Continuing your education by taking the Advanced Course will improve your diving skills. You will complete 5 adventure dives with an instructor. On each of these dives, we will further develop each of those “specialty skills”, so you become a better, safer, and more comfortable diver.

The advanced course will prepare you to safely and confidently dive at night, find your way underwater, perfect your buoyancy, plan your dive and dive your plan at multiple levels using a dive computer and to dive down to depths of 30 metres!

Adventure Dives: 

• Peak Performance Buoyancy
• Underwater Navigation
• Drift
• Deep
• Underwater Naturalist
• + practice using a DSMB (Delayed Surface Marker Buoy)

The course layout is as follows:

• ONLINE TRAINING(5-10 hours before course): start your independent online training at home through the world class PADI eLearning system.
• ORIENTATION + THEORY WORKSHOP @ Unidive Shed (2 April- 6:00pm to late): meet your instructor and fellow students, review your online training, and discuss course logistics and details. We will focus on the theory and dryland training for the upcoming Peak Performance Buoyancy and Underwater Navigation dives. 
• ROAD TRIP:  Let's turn our three days of diving into a fun long weekend away, staying at YHA Coolangatta and relaxing in the Gold Coast/ Tweed area inbetween dives. We will leave Brisbane area early Saturday 4th April and be home late afternoon Monday 6th April. 
• SHORE DAY 1 @ Tweed Heads NSW (4th April- full day): perfect your finning, buoyancy and trim during the Peak Performance Buoyancy adventure dive and increase your compass and natural navigation skills during the Underwater Navigation dive. 
• SHORE DAY 2 @ Gold Coast Seaway (5th April- full day): We will start at the east GC Seaway stairs (closest to the ocean) and drift along the wall towards the west stairs. This is an incredible site with an incredible amount of marine life, and planning it as a drift dive is very relaxing, making you feel like you are flying. 
• BOAT DIVES @ Nine Mile Reef (6th April—full day): Join us and GCDA to explore the 30m deep Nine Mile Reef, off the Tweed coast. 
• CERTIFICATION: Once you have met all the course requirements, your instructor will certify you as a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver!

Cost: $825

Included: 

• Transport to/from University of Queensland St Lucia Campus
• All PADI eLearning materials and certification
• Tanks, Air fills and Weights for all 5 dives
• Double Dive with GCDA on Nine Mile Reef  
• Two nights' dorm room accommodation at the YHA Coolangatta 

What you need: 

• To be a certified Scuba Diver (PADI Open Water or equivalent)
• Signed PADI medical form- some medical histories require a GP signature as well as your own. If you answer, yes to any questions on page two, please ensure to book a GP appointment asap. PADI Medical Form
• Mask, snorkel and fins
• BCD, Regulators, Dive Computer and Wetsuit*
• Compass
• Cutting Device
• DSMB and Dive reel/ finger spool
• Swimmers and towel 
• Water bottle and food

*Loan Gear: As a Unidive member, you can loan gear from the club on the night of our dive briefings the Thursdays before our dives. Please see Diving -> Loans on the Unidive website (https://www.unidive.org/diving/loans) for more information. Note that you can only borrow BCDs, regulators and wetsuits from the club, all other gear you need to purchase. We highly recommend you purchase your own dive computer, but our regulators do include a computer if need be. When you register for the course, please indicate what loan gear you require.

How to register and secure your place on the course: 

Simply, register for the event on Unidive Website (button above). You will have 1 week to pay from the date of registration. This is to ensure we can issue online learning as soon as possible and so give students time to complete it before the orientation session. If you have not paid in this time your place may be given to the next member on the waiting list.

There are three ways to pay: 

• through the website (please note that this has the highest surcharge)
• EFTPOS - be at the club next Thursday night

If the event is full and you wish to register, please contact the committee (training@unidive.org). We can place you on the waiting list, work to expand the maximum capacity or organise another event.