Course overview

Become a fully certified diver with the PADI Open Water Diver course in Ambon on the Banda Sea, training in one of the world's richest critter and macro environments. Across confined-water sessions and four open-water dives in calm Ambon Bay you earn a globally recognised certification to dive to 18 metres anywhere in the world.

What you’ll learn

• Assemble, use, maintain and store scuba equipment
• Master core safety skills including mask clearing, regulator recovery and air-sharing
• Achieve neutral buoyancy and efficient finning
• Plan dives with tables or a dive computer within no-decompression limits
• Respond to common problems and assist a buddy
• Dive independently with a certified buddy to 18 metres

Prerequisites

• No prior experience or swimming certification required
• Minimum age 10 (Junior Open Water Diver)
• Basic swimming ability and water comfort (a swim and float assessment is part of the course)
• Complete a medical questionnaire (physician sign-off if any condition applies)

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
   Theory & confined water

   Work through the knowledge sections and begin confined-water skill practice in calm shallows.
2. Day2
   Open-water dives 1-2

   Apply your skills on the first two open-water dives over a gentle Ambon Bay reef.
3. Day3
   Open-water dives 3-4 & certification

   Complete the final two open-water dives to a maximum of 18 metres, finish the exam and certify.

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