Continuing your education by taking the Advanced Course will improve your diving skills. You will complete 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 $156 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 + THEORY WORKSHOP @ Unidive Shed (27th March- 5:30pm 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 @ Tweed Heads NSW (29th March- 5 am to approx. midday): perfect your finning, buoyancy and trim during the Peak Performance Buoyancy adventure dive and increase your compass and natural navigation skills during the Underwater Navigation dive. 
• NIGHT DIVE @ Gold Coast Seaway (30th March- 7 pm 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)! 
• DIVE PRE-BRIEF + THOERY WORKSHOP @ Unidive Shed (10th April- 5:30pm to late): prepare for the weekend’s dives, go through some more theory and any last-minute questions.  
• BOAT DIVES @ Sunshine Coast (12th April—full day): Join us and Sunreef Dive Centre to explore the exHMAS Brisbane, a shipwreck 28m off the Mooloolaba coast. 
• CERTIFICATION: Once you have met all the course requirements, your instructor will certify you as a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or, if you choose, a PADI Enriched Air Nitrox Diver! 

Cost: $610 (+ $156 for Enriched Air add on)

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 exHMAS Brisbane wreck 

What you need: 

• Mask, snorkel and fins
• BCD, Regulators, Dive Computer and Wetsuit*
• Primary Torch, Secondary Torch and a glowstick
• Compass
• Cutting Device
• SMB and Dive reel/ finger spool
• 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 27/03/2025 and 5:30pm 10/03/2025). 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 recommend 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.

Rescheduling due to weather (more information emailed to members registered):

• Peak performance buoyancy- completed as planned 29th of March 
• Navigation - planned to complete 29th of March, then rescheduled to 12th of April at Seaway 7:45am high tide 
• Night - planned 30th of March, then rescheduled to 9th of April. Epic Dive! We had dolphins, rays, puffer fish squid and a lot of silver fish. 
• Deep + Wreck - planned double boat dive with Sunreef 12th of April on HMAS Brisbane. This has been rescheduled to 27th of April.