Advanced open water

The adventures in diving program is designed to help you build confidence in your diving and develop new skills that will enhance your diving experience. There is a whole selection of adventure dives available to do from Fish ID to Search and Recovery. Complete three of these dives and you will earn the status of PADI Adventure Diver, complete the deep adventure dive, the navigation adventure dive and three others and you will be certified as an Advanced Open Water Diver.

Komodo is a fantastic spot to further your diving skills, what better place to learn more about drift diving, to explore the deeper reefs, to learn about how to ID the hundreds of different fish species we get here! Our experienced crew will go above and beyond the PADI requirements to ensure that you finish the course feeling a more confident, streamlined and knowledgeable diver than when you started.

Do you want to learn how to extend your dive time with better air consumption? Are you keen to explore a little deeper underwater? Or maybe you want to know how to tell the difference between an angel fish and a butterfly fish? There are so many ways to expand your diving knowledge within the adventures of diving programme. The incredible diversity of the Komodo National Park is the perfect place to do it as we have an amazing range of dive sites that lend themselves to becoming a more confident divers. Our multi-lingual dive instructors are passionate about sharing their knowledge and will go above and beyond the PADI requirements, ensuring that each dive leaves you feeling like a better diver.

Safety has been and always will be the number one priority at all of our locations. We keep our course groups small with no more than 4 divers per group - although we rarely have more than 3 people in our Advanced Open Water Courses. Our instructors are all PADI certified and trained in taking all levels of diver. We have small speed boats with each dive boat so that we can ensure you will be expanding your dive knowlege in the best conditions as it means we can split the boat between two dives.

Our equipment is well maintained by our onsite technician, all of which is included in your package price. Our custom designed dive boats are equipped with full safety equipment ensuring you can travel around the Komodo National Park in style and enjoyment, safe in the knowledge you made a fantastic choice to dive with Scuba Junkie Komodo!

What better classroom is there than the stunning Komodo National Park with its resident population of manta rays, reef sharks, beautiful corals and bizarre looking macro! The great selection of dives available means you can dip your toe in an array of adventure dives and finish the course and confident and skilled diver. Spend your time between dives surrounded some some of the most stunning natural landscapes in the world, a great spot to be reading through your PADI advanced manual!

One of the many great things about the PADI Advanced Open Water Course is that it requires no classroom time! There are 5 dives to complete and each dive has an accompanying chapter in the Adventures in Diving PADI book. Read through the chapter and complete the knowledge review at the end, your instructor will then go through the knowledge review with you and explain and expand on the subjects.

The course is 5 dives conducted over 2 days (so time for a cheeky fun dive if you complete your knowledge reviews in time ;) ) and the dives you do on each day will depend on your choices and the conditions of the dive site - the deep dive is usually done as the first dive on the second day.

Any of these adventure dives can also be counted towards the related PADI specialty!

Required for Advanced certification: 

Deep Dive - The PADI deep dive certifies you to go to 30m. The training will look at the safety elements of diving deeper, how depth can affect you, how to plan a deep dive and how it affects your air consumption. You will also get to see how depth affects colours and pressure.

Underwater Navigation - This dive will teach you how to use a compass in relation to diving, some basic ways to estimate distance underwater, and how to use natural navigation during a dive. This is a great way to learn a bit about how to feel orientated underwater. 

Choose any 3 of the following:

Peak performance buoyancy - This is a fantastic adventure dive to do and one that many students say is the most helpful! We highly recommend completing this adventure dive as part of your training. This option provides you with information about how to improve your trim (body position) in the water, how to improve your air consumption, and how to feel more confident in the water - all through playing some fun games underwater!

Drift diving - What better place than Komodo to do a drift diving adventure dive? Learn techniques for how to control yourself during a drift, recognizing currents from the surface, how to enter the dive during a strong drift and how to deploy and surface marker buoy! 

Fish ID - Struggling to know the difference between all the different reef fish? The PADI Fish ID adventure dive will look at the ways that we ID different bony fish, from looking at their body shape to their behaviours. 

Underwater Naturalist - This adventure dive looks at how to tell the difference between bony fish, invertebrates, or plants. Use the incredible diversity of the reefs of Komodo to expand your knowledge of what exactly it is you are looking at

Search and Recovery - A more technical option, this adventure dive will go into detail about how to find lost objects using different search patterns, practice tying knots underwater, and how to recover heavy items using a lift bag. This is an interesting dive for those who like to explore the more technical side of diving.

Boat diving - This adventure dive will look at the different techniques used to dive from a boat! 

Digital underwater imaging* - This is a popular adventure dive for those who want to learn how to record their diving memories! This dive will take you through the basics of taking photos and video underwater, how to set up a camera for taking it underwater, and then how to edit the photos afterwards. 

*Underwater camera rental not included in the course price.

Our Advanced packages offer fantastic value that include your course materials, equipment, PADI instructor, accommodation and food!

Check out the options below and do let us know if you have any questions at all.

Our Standard Terms and Conditions can be found here.

• Advanced Open Water Course e-Learning
• AOWC Certification on successful course completion
• Return boat transfers to/from Labuan Bajo at scheduled times
• Full dive equipment including dive computer for course days
• Accommodation, meals and activities as indicated above
• 10% government tax

• Alcoholic and soft drinks from the bar - cash only.
• Taxi Service from the Airport
• Please note, package rates are based on twin share rooms. If you are staying alone, a single occupancy fee will be applicable
  - Garden Bales: 350,000 IDR single occupancy fee per night
  - Rooms: 385,000 IDR single occupancy fee per night
• Komodo National Park Permit fees (to be paid on arrival, cash only)
  - 275,000 IDR per day for divers
  - 250,000 IDR per day for snorkellers
  - 75,000 IDR per day (Mon-Sat) or 100,000 IDR (Sundays/ Public Holidays) for Indonesian Nationals (KTP Required)