Padi Advanced

The Advanced course at Mondiving takes you to 30 metres, building on the Open Water foundation with a focus on navigation, buoyancy control and a deep dive. Beyond those two mandatory dives, you choose three specialty dives from the PADI catalogue — each one counting as credit toward a full specialty certification if you want to continue down that path.

The dives take place inside the Reserva Marina del Cabo de San Antonio, the same protected area used for Open Water training but at greater depths. The reserve's submarine walls and rocky structures make the navigation and deep dives more engaging than a featureless sand slope. You're working on technique in an environment where the marine life — grouper, cornetfish, moray eels — gives you something real to orient around.

Like the Open Water, theory is handled online via the PADI platform before the practical days begin. The centre uses the same blocked scheduling of Monday–Wednesday or Friday–Sunday for the water sessions.

For divers who complete the Advanced here, the natural next step in the Mondiving curriculum is the Rescue Diver combined with the Emergency First Response, which the centre runs as a paired course.