfect classroom for advancing your skills. Across five adventure dives you log a deep dive and an underwater-navigation dive plus three electives, finishing qualified to dive to 30 metres and ready for drift and channel diving with reef sharks and rays.

What you’ll learn

• Plan and execute dives to 30 metres safely
• Navigate underwater using a compass and natural references
• Manage buoyancy and trim in mild to moderate current
• Apply skills from elective specialties such as drift, fish ID or night diving
• Monitor gas, depth and no-stop time on deeper profiles
• Build confidence for the atoll's channel and drift sites

Prerequisites

• PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver or a qualifying certification from another agency
• Minimum age 12 (12-14 certify as Junior, with depth limits)
• Completion of a diver medical questionnaire; physician sign-off if required

What's included · What's not

Probability of sightings · month-by-month

What you're likely to see each month, based on historic operator logs.

Day-by-day itinerary

1. Day1
   Pre-dive theory

   Complete the knowledge development and dive-planning material before the in-water sessions, online or at the dive base.
2. Day2
   Deep & navigation dives

   Complete the required deep dive to around 30 metres and an underwater-navigation dive on a channel or reef site.
3. Day3
   Elective adventure dives

   Log three electives such as drift, fish identification or peak performance buoyancy among the atoll's reefs, then certify.

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