The PADI Advanced Open Water course is your chance to develop your dive skills and experiment with new types of diving. It’s exciting, fun, and there are a lot of awesome dives to choose from when you are diving in Bali .
Imagine diving to 30 meters, swimming with manta rays, or even mastering the art of underwater photography. It’s all possible when you are diving Nusa Lembongan and our surrounding area of Nusa Penida. During your PADI Advanced course you’ll make 5 incredible Adventure Dives in Nusa Lembongan, which include some of the most famous dive sites in the Nusa Penida Marine Protected Area.
PADI Adventure Dives: Nusa Lembongan &Penida
There are two required dives, a deep dive and an underwater navigation dive. There are also three more dives which you can choose from the following options: Drift diving, Peak Performance Buoyancy, Night diving, Underwater Naturalist, Fish ID, Boat Diving, Search and Recovery, Underwater Photography, and Multi Level & Computer diving.
Mandatory Dives:
Let’s take a closer look at the two mandatory dives that you will need to make during your PADI Advanced Open Water course in Nusa Lembongan…
Deep Dive:
Once you are certified as an Advanced Open Water Diver, you’ll be able to dive to a maximum depth of 30 meters, so it’s essential that you practice deep diving procedures during your course. In the theory section, you’ll take a more in depth look at decompression issues as well as nitrogen narcosis, you’ll also learn how to plan dives before making one for yourself and discovering the amazing depths of scuba diving in Nusa Penida!
Underwater Navigation:
Remember the compass skills from your open water course dives? The Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive refines your compass navigation skills, and helps you better navigate using kick-cycles, visual landmarks, and time. You’ll also discover some of the pitfalls of navigating underwater due to conditions and currents.
Choose Three More Adventure Dives
As well as the two mandatory dives, you will make three more adventure dives – which you can choose! Here’s an overview of some of the options that we have available around Nusa Lembongan and Nusa Penida.
Peak Performance Buoyancy:
Are you still going up and down more than you’d like to? Do you use your air faster than your buddies? Do you have trouble staying still underwater? In the peak performance buoyancy dive, you’ll put an end to your buoyancy woes. You’ll learn how to gauge the weights you need for diving, how to use breath control to fine tune your positioning, how to kick efficiently, and ultimately how to be more streamlined, comfortable, and efficient underwater.
Drift Diving:
There is no better place to learn drift diving than along Nusa Penida’s north coast. Drift diving is easy when you know how and it opens up a range of new dive sites. You’ll learn how to plan a drift dive and how to (literally) go with the flow. After making a drift diving entry and descent you’ll explore one of our favourite Nusa Penida dive sites and learn how to ‘read’ the currents along the way. At the end of the dive, you’ll make a controlled ascent before being picked up by the boat.
Night Diving:
Why limit yourself to seeing only the marine life that’s active during the day? As the sun goes down so many of Bali’s most cryptic critters come to life! You’ll learn how to plan a night dive, communicate with your buddy during a night dive, as well as mastering navigation at night. Be aware though that night diving can become strangely addictive!
Please Note: the availability of night dives is subject to sea conditions and tides.
Fish Identification:
Finding ‘that silver fish’ in marine life books is never easy so during the fish identification dive you’ll learn how to identify various families of fish by sight. You’ll learn how to record sightings including which features are most important to take note of in order to be able to identify the species later. You’ll find that the fish books which used to appear overwhelming suddenly make sense! With over 75% of the world’s tropical fish found at our dive sites, you’ll have plenty to learn!
Underwater Naturalist:
Many divers know the names of fish and various species found when scuba diving in Bali, but few divers know about the entire marine ecosystem, what it includes and how it all co-exists. During the underwater naturalist program, you’ll extend your knowledge beyond fish to plants, corals, and the symbiotic relationships that hold the pieces of the puzzle together. This is a great dive for anyone interested in nature and reef ecosystems.
Underwater Photography:
It’s hard to think of a better Instagram moment than when you are diving with manta rays or encounter a mola mola – which is definitely possible when you are diving in Nusa Penida. Say goodbye to blurry and blue images and say hello to crisper focus and colour!
In this optional dive, you’ll put into practice the SEA method (shoot, evaluate, adjust) and you’ll learn camera and housing preparation for dives, how to use underwater lights, camera settings, how to read histograms, and invaluable underwater shooting techniques for capturing even the flightiest of fish!
Search and Recovery:
In this adventure dive you’ll learn a variety of underwater search patterns and when to use each one. You’ll also learn techniques for using a lift bag for moving negatively buoyant objects from the bottom. During your dive you’ll put these techniques into practice – which is a rewarding challenge and a lot of fun! This is a great choice for anyone who plans to make underwater cleanup dives, or enter the diving industry on a professional or commercial level.
Boat Diving:
Do you know your stern from your starboard? Learn to identify the parts of dive boats, boat diving entries and exits, signaling for boats on the surface – and the best bit of this option? Dive from our luxurious, traditional Big Boat or one of our speedy speedboats!
Multilevel & Computer Diving:
When diving Nusa Lembongan and Nusa Penida we are most often diving on sloping reefs which are ideal for practicing multilevel diving. A multilevel dive allows you to explore more of a dive site and have longer and safer dives than staying at depth. You’ll plan your multilevel dive then you’ll lead your instructor from level to level according to your plan! You’ll also learn how to read your dive computer (we will provide one if you do not have your own), how to use it for dive planning, and how to retrieve dive information for your logbook after diving.
PADI Advanced Open Water Course Schedule
Remember the reading and theory from the PADI Open Water Diver course? The good news is that the Advanced has far less and we usually complete the course in 2 days.
If you opt for eLearning there is a quick review (quiz) on your first day and you may need to read additional sections in the manual according to your dive choices.
For divers taking the complete Advanced Open Water course in Lembongan, there are 5 chapters to read (one for each dive) and some theory questions to review with your instructor. There is no exam for the Advanced Open Water course and reading can be done in the afternoons or evenings when you are not diving.
Our *2 day schedule includes a morning boat trip each day and one afternoon dive. During your 2 dive morning trips you’ll head over to Nusa Penida and dive Bali’s most vibrant and healthy coral reefs – if conditions are good you might even explore the most famous sites of Manta Point and Crystal Bay!
You’ll dive from either our spacious traditional Big Boat or one of our smaller, speedier speedboats. A traditional Balinese rice parcel and fresh fruit are provided during the surface interval on all boats in between dives.
(*Scheduling is flexible to account for sea conditions, whether you opt for eLearning or theory in Lembongan, your arrival time on the first day, and your chosen dive options. To be safe, you should allow 2.5 days to complete your program)
Become PADI Advanced in Nusa Lembongan, Bali
Are you ready to take the plunge and become a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver? For more information or to make a reservation, send us an email to info@world-diving.com or complete our online contact form on the link below.
We look forward to scuba diving in Lembongan with you soon!
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