Course overview

Build on your Open Water certification and dive deeper, with more skills, through the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course in Port Blair. Across five adventure dives in the Andaman Sea, including mandatory deep and navigation dives, you extend your depth limit to 30 metres and sample specialties like wreck, drift and night diving at sites such as Chidiyatapu. The certification opens up the deeper and more varied diving the Andamans are known for.

What you’ll learn

• Plan and conduct dives to 30 metres
• Navigate underwater using compass and natural references
• Sample specialty diving such as wreck, drift or night
• Improve buoyancy, trim and air management
• Apply deeper-dive planning and gas awareness
• Build confidence diving a wider range of sites

Prerequisites

• Minimum age 12 (Junior Advanced Open Water 12-14)
• PADI Open Water Diver or qualifying certification
• Basic comfort and skills from entry-level training
• Diver medical clearance signed by a physician

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
   Deep & navigation dives

   Complete the mandatory Deep and Underwater Navigation adventure dives in the Andaman Sea, extending your depth and orientation skills.
2. Day2
   Elective adventures

   Choose three elective adventure dives such as wreck, drift or night at sites near Chidiyatapu and certify as an Advanced Open Water Diver.

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