What Will You Do During Your PADI Open Water Diver And Advanced Open Water Diver Course?

Padi Open Water Diver Course:


The Padi Open Water Diver Course program is designed to teach you how to dive safely during the 3 days where you have 5 confined water sessions in the swimming pool, 4 Open Water Dives from our own daytrip boat, the two first one at a maximum depth of 12 meters and the last two at 18 meters maximum.


You will complete some knowledge development in the classroom to learn the dive tables and how to plan your own dive. Throughout the course, you’ll learn the fundamentals of scuba diving, including dive equipment and techniques.


At the end of your course you will get a certification, which is valid throughout the world for the rest of your life. Now you are an independent diver.


Padi Advanced Open Water Course:


This certification includes five Adventure Dives, including the Deep Adventure Dive, the Underwater Navigator Adventure Dive and three of the following:

  • Boat Diver.
  • Drift Diver.
  • Deep Diver.
  • Multilevel Diver.
  • Night Diver.
  • Peak Performance Buoyancy.
  • Search and Recovery Diver.
  • Underwater Naturalist.
  • Underwater Photographer.
  • Underwater Navigator.
  • AWARE Fish Identification.
  • Wreck Diver.

What's Included In The PADI Open Water Diver And Advanced Open Water Diver Course Course?


At Scuba Cat, all our scuba diving courses include manuals and free scuba diving equipment rental. In addition we teach all of our diver level courses in small groups to ensure that you receive the attention that you deserve. All our courses are taught to PADI Standards.

  • 4 Days.
  • 9 Dives.
  • No hidden extras.

How Much Will The PADI Open Water Diver And Advanced Open Water Diver Course Cost?

Book now for the special offer price of 26,000 Baht!


Advanced with Enriched Air Nitrox speciality.

Already have the open water certification, you can move directly onto the advanced course and combine this with Enriched Air Nitrox.

Complete the 5 training dives for the Advanced Open Water course and add 2 dives on Enriched Air Nitrox.

Enriched Air Diver saves you time by allowing you to:

  • Stay underwater longer.
  • Get back into the water sooner.
  • Get your certification while simultaneously completing dives for other PADI courses.

Plus, by diving with Enriched Air Nitrox you may feel less tired after diving. For example, if you dive to 15 metres/50 feet on air, your no decompression limit is 80 minutes. But, diving on EANx36 gets you 220 minutes of no decompression time - an increase of 140 minutes! It's perfect for underwater photographers, wreck divers and anyone who wants to stay down longer.


What Do You Need To Start Your PADI Enriched Air Specialty Course?

You’ll learn the procedures and preparation necessary to safely dive using enriched air.

What's Included In The PADI Enriched Air Specialty Course?

At Scuba Cat Diving, Phuket, Thailand all our scuba diving courses include manuals and free scuba diving equipment rental. For the Enriched Air Diver program you'll receive the PADI Enriched Air Diver manual and use of a Nitrox computer.


In addition we teach all of our diver level courses in small groups to ensure that you receive the attention that you deserve. All our courses are taught to PADI Standards.


How Much Will The PADI Advanced and Enriched Air Specialty Courses Cost?

The Price for both Course is 21,000 Baht . Including manuals, equipment rental, 5 boat dives, certification and instructor fees.


A different option for our PADI course is on our liveaboard MV Scuba Adventure

PADI Open Water Diver Training – and PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Training Liveaboard Style

Without a doubt this is certainly the most convenient and enjoyable way to learn to dive or continue your training to new levels.

Spending time on the liveaboard allows getting to know your instructor much better as well as making the meeting many new diver friends a natural and enjoyable process. The amount of pertinent information and new insights gained will far exceed that which you have learned in the classroom and so much fun as well.


The convenience of being surrounded by dive sites and the efficiency of sleeping on the boat means that our courses always include extra diving! These extra dives are done at a much more relaxed pace than on the normal day trip schedule- win win.

To take part in the open water course you would need 1 day in the classroom and pool, then on the day of departure you would dive from our half day boat before joining the liveaboard. You will to complete 3 dives on the half day trip, which means even more dives on the course.

If you are on the boat for 3 days then you can go from never dived before to an Advanced diver with our special combination course, which is also at a special price.


Prices vary depending on which liveaboard you choose, for pricing please follow this link.

A full range of speciality diver ratings are available on board, contact us for more details.