Advanced Open Water

Once you’ve earned your Open Water Diver certification, the Advanced Open Water Diver Course is the next step to becoming a more confident and capable diver. You’ll build practical skills through five adventure dives over two days, including deep diving and underwater navigation, while choosing additional adventure dives based on your interests.

Complete your course while exploring some of Bali’s most popular dive sites, from the USAT Liberty Wreck in Tulamben to the reefs of Padang Bai or the manta rays of Nusa Penida. We’ll create a personalized itinerary based on your preferred dive locations, experience, and current ocean conditions.

  • Get certified to 30 meters (100 feet)
  • Have fun dives at your preferred dive sites in Bali and upgrade your skills and certification at the same time.
  • You can choose your favorite Bali diving sites and experience every highlight of it.
  • Get the chance to see Manta Ray and chance to sight Mola Mola in Nusa Penida Dive Site, Fun Drift Diving in Nusa Penida or Nusa Lembongan.
  • Or explore a WW2 shipwreck in Tulamben Dive Site, and feel the excitement during Night Diving in Tulamben.
Ssi Advanced Open Water Diver

SSI Advanced Open Water

Advanced Dive certification is a level for those wanting to improve their diving skills, knowledge, and confidence. Certified as an advanced diver means you will be more prepared for greater diving circumstances.

Night dives, drift dives, dive sites with heavy currents, deep dives are only some of the circumstances you will be allowed face after certification.

We would also assess your diving skills before starting your Advanced Dive course.

As we organize both Advanced Open Water Diver Certification of SSI Advanced Open Water Dive certifications and other brands of agency of your choices, we would apply different requirements for both organizations. After being a certified Advanced Diver, you would be able to dive up to 30 meters for recreational diving, do various adventure dives, and visit the specific Bali dive sites for experienced divers.

We have some options of Bali Diving famous spot to complete your advanced diving course, price for these 2 options are different, please contact us.

Advanced Open Water Diver

PADI Advanced Diver Course

Adventure Divers course opens the possibility of adding three skills of interest to your credentials, learned in a day. You can choose from the specialties dives we provide upon your request.

This course is suitable for you if you have only 1 days and total of 3x dives in a day, after this certification you can continue and upgrade to The Advanced Open Water Course in any dive center worldwide.

What are the qualifications?

  • Minimum age: 10 years old.
  • Minimum age for Adventure Dive in Deep Diving: 12 years old.
  • Hold an Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver certification, or an equivalent certification from another recognized certification agency.

Advanced Open Water Diver Certification Prices

Advanced Course 1

Option 1
Nusa Penida-Manta &Tulamben

IDR 7.400.000

SSI
5 Adventure Dives in 2 days
Pickup & Drop-off service
Lunch & snacks
E-learning materials and diving equipment
Small Group Ratio to Instructor
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Learn Scuba Diving in Bali

Advanced Course 2

Option 2
Tulamben & Padang Bai

IDR 6.150.000

SSI
5 Adventure Dives in 2 days
Pickup & Drop-off service
Lunch & snacks
E-learning materials and diving equipment
Small Group Ratio to Instructor
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Night Diving

Advanced Course 3

Option 3
Tulamben & Padang Bai–Night Diving

IDR 7.200.000

SSI
5 Adventure Dives in 2 days
Pickup & Drop-off service
Lunch & snacks
E-learning materials and diving equipment
Small Group Ratio to Instructor
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Advanced Course 1

Option 1
Nusa Penida-Manta &Tulamben

IDR 7.900.000

PADI
5 Adventure Dives in 2 days
Pickup & Drop-off service
Lunch & snacks
E-learning materials and diving equipment
Small Group Ratio to Instructor
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Padang Bai Dive Trip

Advanced Course 2

Option 2
Tulamben & Padang Bai

IDR 6.600.000

PADI
5 Adventure Dives in 2 days
Pickup & Drop-off service
Lunch & snacks
E-learning materials and diving equipment
Small Group Ratio to Instructor
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dive course Tulamben

Advanced Course 3

Option 3
Tulamben & Padang Bai–Night Diving

IDR 7.600.000

PADI
5 Adventure Dives in 2 days
Pickup & Drop-off service
Lunch & snacks
E-learning materials and diving equipment
Small Group Ratio to Instructor
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Option 1

Manta Diving & Tulamben Shipwreck

  • Manta Diving in Nusa Penida and Tulamben Shipwreck
  • 2 days of 5x adventure diving in Bali. You will experience drift diving, deep diving, navigation, achieve your perfect buoyancy, boat diving, photography, and many more.
  • Chance to dive with Manta Ray and sight the Mola Mola during the season.
  • Pick up at 7 am and finish around 4 pm, both days based on a daily trip.

Option 2

Tulamben Shipwreck & Padang Bai

  • Tulamben Shipwreck and Padang Bai Diving – DAY TRIP
  • 2 days of 5x adventure diving in Bali. You will experience deep diving, wreck diving, navigation, perfect buoyancy skills, boat diving, and many more.
  • Chance to explore the historical Shipwreck and stunning coral reefs in Padang Bai white sandy beach. Based on day trip in 2 days – 3x dives in Tulamben and 2 dives in Padang Bai.

Option 3

Tulamben Shipwreck & Padang Bai Night diving

  • Tulamben Shipwreck and Padang Bai – NIGHT DIVING (based on day trip)
  • 2 days of 5x adventure diving in Bali. You will experience night diving, deep diving,wreck diving, navigation, perfect buoyancy skills, boat diving, and many more.
  • Chance to explore the historical Shipwreck and stunning coral reefs in Padang Bai white sandy beach. Also it is a good idea to add an extra night dives during your Advanced Diving Course in Bali.

Advanced Open Water Diver Course FAQs

The PADI Advanced Open Water Course or SSI Advanced Open Water Course is designed to enhance your diving skills and knowledge after completing the Open Water Diver certification. It allows you to explore more specialized diving activities and extend your depth limit, offering a deeper dive into the underwater world.

The course is structured to be accessible yet challenging, encouraging you to build on your existing skills in various diving conditions. With personalized guidance from experienced instructors, divers find the course rewarding and within their capability to complete successfully.

You will complete of 5 adventure dives, including deep and navigation dives, to earn your Advanced Open Water Diver certification. These dives boost your confidence and proficiency in different diving scenarios.

Typically, the course can be completed in 2 days, depending on the dive center availability or schedule and the diver’s comfort and readiness. It combines theoretical learning with practical dive experiences to ensure a comprehensive understanding and skillset, including theory sessions and five adventure dives. This structure allows divers to absorb the material thoroughly and apply their learning in real-world diving situations.

The main difference lies in the skill level and diving depth. The Open Water Diver course introduces you to scuba diving basics up to 18 meters. In contrast, the Advanced Open Water Diver course expands your skills, allowing you to dive up to 30 meters and handle more complex diving situations. This course is designed to expand your diving knowledge and skills beyond the basics. It includes deeper dives, navigation techniques, improving the buoyancy and technique, exposure to various specialty diving activities. This course is about exploring more challenging dive sites and gaining confidence in different diving conditions.

Embarking on the Advanced Open Water Diver course in Bali offers an unparalleled opportunity to dive into some of the world’s most mesmerizing underwater environments. This course emphasizes practical, hands-on experience in Bali’s diverse dive sites, allowing divers to enhance their skills across different diving conditions and scenarios. You will experience at least 5 Adventure dives in Bali.

Beginners need to complete the Open Water Diver certification before advancing. The foundational skills and safety knowledge gained in the initial course are crucial for tackling the more complex and challenging dives encountered in the Advanced Open Water course.

Divers must have an Open Water Diver certification from SSI or PADI or an equivalent from another recognized certification agency. Good physical health and basic swimming skills are also required to ensure safety and enjoyment during the course.

Our advanced scuba diving training programs in Bali include five adventure dives covering deep diving, navigation, and peak performance buoyancy. We design these programs specifically to enhance your skills through real and varied dive experiences, helping you handle diverse underwater conditions with noticeably improved confidence, refined technique, and a higher level of overall diving performance.

We take advanced divers to truly world-class dive sites, including Nusa Penida, Tulamben’s famous USAT Liberty wreck, Crystal Bay, and beautiful Menjangan Island. These advanced diving locations in Bali offer strong currents, deep walls, and exceptional marine biodiversity, providing thrilling and genuinely challenging experiences for certified, experienced, and adventure-seeking divers of all backgrounds and specializations.

Our advanced open water diver course in Bali begins with a skill assessment and theory review, then moves into five guided adventure dives completed over two full days. We follow a structured step-by-step training approach that progressively builds your diving abilities, giving you real hands-on experience and growing confidence across diverse and exciting dive environments in Bali.

Advanced scuba diving safety training is fully integrated throughout our advanced open water course in Bali. We teach critical techniques such as precision navigation, buoyancy control, and deep diving safety protocols, ensuring you can confidently and safely manage more complex underwater environments and demanding diving situations as you work toward your advanced open water diver certification in Bali.

Our Advanced Open Water Option 3 in Bali specifically includes night diving at Padang Bai alongside wreck and reef dives at Tulamben. Priced at IDR 7,200,000 for the SSI version, this option is popular with divers wanting to experience Bali’s underwater world after dark as part of their five-adventure dive certification. Night diving adds a completely different dimension to the Bali Advanced Open Water experience.

We create personalised Advanced Open Water itineraries based on each candidate’s preferred Bali dive locations, experience level, and current ocean conditions. Beyond the three standard options, candidates can discuss custom site combinations with the Bali FUN Diving team in Sanur. The flexibility to choose Bali dive locations ensures every Advanced Open Water course feels like a genuine diving adventure rather than a repetitive training exercise.

The Open Water Diver course at Bali FUN Diving introduces scuba diving basics up to 18 metres, while the Advanced Open Water course extends depth to 30 metres and builds skills for drift dives, night dives, wreck dives, and deeper underwater navigation. Both courses are available through Bali FUN Diving as an official SSI partner in Sanur, Bali, with the Advanced program being the natural progression for any diver wanting to explore Bali’s full underwater range.

Advanced scuba diving safety is fully integrated into Bali FUN Diving’s Advanced Open Water course in Bali. Candidates learn precision navigation, buoyancy control, deep diving safety protocols, and how to manage more complex underwater situations before and during every adventure dive. A skills assessment is also conducted before the course begins, ensuring each student in Bali starts training at the right level with appropriate confidence and preparation.

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