Enhance your diving skills over five adventure dives with Unidive, our partner PADI instructors and divemasters, and even aboard the Gold Coast Dive Adventures boat. Each dive is designed to develop your advanced skills, helping you become a safer, more confident, and comfortable diver.

This AOW camp will help you gain confidence in night diving, boat diving, and dives up to 30m, while also improving your buoyancy, trim, DSMB deployment, navigation, compass skills, and marine life identification skills. 

Adventure Dives: 

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

The course layout is as follows:

• ONLINE TRAINING (6-8 hours): Start your independent online training at home through the world-class PADI eLearning system.
• ORIENTATION + THEORY WORKSHOP @ Unidive Shed (30 April- 6:00 pm to late): meet your instructor and fellow students and then dive at UQ pool together to practice your fin pivot, hover, trim and DSMB skills. 
• ROAD TRIP:  Let's turn our three days of diving into a fun long weekend away, staying at Tweed Holiday Park and relaxing in the Gold Coast/ Tweed area in between dives. We will leave the Brisbane area on May 2nd, go to our campground, set up tents and then go through a camping-style classroom session to review online training and focus on the theory and dryland training for the upcoming dives. We will be home late afternoon Monday, 4th May.
• NIGHT DIVES @ Tweed Heads NSW (2nd May): The ocean truly comes alive at night, and it is a magical experience. Night diving requires a whole new set of skills, so learn to safely see your favourite dive site in a whole new light (literally)! 
• PEAK PERFORMANCE BUOYANCY + NAVIGATION DIVES @ Tweed Heads NSW (3rd May): 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. 
• DEEP + UNDERWATER NATURALIST DIVES @ Nine Mile Reef with Gold Coast Dive Adventures (4th April): Join us and GCDA to explore the 30m deep Nine Mile Reef, off the Tweed coast. 

OPTION 1: PADI ADVANCED OW COURSE ($675)

If you are an OW diver wanting to use this training weekend to earn your AOW certification, then this option is for you. Please note that certification is not guaranteed as it depends on your performance during the course. All skills are taught and practised thoroughly, allowing all students the opportunity to be certified. There is no failure—only opportunities for more practice. Extra sessions and repetition are always possible. The goal is safety, confidence, and true skill mastery—not ticking boxes

Registrations open: 5 pm 1st of April 

Required Certification: You must be a certified Scuba Diver (PADI Open Water or equivalent). 

Included:

• All PADI eLearning materials and all certification fees 
• Transport to/from the University of Queensland St Lucia Campus
• Tanks, Air fills, and Weights for all 5 dives
• Double Dive with GCDA on Nine Mile Reef  
• Two nights' camp ground tent site at Tweed Holiday Park, Tweed Heads.

OPTION 2: ($400)

If you already have your AOW qualification and are looking to refresh your skills and have a fun weekend away, you are also welcome to join us as an option 2 participant. You are expected to redo your AOW eLearning before the trip.

Registrations open: 5 pm 13th of April 

Required Certification: you must be a certified PADI Advanced Open Water (or equivalent).

Included:

• Transport to/from the University of Queensland St Lucia Campus
• Tanks, Air fills, and Weights for all 5 dives
• Double Dive with GCDA on Nine Mile Reef  
• Two nights' camp ground tent site at Tweed Holiday Park, Tweed Heads.

OPTION 3: ($210)

If you are only available on Monday and want to join us on the GCDA boat to explore Nine Mile Reef as a fun diver, then this option is for you. 

Registrations open: 5 pm, 20th of April 

Required Certification: You must be a certified PADI Advanced Open Water (or equivalent).

Included:

• Double Dive with GCDA on Nine Mile Reef  

What you need: 

• 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
• Camping Equipment: mattress, tent, blankets/ sleeping bag, etc. (not required for option 3)
• 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.

10th May Rescue Adventure Dive 

2 Students (see admin notes) added to the Rescue course to finalise their AOW qualification by doing Rescue Adventure dive instead of Underwater Naturalist.