Continuing your education by taking the Advanced Course will improve your diving skills by completing 5 adventure dives with an instructor. On each of these dives we will further develop each of those “specialty skills” so you become a better, safer and more comfortable diver.

The advanced course will prepare you to safely and confidently dive at night, find your way underwater, perfect your buoyancy, plan your dive and dive your plan at multiple levels using a dive computer and to dive down to depths of 30 metres!

Adventure Dives: 

• Peak Performance Buoyancy 

• Underwater Navigation 

• Night 

• Deep 

• Wreck 

• + learn to use a DSMB (Delayed Surface Marker Buoy) 

• + Enriched Air Nitrox Full certification (Optional- extra $178 to cover PADI eLearning)

The course layout is as follows:

• ONLINE TRAINING (5-10 hours before course): start your independent online training at home through the world class PADI eLearning system.

• ORIENTATION (29th October- 6pm to late): meet your instructor and fellow students, review your online training, and discuss course logistics and details. For those who choose there will also be an enriched air nitrox workshop. 

• SHORE DIVES (3rd November- Midday to Late): perfect your finning, bouyancy and trim during the Peak Performance Bouyancy adventure dive and increase your compass and natural navigation skills during the Underwater Navigation dive. 

• NIGHT DIVE (15th November- 5pm to late): The ocean truly comes alive at night and it is a magical experience. Night diving requires a whole new set of skills so learn to safely see your favourite dive sight in a whole new light (literally)!

• BOAT DIVES (17th November- full day): join us and Sunreef Dive Centre to explore the exHMAS Brisbane a shipwreck at 28m off the Mooloolaba coast. 

• CERTIFICATION - once you have met all the requirements for the course, your instructor will certify you as a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver and if you choose PADI Enriched Air Nitrox Diver! 

Included: 

• Transport to/from University of Queensland St Lucia Campus

• All PADI eLearning materials and certification

• Tanks, Air fills and Weights

• Double Dive with Sunreef on the Ex HMAS Brisbane wreck 

What you need: 

• Mask, snorkel and fins

• BCD, Regulators and Wetsuit*

• Dive Computer

• Primary and Secondary Torch

• Compass and dive reel/ finger spool

• Cutting Device and SMB

• Swimmers and towel 

• Water bottle and food

*Loan Gear: As a Unidive member, you can loan gear from the club the Thursday before our dives (5:30pm 31/10/2024 and 5:30pm 14/11/2024 ). Please see Diving -> Loans on the Unidive website for more information. Note that you can only borrow BCDs, regulators and wetsuits from the club, all other gear you need to purchase. We highly reccomend you purchase your own dive computer, but our regulators do include a computer if need be. When you register for the course please indicate what loan gear you require.