The PADI Advanced Open Water course allows you to dive to 30 meters together with a buddy in conditions similar to those under which you were trained.

Structurally the course consists of five dives, two of which always have to be a deep dive and a navigation dive. In recreational dive centres, the remaining three dives are electives and customers have a wide range of different options. At MCP we try to ready volunteers for the scientific work coming later, and so we make the choices based on our research needs. We always conduct the peak performance buoyancy dive. In it, through various activities and games, you practise buoyancy control, and most people – even experienced divers find they gain a lot from the practise with our instructors.

We are experts at tailoring the skill challenge to you, so you come away having learnt something, no matter your background.

The forth dive is usually do a dive dedicated to dive safety and rescue, where you will go through certain exercises that actually also forms part of the PADI Rescue Diver Course. If you are doing that later, the experiences you have gotten at this point will help you excel later.  The final dive on the PADI Advanced Course is one in which we focus on safely deploying a surface marker buoy from underwater, which is going to be invaluable later in the program when you want to tell surface boat traffic that you intend to surface, and to keep a safe distance.