What is a PADI Adventure Dive?
PADI Adventure dives are a great way to gain experience in a new dive environment under the watchful eye of your specialized PADI Instructor. Adventure dives can also make training easier for the travelling diver whose time may be limited moving from place to place. Any adventure dive completed with a PADI Instructor counts as one of the dives towards your advanced open water course, a great way to build experience and get training from specialists in each unique area like the Yongala ‘wreck’ experience.
Who can complete PADI Adventure Dives.?
Anybody with a PADI Open Water certificate or equivalent (and a minimum of 6 dives). You will be required to make the Deep adventure dive as your first dive on the Yongala, during the dive you will be looked after by a highly experienced PADI instructor who is also an expert on diving the Yongala.
At Yongala dive we specialize in the following adventure dives; Deep, Wreck, Boat, Multi Level, Enriched Air (Nitrox), Aware Fish ID, Naturalist and Underwater Digital Photography.
Most divers strive to become PADI Advanced open water diver’s; this means they will be required to do the Deep and Navigation dives plus any other 3 adventure dives from the options available. (visit our advanced course page for more details)
What happens during the Deep Adventure Dive..?
The idea of this adventure dive experience is not to make you an expert in deep diving, it is designed to give you a better understanding and advance your dive skills to enable you to dive up to 30 metres max.
You will need to complete some basic skills on your dive with your PADI Instructor (listed below), you will also read the ‘deep diver’ section from the PADI Adventures in Diving manual and complete a knowledge review. It is your Instructor’s job (as with your initial diver training) to guide you and help you develop any new skills and techniques required to dive deep, safely, at the specialist dive site of the Yongala.
Skills Overview (completed during the dive)
- Briefing, assembling and positioning Emergency Equipment
- Suiting Up & Predive Safety Check (BWRAF)
- Entry & Descent
- Compare depth gauge and Changes in Color at Surface and at Depth
- Guided Tour then Ascent – Safety Stop
- Debrief & Knowledge Review, Log Dive – Complete Training Record
The underwater comparison skills will take approximately 5 mins, the rest of the dive will be free for a guided tour under the watchful eye of your specialized PADI Instructor.
How long will it take and what’s covered in the cost..?
- Approx 45 minutes to read a section in the manual & complete the knowledge review (nitrox takes a little longer)
- The skills are completed during your dives on the S.S. YONGALA wreck
Cost: $25 (Nitrox – $50)
