PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course
Overview
Unawatuna Diving Centre features around 16 distinct dive sites, including the famous "Rangoon" Wreck and the SS Oreste. Under the guidance of a PADI Instructor, divers can experience various specialties while exploring depths from 6 to 30 meters.
- 🐠 Dive options include Reef Dives, Rock Dives, Wreck Dives, and Night Dives.
- 🌊 Hard and soft corals are present at most reef dive sites up to 18 meters, though they are unfortunately rare.
- 🦑 Macro life includes various nudibranchs and coral fish native to the Indian Ocean, along with Sting Rays on the sandy bottom.
- ⚓ Deeper dive sites near Galle harbor feature wrecks like the "Rangoon" (30 m), SS Oreste (22 m), and Galle Ship Wreck (18 m).
- 🐟 The two deeper wrecks host abundant soft corals and fish, with schools of Sweet Lips and other species commonly seen.
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The experience offers several options. This price includes:
Pickup included
When giving as a gift, your recipient can choose a date at their convenience during a booking process. Otherwise, you can choose one after checkout and voucher redemption.
- Coffee and/or Tea
- Snacks
- Use of SCUBA equipment
- Bottled water
- PLEASE NOTE PADI FEE OF 70 EUROS IS NOT INCLUDED IN THE AOWD COURSE WITHOUT ELEARNING
- Doesn't include certificate&teaching materials(expect PADI eLearning),price for PADI Card&Manual=70€
- Lunch
Meeting point
Return details
If you want to take the theory of the course online by PADI AOWD eLearning you have to purchase it on the PADI website and register for PADI AOWD eLearning with our diving centre Divinguru Unawatuna, PADI 5 Star Dive Resort, S-36133.
Minimum Certification Age is 12 Yrs+
Course Content and Schedule
The PADI ADVANCED OPEN WATER DIVER COURSE takes around 2 to 3 days and includes 5 adventure dives. You will have to do some theory for each dive (without exam) for around half a
day and then 2 or 3 dives per day. Deep Diving and Underwater Navigation are mandatory and then you can choose 3 more adventure dives (wreck, boat, peak performance buoyancy, fish ID and so on) with one of our PADI Dive Instructors.
If you start in the morning, you have to be at our diving centre at 8.30 am for registration. For the afternoon registration you have to be at our Diving Centre at 1.30 pm.
If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.
If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met,
you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.