This course helps build confidence and expand your scuba skills through different Adventure Dives. You try out different specialties while gaining experience under the supervision of your PADI Instructor. You log dives and develop capabilities as you find new ways to have fun scuba diving. You’ll plan your learning path with your instructor by choosing from a long list of Adventure Dives!
During the course, you will take two compulsory dives, a Deep dive and an Underwater Navigation dive, plus any three further adventure dives of your choice. For each of the 5 adventure dives that you complete for the course you will have to read the chapter in the PADI Adventures in Diving E-Learning manual and fill out the corresponding knowledge reviews online.
Schedule of the course is:
Step 1 / Academics of your course!
You will receive your PADI eLearning and you will begin your dive education at your convenience prior to arrival, the rest of your time with us will be packed with the fun stuff – being underwater!
Step 2 /With us
Day 1
11.00: Orientation
12.30 – 16.30: Hop on the boat for the Underwater Navigation Adventure dive plus one elective Adventure dive.
18.30 – 20.00: Night Adventure dive*
Day 2
06.30 – 11.00: Deep Adventure dive plus one elective Adventure dive
11.30 – 12.00: Certification
*The night dive is one of your 3 elective dives. (optional)
Let’s go for 5 exciting adventure dives!
Navigation (Required)
✔️Maintain neutral buoyancy.
✔️Determine the average number of kick cycles and average amount of time required to swim underwater at a normal, relaxed pace approximately 30 mts.
✔️Navigate to a predetermined location and return to within 15 meters of the starting point using natural references and estimated distance measurement (kick cycles or time). Surface only if necessary to verify direction or location.
✔️Position and handle a compass underwater to maintain an accurate heading while swimming.
✔️Navigate without surfacing to a predetermined location and return to within 6 meters of the starting point using a compass and estimated distance measurement (kick cycles or time).
✔️Swim a square or rectangular pattern underwater, beginning from a fixed location and returning to within 8 meters of the starting point using a compass.
Deep (Required)
✔️With a buddy, plan and manage gas use, including determining turn pressure, ascent pressure and reserve pressure.
✔️Establish no stop and dive time limits.
✔️Descend using a line, wall or sloping bottom.
✔️Compare changes in color at the surface and at depth.
✔️Compare a dive computer reading to another diver’s depth reading.
✔️Ascend at a rate not to exceed 18 meters/60 feet per minute using a dive computer.
✔️Make a safety stop at 5 meters for at least three minutes.
There are three elective dives that you get to choose:
-Peak Performance Buoyancy Adventure Dive (Recommended)
The most important skill for any confident scuba diver is Buoyancy. Improving your buoyancy will give you more control and improve your air consumption.
Learn how to streamline yourself and your equipment, use your lungs more to control descents, adjust your trim as well as focus on swimming, body position and hovering.
-Night Adventure Dive
Learn how to communicate at night and how to handle a dive torch as well as entry and exit techniques. We will also show you how to navigate a reciprocal heading, a skill you have mastered during the Underwater Navigation dive. This time you will do it in the dark.
Explore the Ocean at night with lots of new cool stuff to spot including the awesome natural phenomenon, Bioluminescence.
-Wreck Diver Adventure Dive
Experience the excitement of diving a shipwreck. Learn how to safety plan and execute a wreck dive deeper than 18 meters on the HTMS Sattakut.
-Underwater Naturalist Adventure Dive
Learn more about underwater life, symbioses between species, underwater ecology, aquatic plants, and animal habitats.
-Fish Identification Adventure Dive
Learn how to identify fish, the family groups they belong to and specific species.
We will also spend time discussing and practicing responsible dive practices to avoid negative effects on the underwater environment.
-Boat Diver Adventure Dive
This dive teaches you specific knowledge about diving off boats including terminology, specific exit and entry points and techniques on how to correctly deploy a surface marker buoy.
-Search & Recovery Adventure Dive
Learn how to use a lift bag and bring an object to the surface, tie a variety of knots and perform an underwater search.
-Digital Underwater Photography Adventure Dive
Your instructor will teach you how to shoot stills understanding the basics of exposure, focus and composition.
-Emergency Oxygen Provider
Knowing when and how to administer Oxygen is a valuable skill in a diving emergency. During this course, you will learn to recognize different injuries and illnesses necessitating Oxygen administration.
