Red Sea Diving
PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
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Who it's for
People aged 12 and over, who have completed the Open Water Diver course or any other entry-level dive course.
Duration
Two to three days.
Prerequisites
Description
The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course focuses on expanding your diving experience and building on the knowledge learnt in the PADI Open Water Diver course.
The course consists of 5 dives, usually taken over two days, gives you the opportunity to try some of diving's most rewarding and practical speciality activities such as deep diving, digital underwater photography or wreck diving (a great choice in Sharm el Sheikh or El Gouna, where wreck diving is easily accessible).
You must complete a deep dive and underwater navigation dive, and then choose three other specialities from a list including: Boat diving, peak performance buoyancy, underwater naturalist, underwater photography, multilevel diving, night diving, search and recovery, drift diving and wreck diving.
Where can I do the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course, and how much does it cost?
| Dive Centre | Resort | Price 1 Nov 2009 - 31 Oct 2010 |
Price 1 Nov 2010 - 31 Oct 2011 |
| Sharm el Sheikh | £175 |
£175 |
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| Red Sea Waterworld | Sharm el Sheikh | £219 |
£219 |
| Red Sea Waterworld | Taba Heights | £185 |
£179 |
| Aqua-Sport | Taba | £179 |
£175 |
| Divers' Lodge | Hurghada | £180 |
£179 |
| Easy Divers | Hurghada | £165 |
£169 |
| Emperor Divers | Port Ghalib/Marsa Alam | from £205 |
from £205 |
| Reef 2000 | Dahab | from £149 |
from £149 |
| Emperor Divers | Nuweiba | from £185* |
from £185* |
| Soma Bay/Abu Soma | £209 |
£209 |
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| The Dive Tribe | El Gouna | £249 |
from £205 |
| Pharaoh Dive Club | El Quseir | £149 |
£149 |
| Sea Star | Aqaba | £155 |
£155 |
| Aqua-Sport | Eilat | £159 |
£159 |
| Red Sea Sports Club | Eilat | £125 |
£125 |
*includes 1 day's diving |
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Extras may be payable locally, depending on the resort and dive centre; see dive centre pages for further information. Course materials and certification not included.
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