Open Water Diver Course & Advanced Open Water Diving Combo

By combining your open water & Advanced Open water diver courses in Phuket saves time and allows you to complete the 2 courses in 4 or 5 days you can sign up today and start learning with free online training, Phuket Dive Tours will teach you as a complete Beginner up to your full Advanced Open Water certification to 30 meters / or in old money 98 feet. You will start learning basic dive theory as self-study ahead of the course, then learn to dive in the pool with our Pro Dive Instructor.

Pre-course sign-up information.

• Fit To Dive read this Medical Statement & Questionnaire for Open Water Diver Health Check.
• Remember 18- 24 hours no Fly after a scuba dive
• NOTE: Before deciding to scuba dive, it is recommended that you have some experience of swimming. Learning to swim before scuba diving will allow you to relax and enjoy your dives, feeling safe in knowing that you are comfortable in the water.
•  Any diver who cannot swim adds additional risk to their personal safety. You don’t need to be a strong swimmer, just comfortable in the water.
• Perform a Swim Test of 200m any style or 300m using a mask snorkel and Fins.
• You must be at least 10 years old, in good health, and comfortable in water too deep in which to stand.
• Float in water to deep to stand for 10 minutes without any assistance or flotation aids.
• To register for either Open Water Diver course program, you must be 10 years old.
• There’s a medical form for any scuba diving activity: you need to read this and sign to confirm you have no medical conditions that can affect your safety. If you declare a medical condition on the form you will not be able to dive without signed clearance from a doctor. Read the medical form and consult a doctor if necessary prior to signing up.

Most visitors to the island who are intent on saving time and want the Advanced adventure take the free e-learning options for both courses with SSI providing Fee digital E-learning when you sign up + free digital C card & digital logbook all available online on your Phone as an APP so you can access your dive card and logbook for free anytime anywhere. integrate perfectly into the daily logistics of everyday life, this suits most student divers meaning you learn at your own pace and don’t pay extra

Worth pointing out at this point it’s the Instructor that has the biggest influence on the quality of the courses and the divers they produce.

 Open water & Advanced Open Water diver prices include:

• Try it now free downloadable SSI Online e-learning 
• FREE digital Dive Log Book as part of the SSI app
• Free digital certification card with SSI.
• Full set of personalized, fitted diving equipment for the duration of the course.
• We will show you how to use a dive computer and why every diver needs one 
• Food, drinks, snacks, meals on all Boat Diving.
• 9 open water boat dives over 4 or 5 days

Dive course theory – Knowledge Development

• You can begin to study independently E-learning is highly recommended, particularly for those whose first language is not English, e learning is also available for free in many other languages. Private study before the start of your course will create more time for you and your instructor to discuss dive knowledge, answer specific questions you may have, and most importantly, practice pool skills in water on day one.
• Knowledge Reviews are completed online and this will be reviewed by your Diving instructor so this independent study section of the manual is very important.

Scuba diving skills practice: 

Confined water is defined as a Swimming pool or confined open water that offers students the same environment like a swimming pool. Diver training will be often be conducted in a Dive pool, or possibly at a local beach.,

• Complete 6 Confined Open Water Diver Course sessions in the pool or at the beach learning new dive skills and practicing the basic principles and safety aspects of scuba diving.

Open Water training dives and depth limitations

• You will complete 9 dives in open water over 3 or 4 days you will practice your skills and develop your confidence in the ocean. The first 2 open water dives will be no deeper than 12 meters, the next 2 (dives 3-4 ) will be no deeper than 18m  –  for the Advanced Open Water dives most are between 16 – 20 meters the deepest will be between 21 meters but no deeper than 30 meters

Deep diving Adventure starts here

Choosing The Best Dive sites options for your diving courses.

As a student learning to dive the choice of open water dive sites for your training dives is often determined by the dive shop selling you the course, you have little or no say in the courses offered to you. Many shops don’t offer any flexible choices or alternatives Why do we include beach diving as an Option (available Mid November – May) for the Open water dives course? Beach dives allow you to spend more time with your family and less time in minivans or on boats!  This is simply common sense to some people, If you are short on Holiday time then the open water course at the beach will save you 5 hours traveling in comparison to Boat Diving.

Option 1 (available late November to April check first) 4 Days – 3 Beach & 6 Boat dives

The dive sites around Phuket are diverse when it comes to marine life and its often the case that the better deeper water sites do have a better variation of marine life, however its worth knowing now that you then have to travel much further, as much as 3 hours to Phi Phi Islands. Remote islands like Phi Phi often have restrictive conditions at the premier dive sites and these may not be available meaning boats often redirect in low season to the not-so-popular reefs, this can often detract from your enjoyment specifically in late December 24th to January 10th due to the sheer demand. If Choosing Phi Phi you should note that you can spend 3-4 hrs traveling prior to making your first dive of the day at around 11 am and Often more than not taking a 6 dive option would result in a very late returns

Why you should book your course with Phuket Dive Tours.

• 3 British Managed Dive shop with 10 years experience –  employing British Instructors to make diving courses safe and Fun.
• Own diver training facility with a huge onsite purpose-built dive pool.
• We don’t employ Young inexperienced instructors with inflated Egos! 
• We are Student Training Center at the entry beginner level –  we focus on Beginners..
• All our instructors have many years of experience, and extensive knowledge of the local dive sites, all hold valid visas and work permits.
• Reputation, we have excellent reviews and customer feedback for quality services and customer care.
• VALUE, with our Diving courses we have low overheads so we pass savings back to customers.
• We offer Kata Beach dives in high season from late November to April as a shorter course option allowing you more time to do other holiday activities.
• We tell customers that the location of your hotel can add an extra 1 hour to traveling per day if staying in Patong.
• The Best Location for your Course and diving Holiday is Kata Beach meaning shorter traveling times often in private transport.
• If you are staying in Patong and have booked a Dive Course you can expect to get picked up at 7am.
• We offer Partial refunds if Customers feel they dont want to continue with the course.

You may want to consider combining the Open Water Diver with the Enriched Air Nitrox Specialty program
You will earn the Open Water Diver and Enriched Air Nitrox (32% or 40%) Specialty certifications after completing these programs each has free online eLearning training materials. 

Our Office is located at Kata Beach, we have Daily Free Local Departures/transfers from all Hotels in the following resorts:-traveling time to Chalong marina is around 15 minutes

Free Transfers Day 2 and 3 from  7:15- 7:30 Patong  – 7:30 7:45 Kata Beach – Karon Beach –  Rawai Beach – Nai Harn – Chalong Bay (Transfers to boat 15 Mins )

Extra Charge Private car Transfer fee per day 7:00 am Ban Tao & Surin Beach 1,600thb  – Maikhao Beach – Ban Tao – Airport Area  Cape Panwa  –  Koh Siray  –  Phuket Town 1,500 THB

The tour itineraries can be changed depending on the local weather condition any changes will be made by the tour leader and boat captain on your trip based on matters of safety

Buy  Now online – 100% refund back into your account within 12 hours if the trip is canceled due to Bad weather – we don’t make any money when mother nature stops the scuba diving

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