Are you ready to meet some new challenges?  Thirsty for adventure?  Do you want to have a lot of fun?  The PADI Advanced Open Water course is made for you!

This is the dreamed of moment to learn new techniques, increase your confidence and really progress underwater.

The course is made up of 5 Adventure dives.  The Deep and Underwater Navigation dives are compulsory.  You then have the choice of three themes that interest you…

During the PADI Advanced Open Water Course the emphasis is on the practical side.  The student independently covers the theory which is checked and revised by your Instructor during the dives.  The studying is complemented by specific techniques learnt in Open Water (and sometimes prepared in confined water).

Once you’ve got the certification you can dive up to 30 metres (20 metres for Junior Advanced Open Water Divers).

You’ll be welcomed in a familiar and relaxed atmosphere, by a team of serious professionals who put an accent on leisure and pleasure!

Prerequisites:

• To want to do it.
• 10 years old
• Know how to swim.
• Open Water or Niveau 1.
• Medical certificate.

PADI Advanced Open Water divers are qualified to:

• Dive with a buddy of the same level to a max depth of 30 metres (20 metres if less than 15 years old).
• Carry on their dive training via all of the PADI Specialty courses.
• Access our courses for Advanced divers!

Which Adventure Dives can you choose?

• Deep.
• Drift.
• Night.
• Delayed Surface Marker Buoy.
• Enriched Air Nitrox (specialty optional).
• Peak Performance Buoyancy.
• Navigation.
• Wreck.
• Boat.

The course includes:

• Adapted and personalised training.
• Course conducted by a high level professional.
• 5 half days or training.
• 5 training dives.
• Theory teaching.
• Continuous assessment (no final exam).
• Certification costs.
• A good atmosphere!

The course does not include:

• Accommodation and meals.
• Sun cream or shower gel.
• Equipment hire (50% off for a diver doing a course).

Additional options:

• Buy your equipment at a competitive rate for the entire Aqualung range.
• Private training.
• Supplementary training dives

What’s different with Aqualonde?

• The option with the premium version to be able to use Nitrox, the only mix beathable that increases your safety.
• No lifting, your gear is systematically transported with our chariots between the centre and the 10 metres distance towards the boat.
• Hot showers in the changing rooms of our dive centre.
• Access to an innovative extra : a dive analysed by a Dopper* ultrasound (not invasive, no needle) “O’Dive” that for the first time globally allows a diver to adapt his diving by taking account of gas microbubbles detected in the veins after the dive.  This gives you real physiological data (not just theoretical) about your decompression thanks to a French startup “O’Dive”.
• Access to the most beautiful and prestigious dive sites of the Meditterranean.  The “Grec”, “Donator”, “Hellcat”, “Ville de Grasse” : the only paddle steamer wreck still intact or even a submarine decorated with “The order of freedom”.  Not forgetting the pinnacles or the famous “Gabinière drop off”, one the richest marine life sites in the heart of the “Port Cros” national park.  There is something for all tastes, enormous schools of barracuda, from turtles to sunfish via monkfish and groupers and red gorgonians!
• The closest dive centre to the Golden Islands from the mainland.
• Many hotels and restaurants nearby, for all budgets.  La Londe Les Maures is at the heart of the Côte d’Azur, between Hyères and St Tropez, in one of the most preserved areas due to the “Port Cros” National Park and the summer residence of the President of the Republic : “Fort Bregançon”.  We’re located on the port, with a big car park, a departure point for the ferries to the Golden Islands and all public transport connections.  There are many other activities available for all of the family while you’re making bubbles!  Find all of our recommendations here. 
• Did you like the equipment you used?  We offer it for sale at competitive prices.

* Assuming we have the equipment available

How to carry on with the Adventure?

Once you’ve become a PADI Advanced Open Water you can increase the range of your diving by doing Specialty courses.  These courses are designed to ease your progress, increase your experience, confidence and ability.  You can also access our courses for Advanced divers.

Price and payment

• €480.  PADI Advanced Open Water Standard.
• €600.  PADI Advanced Open Water Premium.

Nitrox Specialty (mix that increases your safety) or Surface Marker Buoy Specialty (signalling method that is compulsory for autonomy in France).