Experience the real adventure of Scuba Diving with the PADI Junior Advanced Open Water Diver Course. You will expand on your diving knowledge and skills by trying some of diving’s most rewarding and exciting speciality areas such as the 2 core dives in Deep diving and Navigation diving.
With your instructor you then pick 3 additional elective dive areas that interest you, such as Wreck diving, Peak Performance Buoyancy diving, Dry Suit diving and Boat diving.
You will upgrade your depth rating with the PADI Junior Advanced Open Water Diver course to 21 metres and gain access to some of the world’s best wrecks and reefs.
Course prerequisite
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PADI Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization)
- Be medically fit to dive, please carefully read the medical declaration below
- Pre-study course manual and fill in review sections before course start
Minimum age
12 years (12 to 14 year olds will certified as PADI Junior Advanced Open Water)
How is the course run?
- 2 days on a weekend or mid-week
- If you have only 1 day, check out the PADI Adventure Diver Course [link]
What can I do after this course?
- PADI Rescue Diver [link]
- A wide range of PADI Specialties [link]
What it will cost and what you'll need
Course Fee: £215.00
What’s included?
- Adventures in Diving Manual
- Life time certification
- Use of all the expensive scuba equipment (suit, weights, cylinders, BCD and regulator)
Sold separately: course £189 and manual £26
What’s not included?
- Transport to dive sites
- Dive site fees, typically start at £15 per day at Vobster Quay, Frome
- Basic equipment for open water dives: mask, snorkel, fins and boots (gloves from October to May)
Specialty upgrades
For 1 extra dive during the PADI Advanced Open Water Course you can upgrade elective dives Peak Performance Buoyancy or Dry Suit to the full specialty course at a reduced rate.
What it will cost and what you'll need
Upgrade fee £79
What’s included?
Courses normally priced at £109, manuals £16
Continuing the adventure is one of the best moves you can make.
You will upgrade your depth rating with the Advanced course. There is no classroom content - just two days of diving.
The PADI Junior Advanced Open Water program has some great benefits in helping you to develop your diving skills:
By going beyond Open Water Diver, you will:
- Learn additional skills specific to your interests
- Be more confident in and around the water
- Acquire a better understanding of the aquatic world
- Divers under 15 are restricted to 21 metres.
Pre-requisite qualifying courses
Minimum age
- This Junior version of the PADI Advanced Open Water course has the same structure as the adult one, but is for children aged 12 to 15 years.
What the course covers
- 2 core dives – Deep and Navigation
- 3 elective dives – Peak Performance Buoyancy, Diver Propulsion Vehicle, Boat, Nitrox, Dry Suit, Search and Recovery, Wreck, Underwater Naturalist, Drift, Digital Underwater Photography, Multilevel.
Please ask your instructor for suitability.
Note: You may be able to upgrade the dives towards specialty ratings and save money, eg, Dry Suit elective dive could be upgraded to PADI Dry Suit Specialty Diver for £50 + manual, thus saving you £49.
What it will cost and what you'll need
- Course Fee: £189.00
- Manual: £24.95
- Site entrance fee: There is an entrance fee for open water dives requiring entry to an inland site, payable daily by the student. Current fees: Horsea Island: £10.00, Stoney Cove £15.00. Boat fees, where applicable, start at £15.00 per dive.
- Mask, Snorkel, Boots and Fins (Gloves are also recommended for the winter months). Student discounts available on all these items in the Andark shop.
- Medical Declaration (details on Course Booking and Payment page)
- Proof of qualification and experience, (log book and cards), must be provided on day one of the course.
Dates
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