Advanced Scuba Diving Courses
Improve your driving skills thanks to Blue Lagoon Divers’ advanced scuba diving courses specifically thought for you! Learn new things about Symi underwater world and enjoy exclusive experiences with our advanced scuba diving courses.
Advanced Open Water Course
Only available for certified divers. This scuba diving course will give you the chance to experience a different way of diving while developing professional skills. Advanced Open Water Course‘s options range from visiting our local wrecks to learning techniques even used in underwater photography by experienced scuba dive masters.
This course takes place over 5 adventurous dives and can be split up to suit your schedule.
What’s involved?
There are 2 mandatory adventurous dives in the Advanced Open Water Course. These are Deep Diving and Underwater Navigation. You can choose the following three between:
-Underwater Digital Imaging
-Peak Performance Buoyancy
-Fish Identification
-Wreck Diving
-Underwater Naturalist
-Boat Diving
-Night Diving
-Search and Recovery
Upon completion, you will be qualified to dive to a depth of 30m with a dive buddy worldwide. The total price for this course is €395.
What’s included?
- Snacks and Drinks whilst your diving with us
- All equipment rental
- Transportation
- Certification fees to PADI
Also, you can complete all the required studying in the comfort of your own house and then just start diving once you’ll arrive on the island. Click the following link to download the materials you must study to apply for the course, here.
What will you learn?
What you learn depends on what interests you, but thanks to this course, you will become a professional diver!
Prerequisites
- Must be 15 years or older.
- Must be certified as an Open Water Diver.
What’s next?
Keep diving and keep learning. The diving doesn’t stop at this point.
You can opt to do the Rescue Course to help manage problems underwater or on land.
You could even try something more technical like a different form of diving, such as side-mount where you learn to carry more cylinders.
Scuba Diving Specialized Courses
These Specialized Courses are focused lessons dedicated to teach you a new way of diving or becoming a master at a certain aspect of scuba diving itself.
There is a wide range of available specialized courses from learning to dive side-mount, dive deep, dive on enriched air Nitrox, and night diving, to provide 02 in emergencies, solo diving, or perfecting buoyancy control.
What’s involved?
Depending on the course you choose, there will be between 3-4 dives involved in learning the different aspects of each kind of diving. Some courses are exclusively “dry” courses and many involve learning through a teaching presentation set up at the dive center.
What’s included?
- Snacks and Drinks whilst your diving with us
- All equipment rental
- Transportation
- Certification fees to PADI
What will you learn?
What you’ll learn depends entirely on the course you’ll do, but whatever it is, it allows you access to different dive sites around the world, longer bottom time, or just a deeper level of knowledge than most other divers.
Prerequisites
- Must be certified as an Open Water Diver.
What’s next?
Mastering 5 different specialties of diving gives you access to the coveted Master Diver Certification. Be a pier amongst your fellow divers and someone they will look up to and come to for advices.
Rescue Diver Course
The PADI Rescue Diver Course will expand your knowledge and experience beyond purely recreational diving because you’ll learn to look beyond yourself and consider the safety and wellbeing of other divers. Whilst this scuba diving course is of a serious nature, it’s an enjoyable experience and a great way to build your confidence.
The course takes place over 5-7 dives and is a fairly intensive but hugely rewarding course.
What’s involved?
The rescue diver course will teach you to deal with exhausted, panicked, and unresponsive divers both under the water and on the surface. You will build on techniques learned in previous medical training courses and learn to apply them to in-water situations.
What’s included?
- Snacks and Drinks whilst your diving with us
- All equipment rental
- Transportation
- Certification fees to PADI
What will you learn?
• Self-rescue and diver stress
• Dive first aid
• Emergency management and equipment
• Swimming and non-swimming assists
• Panicked diver response
• Underwater problems
• Missing diver procedures
• Surfacing the unconscious diver
• In-water artificial respiration
• Egress (exits)
• First aid procedures for pressure-related accidents
• Dive accident scenarios
Prerequisites
- Must be qualified as a PADI Advanced Open Water diver or equivalent.
- Must have a valid Emergancy First Aid Certification or training within the last 12 months.
What’s next?
The Rescue Diver Certification is a prerequisite for all PADI Professional level courses, beginning with the PADI Divemaster certification.
Dive Master Course
Working closely with a PADI Instructor as a mentor, you’ll expand your diving knowledge while sharpening your skills. PADI Divemaster training develops your leadership abilities by training you to supervise scuba diving activities and assist instructors with student divers. You’ll be expected to act as one of the team, by behaving responsibly and safely with students to demonstrate ‘role model’ behavior.
Once qualified, your work can take you all over the world, doing what you love and getting paid for it.
It’s definitely the toughest scuba diving advanced course, you’ll be expected to be proactive in your learning, independent in self-study, and physically fit.
The course takes place over 1 month and is an intensive but hugely rewarding experience.
There is also an option to take part in the internship program, where the shop will sponsor the course for you. More details can be found here:
Dive Master Internship Program
Our Divemaster Internship Program is for non-professional divers who want to pursue a career in the recreational scuba diving industry.
The program will qualify you at the end of the season as a PADI Divemaster – the first professional level qualification. Our program works like this: in exchange for working for us for the summer season, our interns get their dive education – all the way up to PADI Divemaster for free.
Duties of a Divemaster intern include all aspects of the dive industry from assisting on the dive boat with courses and guided dives, filling scuba tanks, servicing equipment, and equipping divers, to working in the dive shop in sales or office duties. As their education progresses, interns take on duties such as leading groups of qualified divers and assisting instructors with courses.
Our interns gain, in addition to many dives by the end of the season, a valuable insight into this industry and experience in dealing with customers including qualified divers, course students, and beginners. We ensure that when our interns leave our program, they are fully qualified and experienced, ready to work anywhere in the world as professional scuba divers.
The learning curve for the courses is quite steep and there’s quite a lot of theory to study in addition to the day-to-day job, so self-motivation is essential. In addition to diving experience, desirable – though not essential – attributes of interns are a full driving license, spoken European languages, media, design and computer skills, and sales/retail skills.
You should know from the start that the hours in this industry are long and the work is sometimes hard, but if you have a passion for scuba diving and working with people, the rewards are immeasurable. If your goal is a career in the recreational scuba diving industry, this internship will teach you everything you need to know and more.
Interns will need to pay their own travel costs to Greece.
At the end of the season, we will always offer to hire Divemasters who fit well with the team!
What’s involved?
The Dive Master Course will teach to you to deal with exhausted, panicked, and unresponsive divers both under the water and on the surface. You will build on techniques learned in previous medical training courses and learn to apply them during in-water situations.
What’s included?
- Snacks and Drinks whilst your diving with us
- All equipment rental
- Transportation
- Certification fees to PADI
What will you learn?
• Self-rescue and diver stress
• dive first aid
• emergency management and equipment
• swimming and non-swimming assists
• panicked diver response
• underwater problems
• missing diver procedures
• surfacing the unconscious diver
• in-water artificial respiration
• egress (exits)
• first aid procedures for pressure related accidents
• dive accident scenarios
Prerequisites
- Must be qualified as a PADI Advanced Open Water diver or equivalent.
- Must have a valid Emergancy First Aid Certification or training within the last 12 months.
