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Overnight Liveaboard: PADI Advanced Dive Course 2-DAY/1-NIGHT
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Further Your Dive Education with the PADI Advanced Dive Certification, Course Includes: Deep Deep, Navigation Dive, Night Dive, Peak Performance Buoyancy + 1-Elective Dive + 1-Fun Dive. Enjoy this 2-Day/1-Night or 3-Day/2-Night Liveaboard.
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Overnight Liveaboard: PADI Advanced Dive Course 2-DAY/1-NIGHT
Tour Type: 2 & 3 Day Options | Operates: Daily | Departs: 8.30am | Returns: 4.30pm | Transfers: Cairns city included
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Further Your Dive Education with the PADI Advanced Dive Certification, Course Includes: Deep Deep, Navigation Dive, Night Dive, Peak Performance Buoyancy + 1-Elective Dive + 1-Fun Dive. Enjoy this 2-Day/1-Night or 3-Day/2-Night Liveaboard.
| AVAILABLE ON THIS TOUR: | |
|---|---|
| Scuba Diving Course: Yes, PADI Advanced Dive Course | All Snorkel & Dive Gear: Full Dive Gear, Wetsuit, Fins, Mask, BCD, Regs, Dive Computer |
| Meals: Yes, Breakfast, Lunch, Afternoon Tea & Dinner | Liveaboard: Yes, 2-Day/3-Day or 4-Day Trips! |
| All Learning Material: Yes, Included | Hot Showers Yes, Private Bathrooms in Each Room |
| Underwater Photographer Friendly: Yes, Camera Bucket and Camera Area Available | Outer Reef: Yes, Norman, Saxon and Hastings Reef Systems! |
If you already have an Open Water Dive License and want to learn more about scuba diving, taking your skills to the next level, then an Advanced Open Water Course is for you. This is the next step in your scuba diving adventures and training. The Advanced Open Water Course includes some key core modules, such as: Deep Diving; Night Diving; Underwater Navigation. In addition, to these core modules, you can tailor your Advanced Open Water Course to suit your interests, with courses available in: Peak Performance Buoyancy; Boat Diving; Search and Recovery; Underwater Naturalist; Underwater Photography; AWARE Fish Identification.
Deep Sea Divers Den has been operating in Cairns for over 30 years, making them one of the longest established dive companies in town. Recognised as a PADI 5 Star Instructor Development Centre, Deep Sea Divers Den offers the PADI Advanced Open Water Course on its Great Barrier Reef liveaboard boat, off Cairns. This course can be booked as a 2 or 3 day liveaboard option with participants able to choose between Quad Share, Twin and Double cabins (price varies), allowing you to tailor the course to suit your itinerary and budget. Please see the itinerary and prices tabs below for more information.
The Deep Sea Divers Den Advanced Open Water Course has daily departures. This is thanks to Deep Sea Divers Den having a day tour boat and liveaboard boat. The liveaboard boat sleeps a maximum of 30 guests (first in best dressed for cabin allocations) with hot freshwater showers on board and high crew to guest ratio.
During your stay at sea, the liveaboard boat will move to different locations around the Great Barrier Reef, allowing you to explore different sites each day. All meals, accommodation and linen are included in the course price. There is no internet on board, but if you have a Telstra phone these usually get a signal. There is also a licensed bar (drinks not included).
NITROX COURSE – Optional Extra: Want to take your diving further? Add a Nitrox course to the 3-Day/2-Night Advanced Course. Includes the 2 x Training dives on Nitrox to get you certified. Any further fun dives Nitrox fills are available at $15.00 per dive. See price table below.
All prices in Australian Dollars:
| CHOOSE OPTION | INCLUDES | PRICE | DIVES |
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| 3-Day/2-Night - TWIN Share Room | PADI Advanced Dive Course | $1,285.00 | 10 |
| 2-Day/1-Night - TWIN Share Room | PADI Advanced Dive Course | $1,020.00 | 6 |
Itinerary:
The Deep Sea Divers Den Advanced Open Water Courses are very itinerary friendly, starting any day of the week, pending demand. It includes all instruction (with professional PADI dive instructors), diving manuals and equipment, transfers to and from your accommodation and the Great Barrier Reef.
This course can be booked as a 2 day / 1 night or 3 day / 2 night option. All training dives and course instruction is completed in the first two days (which will be the same, regardless of which option you book): the three day option includes one extra day of pleasure diving. See more notes on this in the itinerary below (day 1 is the same for either booking).
DAY 1 – CAIRNS TO GREAT BARRIER REEF:
Transfers from Cairns city accommodation is included in your course cost: these commence at around 7.45am. The coach will take you to Deep Sea Divers Den’s Cairns office on Draper Street, where check-in and any final payments (reef tax) are made and boarding passes are issued: from there, the coach takes you over to Marlin Marina (a five minute drive). Boarding their day boat, which is a fast and comfortable catamaran, enjoy some complimentary tea and coffee before the 8.45am departure from Cairns. It’s a 90-minute transfer to the Great Barrier Reef and during this time, you will meet with the on-board PADI dive instructors. There’s diving on board the day boat today, before your transfer to the liveaboard boat at 2.30pm.
The transfer is completed quickly and easily, with guests just stepping over from one boat to the next. You are welcomed aboard the new boat and given an overview of the vessel and allocated your cabin number. After dropping your bags into the cabin, it’s straight into the water for training dives as a part of your Advanced Open Water Course. Dinner is served at 6pm and after that, there’s a night dive, before dessert is served to end the day.
DAY 2 – GREAT BARRIER REEF:
Wake up early on the Great Barrier Reef! There’s three dives this morning, and assuming you meet and pass all of the criteria and skill tests set by your PADI Advanced Open Water Dive Instructor, you will have completed your course before lunch.
2 DAY / 1 NIGHT COURSE: For those that have booked the 2 day / 1 night option, you will be out of the water by 11.30am, giving you time for a freshwater shower and to pack-up your cabin before lunch is served at 12.30pm. After lunch, you can chill out in the air-conditioned interior or on the exterior sundecks for a few hours. The day boat collects you around 2.30pm, departing the Great Barrier Reef for its return to Cairns at 3pm. Pending weather and conditions, you should arrive back into town at 4.30pm, with coach transfers back to your accommodation. This completes your 2 day / 1 night Deep Sea Divers Den Advanced Open Water Course.
3 DAY / 2 NIGHT COURSE: Lunch is served at 12.30pm and then you’ve got a couple of hours to just relax, while the liveaboard boat moves to a new reef site. You can have a sleep in your cabin, relax in the air-conditioned interior or enjoy some time on the exterior sun deck. During this time, the day boat will stop off and drop off new guests, while picking up any departing guests. Everyone is allowed back into the water from 3.30pm for more diving and snorkelling: there’s 2.5 hours until dinner is served at 6pm. There is the option for another night dive tonight, which is followed by dessert being served from 8pm.
DAY 3 – GREAT BARRIER REEF TO CAIRNS:
A morning of diving the Great Barrier Reef as an Advanced Open Water scuba diver. There is the chance to complete up to three (3) dives this morning, but you can do as many, or as few of these, as you like. The first dive is at 6.30am and is a highly recommended way to start the day! This is the time when you can see the marine life changing shifts, the night time hunters are all retiring for the day, while the day time fishes are just starting to become more active. In particular, watch out for large schools of Bumphead Parrotfish, fast moving Trevally and the always striking Lionfish.
You will be out of the water today no later than 11.30am, giving you time for a freshwater shower and to pack-up your cabin before lunch is served at 12.30pm. After lunch, chill out in the air-conditioned interior or on the exterior sundecks for a few hours, before the day boat collects you around 2.30pm, to take you back to Cairns. Pending weather and conditions, you should arrive back into town at 4.30pm, with coach transfers back to your accommodation. This completes your 3 day / 2 night Deep Sea Divers Den Advanced Open Water Course.
Diving:
You must already have an Open Water Dive Certification to book an Advanced Open Water Course. Deep Sea Divers Den will ask to see evidence of this, being your existing Dive License and a copy of your current Log Book.
The PADI Advanced Open Water Course is internationally recognised. At Deep Sea Divers Den, the course includes four core modules (navigation diving; night diving; deep diving; peak performance buoyancy) with participants able to choose from one of the following for the final module: boat diving; search and recovery; underwater naturalist; underwater photography; AWARE fish identification.
On successful completion of the core modules, you will have the theoretical knowledge and practical skills you need to dive anywhere in the world to a maximum depth of 40m, when diving with a buddy. In addition, you will have learnt to navigate under the water (always helpful when finding the boat) and the core skills and techniques required for night diving / diving with limited visibility and practising peak performance buoyancy. You will also have learnt another skill, depending on what speciality module you selected with your PADI Instructor. At completion, you are not certified for solo diving.
All dive training is completed at sea, on the Great Barrier Reef and all manuals, equipment and instruction is included in the course price.
The number of scuba dives you will complete, depends on which course you book: please see below. Each of these options includes the mandatory 5 training dives (one for each module) which are completed as a part of the course.
- 2 day / 1 night Course: up to 6 dives, including 1 night dive.
- 3 day / 2 night Course: up to 10 dives, including 2 night dives.
Snorkeling:
In between dives you can snorkel as much as you like. All snorkel gear is also provided.
Customer Reviews:
CUSTOMER TOUR REVIEWS & FEEDBACK
Customer reviews are written by our customers using our 1 x FREE Digital Underwater Camera Hire Service. Remember to collect our camera you do need to come into our shop the day before departure day before 5:30 pm to pick up the camera. You also need to supply your own SD camera card.
By: Jilly
Staff Service - 5 out of 5
Reef Quality - 4 out of 5
Vaue For Money - 4 out of 5
Overall Rating - 4 out of 5
Travelled on: 27/10/2013
Spent just one night aboard, wish we could have stayed longer but still well worth it. The staff were incredibly friendly, always knew our names and were keen to help. Managed to squeeze loads of dives in a short space of time including a night shark dive which was breathtaking. Would definitely recommend it, even if it’s just to play with Wally!
By: Will
Staff Service - 5 out of 5
Reef Quality - 4 out of 5
Vaue For Money - 5 out of 5
Overall Rating - 5 out of 5
Travelled on: 19/10/2013
This trip was our first overnight diving adventure and it lived up to expectation. The reef sites were full of sea life and color. The food and accommodation was perfect after 4-5 dives and everything was well laid out and explained by the dive master. This is by no means a 5 star vessel but when the focus is on diving who cares that you…
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Deep Sea Diver’s Den provides affordable, comfortable overnight dive trips from Cairns to the Great Barrier Reef. There are daily departures, thanks to SeaQuest, and OceanQuest is suitable for certified divers and snorkelers. Non-divers will enjoy the spacious, communal spaces and divers can look forward to excellent diving on varied Great Barrier Reef dive sites....
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Remember to try any form of scuba diving everyone needs to be medically fit with no asthma and not be taking any prescription medication. PADI recommends allowing up to 24 hours after diving before flying in an airplane. Some tour operators have a no refund policy for any dives not completed for whatever reason. Please note the art of freediving is not permitted on any of the day boats or liveaboard dive boats from Cairns & Port Douglas. With the high instances of (shallow water blackout) companies do not allow this for safety reasons. It is highly recommended that passengers take out full comprehensive travel insurance for all tours and travel arrangements.
Do you have Medical Issues:
Please note if you have any medical issues you will need to go see your local GP where you live and get them to write you a letter on the practice letterhead signed and dated by your doctor that you are “Fit to dive” If you have one of these letters then all dive companies in Cairns will take you diving. Please note these letters are only valid for three months from their date of issue.
Please Note: Double Room and TWIN Rooms are based on 2 people. So if you want the room to yourself it is twice the price.
Please Note: Night Dives are weather dependant and can sometimes be canceled due to safety. Please Note: there is no refund on dives not completed.
Please Note: Guided Dives are charged at $20 per person per dive. This can be organized on the boat.
Inclusions: Accommodation on board in choice of quad, twin, double ensuite or stateroom cabins, Air Fills, Bed Linen, Fresh Showers, Cairns City Accommodation Transfers, All quality diving and snorkelling equipment including wetsuits, All meals whilst on board, Tea – Coffee & Chilled water all day, 2 Locations per day on the Outer Reef.
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FREE UNDERWATER CAMERA HIRE*
Spend over $550.00 AUD on your Great Barrier Reef tour with us and receive the latest Digital Underwater Camera Hire. Take amazing High-Resolution images and 1080 HD Video. Only when you book online thru our website.
Not available for any tours to the Islands as fine white sand damages the seals on the cameras and makes them leak!
You need to come into our shop located on the Cairns Esplanade the day before departure to pick up the camera before 5:30 pm. You also need to supply your own SD Camera Card and drop the camera off back at our shop before 5:30pm.
Please Remember there is no other way to collect our cameras! All passengers must come into our shop the day before departure day before 5:30 pm.