An Adventure Dive is a single elective dive taken from the Advanced Open Water course. It’s the right call if you don’t have the time or budget for the full Advanced — but still want to experience a deeper or a more unusual dive, with an instructor, and get something on paper to show for it.
The two we run most often
Deep Adventure Dive — to 30 metres. Any Open Water-certified diver can extend their depth limit from 18 m to 30 m for the day, under instructor supervision. The most popular choice — Gili Air’s best wrecks and walls sit between 18 and 30 metres, and an Open Water card alone doesn’t get you there.
Night Adventure Dive. Your first night dive should be with an instructor. This one introduces you to the unique atmosphere underwater after dark — torch protocol, communication, what changes when the reef wakes up at night (Spanish dancers, hunting morays, bioluminescence in your fins on the way back to the boat).
How it works
You don’t need to have completed any of the Advanced course beforehand. Your instructor gives you a full briefing on the theory and safety relevant to your dive — depth and narcosis for Deep, torch handling and night-specific signals for Night — and you do the dive together. After it’s signed off, you’ve earned official credit for that Adventure Dive in SSI’s system.
What it costs
- Adventure Dive with certification — 1,350,000 IDR (includes a 110,000 IDR SSI certification fee)
- Adventure Dive without certification — 1,240,000 IDR (same dive, just not logged in SSI’s system)
- Night Adventure Dive with cert — 1,350,000 IDR / without cert — 1,240,000 IDR
Credit toward future Advanced Open Water
Each completed Adventure Dive counts as one of the five dives required for the full Advanced Open Water Diver certification. Do a Deep Adventure Dive this week; come back in a year and you’ve only got four dives left to finish your Advanced. Adventure Dive credits don’t expire — they stay on your SSI record for the rest of your diving career.
If you’d rather do the whole Advanced course in one go — that’s only five dives over two days, and the price gap versus five fun dives is small. Have a look at the Advanced Open Water course page for the full picture.
Frequently asked
What's the difference between Adventure Dive and a fun dive?
A fun dive is purely recreational — no theory, no certification. An Adventure Dive is a single elective dive from the Advanced Open Water course. You get a full briefing on the relevant theory and safety, do the dive with an instructor, and it counts as one of the five dives needed for the full Advanced certification — for the rest of your diving career.
With cert or no cert — what's the difference?
Both versions are the same dive with the same instructor and the same briefing. With certification (1,350,000 IDR — includes a 110,000 IDR SSI fee) you get a printed Adventure Dive credit on your SSI record. No certification (1,240,000 IDR) means the dive isn't logged in SSI's system — pick this if you just want the experience and don't plan to continue toward Advanced.
How does the credit toward Advanced work?
Every Adventure Dive you complete counts as one of the five dives needed for the full Advanced Open Water certification. If you do a Deep Adventure Dive now and come back next year for the rest of the Advanced course, you only have four dives left to do. Adventure Dive credits don't expire.
Can I do the Deep Adventure without taking the full Advanced course first?
Yes — that's exactly the point. With a full pre-dive briefing from your instructor covering the theory and safety, any Open Water-certified diver can do a single Deep or Night Adventure Dive without taking the full Advanced course beforehand.
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