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 would typically be chosen together with your instructor, and frequently have new experiences as leisure as the goal, we try to ready volunteers for the scientific work coming later. As such we conduct the peak performance buoyancy dive. In it, through various activities and games, you practise your buoyancy, and most people – even experienced divers find they get a lot from it. We also usually do a dive dedicated to dive safety and rescue, where you will go through certain exercises that also forms part of the PADI Rescue Diver Course. The third dive is one in which we focus on safely deploying a surface marker buoy from underwater.

If you’re not doing the Advanced Open Water course through our volunteer program, but are a member of a local government unit or partner organization for example, your additional dives would be agreed based on your particular needs.