SSI Advanced Open Water Diver Course in Lanzarote

Q: What are the requirements for the course?

You need to have an Open Water certification or an equivalent level from another agency(PADI,NAUI, u other). The minimum age for this course is 12 .

Q: Do I need to choose the 3 specialties before I arrive?

No. The course already includes 2 mandatory specialties : Deep Diving and Underwater Navigation . The other 3 specialties are chosen by you. If you already know which ones you want, perfect. If not, we’ll help you choose based on your level, your age, what you want to try and the type of diving that suits you best in Playa Blanca.

Q: How long does the course take?

The course usually takes 2 to 3 days , depending on the specialties you choose, your pace, and the sea conditions.

This Advanced Open Water course in Lanzarote is the next step for certified divers who want real experience, feel more comfortable underwater, and enjoy diving in new ways.

I Want to Do My Advanced Open Water

For Open Water divers or equivalent

Minimum age: 12 years old

2 to 3 days

Online theory

Equipment and insurance included

5 adventure dives

Up to 30 m depending on age

Your Open Water Was the Beginning. Your Next Step as a Diver Starts Here

An advanced scuba diving course to keep growing, try 5 specialties, and discover new ways to enjoy diving.

During the course, you will try different specialties and experiences, such as navigation, night diving, wreck diving or a deep dive adapted to your age and profile. The idea is to experience more underwater and not always stay in the same place.

It’s Not Just About the Certification. It’s About Feeling Like a Better Diver

Confidence

You try new specialties with proper guidance and a clear structure, so your confidence grows as you discover different ways of diving.

Experience

You improve your buoyancy control, your situational awareness, and the way you adapt to new depths, environments, and types of dives.

Control

You move with more ease, more precision, and better feelings underwater, even when you are outside what already felt familiar.

Enjoyment

The more comfortable and calm you feel underwater, the more you enjoy each dive and everything going on around you.

Real progress

It is not just another card. You finish the course with a very clear feeling that you have genuinely moved forward.

A real step up

It is one of those courses where you notice you are leaving the basics behind and starting to dive with more confidence in yourself and a different perspective.

A Great Place to Learn, Explore, and Enjoy Diving on a Different Level

One of the best things about doing your advanced diving course in Lanzarote is the setting itself. You have volcanic underwater landscapes, good visibility on many days, and the kind of diving that makes each dive feel a bit different.

Around Playa Blanca, there is a really good variety of dives. One day can feel calm and easy, and the next can bring something different. That works especially well on a course like this, where you are trying new specialties and discovering new ways of diving. And that is a big part of why doing it here feels so worthwhile. You are not only learning more. You are also enjoying the surroundings and feeling that each dive gives you something real.

This Is How Your SSI Advanced Open Water Diver Course in Lanzarote Works with Dawn Dives

You choose 3 specialties to try, plus Deep Diving and Underwater Navigation. This makes the course feel more personal and better suited to what you want to experience and improve as a diver.

You can go for specialties that feel more about exploration and excitement, like deep diving, night diving, or wreck diving, and combine them with others that help you gain more control and confidence, like navigation, buoyancy, or search and recovery.

The idea is simple: to build a course that makes sense for you.

Once you have chosen your specialties, you do the theory in MySSI.

You go through the content for each specialty and complete the knowledge review, so you arrive at each dive knowing what you are going to practise, what you need to pay attention to, and how to get more out of it.

The theory is not heavy, and it is not there just to give you more information for the sake of it. It is there so that, once you get in the water, everything makes more sense and each dive feels more useful.

The course includes 2 mandatory specialties: Deep Diving and Underwater Navigation. You also choose 3 more specialties to try, based on what you want to experience underwater and what you want to improve as a diver.

This keeps the experience personal, while giving the course a clear structure to help you progress with more control and confidence.

Some options may depend on your age. We will explain everything before you start, so you know what applies in your case.

The Diving Specialties You Can Try with Us in Lanzarote

These are some of the ones you can do with us at Dawn Dives:

Deep Diving

A required specialty for the certification, and a great way to explore another side of diving.

You learn to go deeper with more control, better planning, and a clearer understanding of what changes at depth.

Night Diving

A completely different experience. The light changes, the feeling changes, and the sea feels different too.

A great option if you want to try something new and feel more confident in different conditions.

Wreck Diving

For many divers, wrecks are some of the most exciting dives you can do.

You learn to explore them with more awareness and confidence, while enjoying structures full of history and marine life.

Underwater Photography

If you want better memories from your dives and more control with a camera.

You learn how light, colour, and distance change below the surface, and how to get better results.

Perfect Buoyancy

One of those specialties that makes a difference on every dive.

It helps you move better, use less energy, protect the seabed, and enjoy diving much more comfortably.

Scooter Diving, DPV

One of those specialties that makes a difference on every dive.

You learn to move better, use less energy, protect the seabed, and feel much more comfortable underwater.

Enriched Air (Nitrox)

If you want to get familiar with enriched air and understand when it makes sense to use it.

You learn how to plan dives with longer bottom time, less nitrogen absorption, and more comfort between dives.

What’s Included, What You Need, and How to Book

Price: 390 €

So you have it clear from the start, here is what matters most: what is included, what is not included, what you need to join, and how to secure your place.

Duration

The course usually takes 2 to 3 days, depending on the specialties you choose and your availability.

What’s included

Your Advanced Open Water Diver course is set up so you only need to focus on one thing: diving, learning, and enjoying it.

SSI Advanced Open Water Diver certification.
Access to MySSI and online study materials.
5 sea dives.
Full diving equipment for the whole course.
Dive computer.
DAN insurance during the course.
Transport to the dive site.
Pick up from your hotel or villa, in Playa Blanca only.
Dawn Dives Academy Lanzarote T shirt.
Water, tea, or coffee.

What’s not included

Just so everything is clear:

Meals and drinks.
Optional extras, such as photos or video. If you are interested, we will tell you beforehand and give you the price clearly.

What you need to do the course

Before starting, you only need to meet these points:

Have a previous diving certification, Open Water or equivalent.
Complete the diver medical questionnaire, which you can download here.
Be at least 12 years old*.

*Important: depth limits and some parts of the course are adapted according to age. From 12 to 14 years old, the deep dive component is limited to 21 m. The full Deep Diving specialty requires students to be 15.

I Want to Do My Advanced

How to secure your place

To confirm your course, we ask for a 50€ deposit.
The usual way is by bank transfer, although if it is easier for you, we can also send you a payment link for card payment.
The rest is paid when you arrive at the dive centre.

Your Advanced Diving Course at Dawn Dives: Well Guided, Done Properly

On a course like this, it is not only about what you do. It also matters a lot how it is taught and how you are guided through the whole process.

At Dawn Dives, we are an SSI Diamond Centre and an SSI Instructor Training Centre. We do not just train divers, we also train dive professionals. And that shows in the way we explain things, the way we correct small details, and the way we make each part of the course feel clear and worth doing.

You are not here just to tick off five dives and move on. You are here to do a course that is well guided, well organised, and taught by people who help you get the most out of it.We are based in Playa Blanca, inside the H10 Rubicon Horizons Collection, with our own facilities, well maintained equipment, and a stable team that knows the area really well.

The people who guide you through your Advanced Open Water

One of the nicest things about an Advanced Open Water course is that each dive opens a different door.

At Dawn Dives Academy, we like to run it with clear guidance, a good pace and that sense of calm that helps you make the most of every part of it.

Hervé

I like diving that is done calmly, with attention and with time to understand each step properly.

Pepe

Teaching has always been a very important part of my path in diving, and I still place a lot of value on seeing someone grow in confidence in the water.

Óscar

The sea has been with me for years, and I still get in the water with the same feeling as always: that it is where I feel best.

Rinus

For me, diving still has something very special, and even today I really value those courses where everything is learned naturally and without rushing.

Claudia

Staying close, explaining things simply and seeing someone become more comfortable in the water is still a very beautiful part of this job.

Learn more about us

What Our Students Value Most

At Dawn Dives, many students come for an advanced diving course and leave with more than just a certification: clear guidance, a better experience in the water, and the feeling that they really got the most out of every dive.

If you want to know what the experience with us is really like, the most useful thing is to read what other divers say after doing the course with us.

Cancellation and changes policy

So that everything is clear from the beginning, this is how we handle it:

If you cancel 24 hours or more in advance, we give you a full refund.
If you cancel with less than 24 hours’ notice, the booking is non-refundable.
If you have paid a deposit to secure your place on a course, that deposit is non-refundable.
If we need to cancel for safety reasons, sea conditions or organisational reasons, we give you a full refund.
If you do not want to cancel and only need to change the day, write to us as soon as possible and we will look for the best way to move it, depending on availability.

Si no quieres cancelar y solo necesitas cambiar de día, escríbenos cuanto antes y miramos la mejor forma de recolocarlo según disponibilidad.

FAQ´s About Your Advanced Diving Course in Lanzarote

We work with small groups, so there is real attention and you can get the most out of each specialty.

You need to have an Open Water certification or an equivalent level from another agency(PADI,NAUI, u other). The minimum age for this course is 12.

No. The course already includes 2 mandatory specialties: Deep Diving and Underwater Navigation. The other 3 specialties are chosen by you.

If you already know which ones you want, perfect. If not, we’ll help you choose based on your level, your age, what you want to try and the type of diving that suits you best in Playa Blanca.

The course usually takes 2 to 3 days, depending on the specialties you choose, your pace, and the sea conditions.

Many times, yes. If it has been a while since your last dive, we can look at it with you and tell you honestly whether this course makes sense for you now or whether it would be better to ease back in first.

We do the dives at sites around Playa Blanca and nearby areas, always choosing the most suitable place depending on the sea, the specialties, and the level of the group.

Safety comes first. If the conditions are not right, we reorganise the plan or change the order of the course so you can still get the most out of it.

MySSI theory is usually available in several languages. Normally, you can do it in Spanish, English, or French.

That depends on your pace and on the specialties you choose. The good thing is that the online theory lets you move forward at your own rhythm before or during the course. If you arrive with some of it done, you usually get more out of the dives.

Yes, but not straight after. As a general guideline, it is recommended to wait at least 12 hours after a single no decompression dive, and 18 hours if you have done several dives or several days of diving. If your flight is close, tell us and we will help you plan the course with enough time.

Yes, if your age and student profile allow it. This course includes a deep dive component, but the depth limit depends on the student’s age.

If you are 12 to 14 years old, you can do the deep dive component down to 21 m, but you do not start the Deep Diving specialty as such. To complete the full Deep Diving specialty and train down to 30 m, you need to be 15.

Before you start, we’ll explain exactly which limit applies in your case.

Yes. If you have a certification equivalent to Open Water, you can do the course with us with no problem.

Yes, if you want those dives to give you something more. This course is not just about adding more dives. It is about trying new specialties and coming out of the water with a clearer feeling of real progress as a diver.

We choose them based on the conditions, the specialties you want to do, and what will make the most sense for the group that day. The idea is always the same: make the course enjoyable, useful, and safe.

No. The course includes full diving equipment, a dive computer, and DAN insurance during the course. You only need to bring your personal things to feel comfortable, like swimwear, a towel, or anything you prefer to use.

It is a very similar kind of advanced pathway after Open Water. We teach SSI. If you are not sure which option makes more sense for you, tell us your goal, your level, and how many days you have, and we will help you choose the right fit.

Do you want to come out of the water feeling like a better diver?

If you want to do 5 dives that really give you something, and go home with more experience, more control, and new ways to enjoy diving, this course could be a very good fit for you.

I Want to Do My Advanced

And when you feel like taking it one step further?

If, after this course, you feel like moving from trying new specialties to feeling much more prepared underwater, the next course that usually makes the most sense is SSI Stress & Rescue.

It is a very good way to start seeing diving from a different point of view. It is no longer only about looking after yourself. You also start learning how to look after others better.

See the SSI Stress & Rescue Course