PADI Diving Course in Phuket

PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Certification Course

The PADI Advanced Open Water course advances your introduction to our amazing and breathtaking underwater world. At the same time teaching you extremely valuable divers skills like underwater navigation, wreck diving, advanced buoyancy control and of course going deeper than 18 Meters. Taking the PADI Advanced Open Water will enable you to make the most of your scuba diving in Phuket.

The AOW course is designed to help you understand advanced principles of scuba diving, further improve and hone diving/diver skills in a safe & controlled environment supervised by industry professionals and most importantly of all, having an extreme amount of fun while learning.

The Advanced Open Water Diver course has some basic pre-requisites listed below but essentially any certified diver of almost any age can sign up for the PADI Advanced Open Water course to improve their diver skills & diving knowledge.

What You Get Out Of It

Once you have completed the PADI Advanced Open Water scuba diver course. You will be certified to dive to 30m with a buddy. This means no more 18 Meter limit as you are now a certified advanced scuba diver. Also provided you are not alone, you can dive with your buddy down to 30 meters. And see some of the more interesting wrecks and bottom-dwelling creatures that live at those depths!

You also get a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver license delivered to your mailing address. Which you can carry with you on your travels so dive shops and instructors can instantly recognize your level of training. You’ll also be kept on the PADI diver database so even if you lose your card there will always be a way to prove that you are a certified AOW diver to anyone that needs it.

If you are diving with Local Dive Thailand you’ll also gain the best training Thailand has to offer, from our highly qualified and super dedicated dive instructors! You’ll also be ready for the next step – the PADI Rescue Diver course, be prepared to help yourself and those around you.

You must complete

• Deep Diver
• Underwater Navigator

We also offer (pick 3)

• Wreck Diver
• Peak Performance Buoyancy
• AWARE – Coral Reef Conservation
• AWARE – Fish Identification
• Boat Diver
• Search and Recovery Diver
• Underwater Naturalist
• Drift Diver
• Multilevel Diver
• Digital Underwater Photographer ^{^}

^ Requires you to have your own suitable underwater camera, or to rent one for the day from us.

Download brochure: Local Dive