Our Local FriendTwo SSI certifications5 days9 ocean dives2 certifications6 nights included
SSI Open Water & Advanced Course Combo
Mae Haad, Koh Tao · Starts daily
$747
per person · 6 nights' accommodation included ฿22,400
About this course
Both certifications, back to back, while it's all still fresh.
Open Water then Advanced, run straight through as one five-day block. Nine dives, two lifetime certifications, and a depth limit of 30 metres at the end of a week that started with you not knowing how to put a tank together.
Doing them back to back is genuinely better than splitting them up. The skills are still in your hands from day three when you start day four, and you get your first post-certification dives with an instructor rather than alone and slightly unsure.
Six nights at the Regal are included — Pok's own place, a few minutes from the pier.
Course structure
Your day-by-day journey
Day 1 — Digital theory, then the pool. Every core skill, repeated until it's automatic.
Skills you'll earn
What you'll be able to do
Everything in the Open Water syllabus, from gear to gas planning Diving to 30 metres and managing narcosis Compass and natural navigation Refined buoyancy and trim across nine logged dives
Certification
What you take home
SSI Open Water + Advanced Open Water Diver
Two lifetime certifications, issued digitally as you complete each one. You finish qualified to dive independently with a buddy to 30 metres, anywhere in the world. Ages 12–15 certify as Junior and are limited to 21 metres.
Two certificationsLifetime validMax depth 30m9 logged dives
What's included
What the price covers
- All dive equipment for the length of the course
- A dive computer to use, free
- Digital learning materials and your certification
- Boat trips, with drinks and snacks aboard
- 30 days of dive accident insurance
- A free T-shirt, and 10% off anything you book afterwards
- Six nights' accommodation, private room with air-con
Honest Corner
— real talk before you enrolYou'll love this if…
- Cheaper than the two courses booked separately, with two extra nights
- Your first dives after certification are supervised, which is when it matters most
- Nine logged dives is a real start, not a token one
Worth knowing before you enrol
- Five consecutive days — this is most of a week
- You cannot fly for 18–24 hours after your last dive, so plan the trip home
- Minimum age is 12, higher than Open Water alone
Student fit
Who's this course for?
Great fit
🗓️
A week on the island
Five days of diving and two certifications is about the best use of a week here.
Great fit
🚀
All-in beginners
You already know you want to dive properly. This gets you there in one run.
Great fit
💸
Value hunters
฿1,100 less than the two courses apart, plus two more nights included.
Maybe
😌
Slow travellers
Nothing wrong with certifying, diving for fun a while, then coming back for Advanced.
Not for you
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