PADI Advanced Open Water Course — Hurghada
PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course in Hurghada
Already Open Water certified? Take it further with five adventure dives — deep, navigation and three of your choice (wreck, drift or fish ID among them) — building real experience with a PADI instructor at your side the whole way. Learning together saves money: 2 persons pay €466 total, 3 persons €671 total.
More About This Trip
The Advanced Open Water course is where diving gets properly interesting. There is no classroom exam and no pool — the entire course is five real adventure dives over two days, each one introducing a new type of diving under your instructor's guidance, with short knowledge reviews between dives.
Two of the five dives are fixed because they matter most. The deep adventure dive takes you below 18 metres for the first time — down to a maximum of 30 — where you learn how depth changes your air consumption, your colours and your thinking. The underwater navigation dive teaches compass runs and natural navigation, the skill that turns you from a follower into a diver who always knows the way home. The remaining three dives are chosen together with your instructor from options such as wreck diving on the local minesweeper, drift diving along the marine park walls, peak performance buoyancy, night diving, fish identification and underwater photography — Hurghada's site variety means every option is taught on a reef that suits it perfectly.
The certification extends your licence to 30 metres and is the gateway requirement for the Rescue Diver course and most famous deep sites worldwide. The minimum age is 12, and the only prerequisite is an Open Water certification from PADI or an equivalent organisation. Equipment, materials, certification fee, lunches and Hurghada transfers are all included; two persons training together pay €466 total, three persons €671 total.
Highlights
What's Included
- Full dive equipment
- PADI instructor & course materials
- PADI certification fee
- Lunch, coffee, tea, water & soft drinks on board
- Free hotel transfer from/to all hotels within Hurghada
- Dive Safe Package — medical care from licensed physicians before, during and after your trip — and a fitness check before you dive whenever you would like one. No extra cost.
Not Included
- Marine park entrance fee (€5 per person per day)
- Hotel transfer for Makadi Bay, Sahl Hasheesh & El Gouna: €20 per day per car
Dive Safe Package — medical care is on us
Diving with us includes medical care from licensed physicians — before your dive, on the day, and after your trip has ended. If anything comes up once you are back at your hotel, you are still ours to look after: call us and we arrange the doctor, at no extra cost.
A dive medical fitness check before you get in the water is entirely up to you. Some divers simply like the reassurance — say the word and we arrange it with a licensed physician at no extra cost, whenever suits you. And if the physician advises against diving, we refund your booking in full.
This is the whole price
The PADI certification fee is already inside the price above — along with your equipment, instructor and course materials. Worth checking before you compare: some dive centres quote the course on its own and add the manual and certification at the desk, typically €90–€130. Others include it, as we do. So compare what each price covers, not just the number.
What is genuinely not included is listed above, in full — nothing else is added at the boat.
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Dive sites in this area
Reefs this trip may visit. The captain chooses each day's sites by wind, current and conditions on the morning — so treat this as the area, not a schedule.
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