Advanced Open Water Classes
For the Adventure of a Lifetime, and a Lifetime of Adventure!
Ready for the next adventure?
Tulum Diving Center offers several options in our Advanced Open Water Diver Course. Join our standard weekly program, or choose your own dives through our Private Advanced Classes. You can join the full Advanced Course, the Adventure Diver Course or even just join us for any of the individual Adventure Dives that count toward the Advanced Open Water Certification.
PADI Advanced Open Water Course
This is our standard group Advanced Open Water Diver Course The Course is an experience oriented program designed to give you practical experience in a number of specialty diving areas.
This course is conducted off our custom built 35 foot dive boat.
You will begin an eLearning program you can complete at home on your own schedule. Why waste your vacation time studying? The objective of the programs is to give you as much in water time as possible in which to perfect your diving skills, so once you join us in Tulum we will head straight to the water for 5 dives done over two days.
During the course we will begin teaching you the basics of
- Boat Diving
(or Cavern Diving at additional $80)
- Underwater Navigation
- Night diving
- Deep Diving
- Drift Diving
You will be amazed at how much more comfortable you will be underwater by the end of the course. Additionally, you will see some great diving along the way.
The course will be conducted off our custom built 35 foot dive boat on the Caribbean reefs offshore from Tulum.
You have the option to do a Cenote Cavern Dive as one of the dives for the course. You will get to experience the best of both worlds.
Cost with 5 Boat Dives: $425 US per diverMulti-Diver Disount: two or more divers joining together will get a 10% multi-diver discount off the cost of the course: $382.50 US per diver
Cost with 1 Cavern Dive & 4 Boat Dives: $505 US per diverMulti-Diver Disount: two or more divers joining together will get a 10% multi-diver discount off the cost of the course: $454.50 US per diver
Course Size: Maximum of 8 divers
Prerequisites: 12 years of age
18 years of age for the Cavern Dive
Click below to submit payment for this program via PayPal. Pricing includes our 10% multi-diver discount for groups of 2 or more.
Advanced Class:
- Boat Diving - Underwater Navigation - Night diving - Deep Diving - Drift Diving
Advanced Class with: - Cavern Diving (must be 18 years of age) - Underwater Navigation - Night diving - Deep Diving - Drift Diving
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Private PADI Advanced Courses
A group program not for you? Doesn’t fit your schedule? Want to choose your own dates or some different dives? We offer private courses for one to four divers.
The Advanced Course consists of five dives with Deep Diving and Navigation being required. In a private program we can include some optional dives other than those in our group program. Alternate dives available could be:
- Wreck Diving
- Cavern Diving
- Sidemount Diving
- Diver Propulsion Vehicle
- Underwater Photography
- Peak Performance Buoyancy
- Fish Identification
- Search and Recovery
You choose the dives and we will set up a course just for you
Cost: $625 US for one person(Private groups of 2 or more divers will receive our multi-diver 10% discount: $562.50 per person)
Private Group Size: 4 divers
If you have more than four divers in your group we can add additional Instructors and make more than one dive group for you. Just tell us what you need.
Prerequisites: 12 years of age
Click below to submit payment for this program via PayPal. Pricing includes our 10% multi-diver discount for groups of 2 or more.
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PADI Adventure Diver Course
Ready for more adventures, but not the full Advanced Course? Join us for the Adventure Diver Course.
The Adventure Diver Course can be complete in as little as one day. It consists of three of the Advanced Class dives. In our standard group program we will usually do Boat Diving, Navigation and Night Diving. Choose to do a private course, listed below, and we can be more flexible on the dives.
Get in a great day of diving and gain the Adventure Diver Certification. At a later time complete two more advanced Course dives and become an Advanced Certified Diver.
Cost: $325 US per person
(two or more divers joining together will get a 10% multi-diver discount off the cost of the course: $292.50 USD per diver)
Course Size: Maximum of 8 diversPrerequisites: 12 years of age Due to dive safety requirements, 10 & 11 year old kids cannot join this group program. Certain of the Adventure Dives they cannot do till older. We offer a variety of programs for the younger kids including an Advanced Course they can participate in. See our Kids programs Here
Click below to submit payment for this program via PayPal. Pricing includes our 10% multi-diver discount for groups of 2 or more.
Private PADI Adventure Diver Course
Don't want to join a group, or want to choose different dives, we can also offer you a private course for yourself or your small group.
It is a one or two day program depending upon which dives you choose. You let us know what dives you want to do and we will schedule it for you.
Cost: $425 USD for one person
(Private groups of 2 to 4 divers will receive our multi-diver 10% discount: $382.50 per diver
Prerequisite: 10 years of age
Click below to submit payment for this program via PayPal. Pricing includes our 10% multi-diver discount for groups of 2 or more.
Individual Adventure Dives
Don't have time to do the full course. You can participate in many of our individual Adventure Dives without doing the whole class. Each Adventure Dive will apply toward the Advanced Course as well as the corresponding Specialty Course. Contact us for more information about this option.
TulumDivingInfo@gmail.com
All our Advanced Class fees include all training, all elearning materials, use of all equipment, Oh yeah; and a ton of fun!
Please be advised that there are occasionally times when the ocean conditions are unsafe to dive and the Port Authority will close the ports and not allow dive boats to go out. In those rare instances we will complete your dive training in the cenotes.