Build confidence and skills with five adventure dives, including deep and underwater navigation. The PADI Advanced Open Water course opens deeper sites and new specialties; materials, equipment and hotel pickup included.
The PADI Advanced Open Water course builds your skills over five 'adventure dives' across about two days. Two are core — Deep (to a maximum of 30 m) and Underwater Navigation — and you choose three more from options like Wreck, Night, Drift, Peak Performance Buoyancy or Enriched Air. There's no long exam; you learn by doing, guided by an instructor, and come out a more confident, capable diver certified to 30 metres.
You need to be a certified Open Water Diver (or equivalent) to enrol. Choosing Deep and Wreck as adventure dives is popular in Hurghada thanks to the region's famous wrecks.
Many divers combine the Advanced Open Water course with the Enriched Air (Nitrox) specialty on the same trip, which extends bottom times on the deeper adventure dives. Once certified to 30 metres you can also join our Thistlegorm and Abu Nuhas wreck trips.
Advanced certification (with the Deep dive) lets you dive to 30 m, which opens up most of Hurghada's wrecks and deeper reefs.
No — Advanced is practical. You complete short knowledge reviews for each adventure dive and learn mainly in the water.
Deep and Navigation are required; Wreck, Night and Enriched Air are popular choices here — your instructor will help you pick.
