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PADI Advanced Course
The Advanced is great for widening your skill and knowledge base as a diver or excellent for those of you who still don't feel 100% confident in diving without the supervision of an instructor. This course will give you the opportunity to gain that much needed confidence as well as being a whole lot of fun. It is also a useful course for those of you who wish to expand your dive repertoire to include diving in deep water, on wrecks night diving, navigational diving or search and recovery This allows you greater access to some awesome dive sites both in New Zealand and overseas such as the Rainbow Warrior, the Ellingamite, Northern Arch, President Coolidge, Titanic etc. The advanced course also offers you the great advantage of being the next steppingstone towards a potential career in diving. From advanced certification you can progress on to your rescue divers, dive masters, and even as far as your instructors certification as well as many other specialty dive courses. All of these are great qualifications to have for those of you who may wish to travel and work in some fairly exotic locations, or expand your employment potential in New Zealand. Unlike your PADI Open Water Course, you can obtain certification as an Advanced Diver in one week, this allows you to keep your time investment minimal. The course involves one evening in the classroom where you will discuss the requirements for the weekend and learn the theory involved in the dives you will undertake.
The second part of the course is a weekend away. Locations for this may vary but at present we are running them at the Alderman Islands off Tairua at Coromandal and the Poor Knights. Your Course Includes: Five dives including, deep, navigation and search and recovery. The price of the course also includes your Adventure diving manual and certification as an Advanced Open Water Diver. If you completed your openwater course outside N.Z. you will need to get a dive medical signed by a doctor.
Your Course Does Not Include: Transport (we car pool), dive equipment for the weekend (we can hire you dive equipment inc. wetsuit and weight belt - two days hire for the price of one). Rental if needed will be $70 including tanks.
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Orakei Dive Terms and Conditions. Please read the following carefully.
I understand I have signed up for a dive course running on specific dates. Failure to attend or complete the course I have applied for may incur extra costs.
Cancellations and
Transfers of course date received more than 14 days before the course
will receive a full refund as long as all manuals etc returned unused.
Cancellations and transfers received 7 to 14 days before the course will
receive a partial refund at the discretion of the shop. Cancellations
and transfers received less than 7 days before the course will receive
no refund at the discretion of the shop. No refunds of any monies paid
will be given once a course has started. A course is deemed to start on
commencement of training.
Lost or damaged equipment (caused by student) must be paid for
by the student.
Orakei Dive reserves the right to vary or cancel, at their discretion,
a course or its content, where the circumstances or weather necessitate.
Homework: I understand there may be study required before the course
starts. In the case of the advanced course this means reading the appropriate
parts of the manual (see us about that), and doing the reqired quizzes
at the back of each module. If just one person hasn't done their homework
it will add hours onto the length of the course. Don't worry if you don't
understand something, we will go over it in the classroom.
