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
• Night 
• Deep
• Wreck
• + learn to use 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 (21 August- 5:30pm 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.
• SHORE DIVES @ Tweed Heads NSW (23rd August- 5 am to approx. 2pm): 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. 
• DIVE PRE-BRIEFING + THEORY WORKSHOP @ Unidive Shed (28th August- 5:30pm to late): prepare for the weekend’s dives, go through some more theory and any last-minute questions.  We will focus on the theory for the upcoming Deep and Wreck dives.
• BOAT DIVES @ Sunshine Coast (31st August—full day): Join us and Sunreef Dive Centre to explore the exHMAS Brisbane, a shipwreck 28m off the Mooloolaba coast. 
• DIVE PRE-BRIEFING + THEORY WORKSHOP @ Unidive Shed (4th September- 5:30pm to late): prepare for the weekend’s dives, go through some more theory and any last-minute questions. We will focus on the theory for the upcoming night dive.
• NIGHT DIVE @ Gold Coast Seaway (30th March- 7 pm to late): 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)! 
• CERTIFICATION: Once you have met all the course requirements, your instructor will certify you as a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver!

Cost: $610

Included: 

• Transport to/from University of Queensland St Lucia Campus
• All PADI eLearning materials and certification
• Tanks, Air fills and Weights
• Double Dive with Sunreef on the exHMAS Brisbane wreck 

What you need: 

• To be a certified Scuba Diver (PADI Open Water or equivalent)
• Mask, snorkel and fins
• BCD, Regulators, Dive Computer and Wetsuit*
• Primary Torch, Secondary Torch and a glowstick
• Compass
• Cutting Device
• SMB 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
• Bank Transfer- make sure to have the Invoice Number and name in the description to help out the treasurer. 

Unidive Bank Details:

• Account name: UNIDIVE UQ UNDERWATER CLUB INC
• BSB: 064 158
•  Account Number: 00904489

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.