Course overview

Build on your skills with the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course on Bangaram Island, completing five adventure dives across the lagoon reefs and outer slopes of remote Lakshadweep. You go deeper, refine your navigation and sample specialties such as deep and underwater navigation in calm, clear 27-30C water. This scuba diving dive course earns you the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver certification and clearance to dive to 30 metres.

What you’ll learn

Prerequisites

What's included · What's not

Included
  • Five adventure dives including Deep and Underwater Navigation
  • Three elective adventure dives (e.g. Peak Performance Buoyancy, Night, Wreck)
  • Knowledge development for each adventure dive
  • Dive-planning and skill-development workshops
  • Equipment use and dive-leadership awareness
  • PADI Advanced Open Water materials and digital learning
  • PADI Advanced Open Water Diver certification on completion
Not included
  • Flights and airport transfers
  • Accommodation
  • Travel insurance
  • Personal expenses
  • Gratuities

The PADI Advanced Open Water pathway

PADI Advanced Open Water requires five adventure dives, of which Deep and Underwater Navigation are mandatory, and certifies you to dive to 30 metres. Each adventure dive credits toward the corresponding full specialty course.

Where you'll dive in Bangaram Island

Adventure dives span Bangaram's shallow lagoon reefs and deeper outer slopes, where reef sharks, turtles, eagle rays and schooling fish reward divers in the calm, high-visibility October-to-May season.

Prefer a different certifying agency?SSI Advanced Open Water in Bangaram Island →

Not included? Sort the rest of your trip

Flights and accommodation aren’t part of the course price, here’s how to book them around your dates.

Getting there

Fly into Agatti (AGX) · 1-3 hours from India.

Where to stay

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