Cairns Dive Adventures

Duration: 3 days & 2 nights | Operates: Year round
Certification Reqd: Open Water Diver License
Departs: 8am Daily (transfer to liveaboard)
Returns: 4.30pm Daily (transfer back to Cairns)
Transfers available: Yes, free from all Cairns City Hotels

If you already have your Open Water Diver License and want to kick it up a notch on the Great Barrier Reef, then this course is perfect for you.  The Cairns Dive Centre Advanced Dive Course is designed to increase confidence and enhance your scuba diving skills, allowing even greater underwater exploration and enjoyment.  Core dive skills you’ll learn during this three day, two night course include underwater navigation, deeper water diving (anywhere from 18-30 metres) and night dives.  An additional two skills can be learnt, with a choice between search and recovery diving, boat diving, photography and underwater naturalist.  The best part being, you can tailor your Advanced Dive Course to suit your interests.

Cairns Dive Centre provides daily departures for this course thanks to their live aboard dive vessel M.V Kangaroo Explorer being permanently at sea.  There is a maximum of 38 overnight guests aboard M.V Kangaroo Explorer, ensuring you will enjoy plenty of space and an excellent crew to guest ratio.  All meals and dive equipment are included.

Highlights & Inclusions

• Advanced Dive Course
• 3 days & 2 nights, live aboard dive trip
• 10 Great Barrier Reef dives, including 2 night dives
• 3 Outer Great Barrier Reef dive locations
• All dive equipment, including wetsuits and computers
• Spacious dive deck and facilities
• Chef prepared meals
• All linen, excluding towels

Cairns Dive Centre is an accredited SSI training centre with excellent facilities and staff.  Their Advanced Dive Courses start daily and are designed to provide Open Water Divers with the opportunity to learn new scuba diving skills on the Great Barrier Reef.  This three day, two night course includes a total of 10 scuba dives on the Great Barrier Reef with accredited instructors teaching you underwater navigation, deep diving and night diving.  You can then choose from two other areas of interest, including naturalist diving, multi-level diving and search and recovery of an object, to complete your portfolio of advanced scuba diving skills.   Underwater navigation will teach you natural navigation without a compass, navigation patterns and how to estimate distance underwater. Deeper water diving teaches you the special skills and knowledge you need to take your dive deeper, not an essential skill for the Great Barrier Reef but excellent for wreck diving.  Meantime, night diving the Great Barrier Reef gives you a completely different perspective of this nature’s paradise.  See fish sleeping, crayfish exploring and vibrant coral colours under the beam of your underwater torch. Complete this course aboard Cairns Dive Centre’s M.V. Kangaroo Explorer, a modern 35m catamaran with 16 cabins, a spacious dive deck, sun deck and air-conditioned lounges.

Medical Notes

• You must already have an Open Water Diver License to complete this course.
• We recommend you do not fly for at least 24 hours after your last dive.