PADI Junior Advanced Open Water Course Malta - Ages 12 to 15
The PADI Junior Advanced Open Water course is for young divers aged 12 to 15. It is identical to the PADI Advanced Open Water course, but with the maximum depth restricted to 21 metres for this age group. On reaching 15, the depth limit is lifted, allowing your child to dive to 30 metres.
We run these courses all year round, so you are welcome to book a start date on any day that fits your travel plans. Please allow two to three days to complete the course. It fits easily into a short-break holiday, but please remember to leave 18 hours between the last dive and the flight home. As we complete the two elective dives in a day and are out of the water by 13:00 at the latest, you can use that to check your return flight the following day complies with the 18-hour surface interval.
What does the course involve?
This course is almost all diving and very little theory. It is made up of five dives: the two core dives, Navigation and Deep, plus three more chosen from a list of elective dives, so your child experiences as many different types of diving as possible.
Elective dives include Wreck, Naturalist, Fish ID, Peak Performance Buoyancy, Search and Recovery, Night (€35 extra), Nitrox (€5 extra), Boat (€35 extra) and Underwater Digital Photography (€25 for camera hire). The theory is completed online before arrival. There is no exam and no confined-water work, just five dives with some skills to complete along the way.
It is a genuinely fun course, full of new experiences and extra supervised time underwater, and completing the more demanding tasks is a real confidence boost for a young diver. If your child has not dived for a while, we recommend a shakedown dive with us first, to refresh their skills and get comfortable and well weighted in the water before starting the new skills.
Course requirements
Proof of PADI Junior Open Water Diver certification.
What's included
Tuition, all equipment hire, and transport to and from the dive sites.
Extras
Accommodation
We can arrange accommodation to go with this course. Just email us your travel dates and we will send you a quote.
