Five adventure dives from our dive shop in West End.
$400 includes eLearning, gear, instructor and PADI certification.
Open Water taught you to dive. Advanced is where you stop thinking about your gear and start looking around. The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course gives you the tools to become a well-rounded diver and vastly extends your range of dive sites. Two of the five dives are set, Deep and Navigation. The other three adventure dives are your choice. Once you're certified, you can join our daily 8:30am two-tank morning dive trip.
Complete PADI eLearning theory before you arrive. Five adventure dives with your PADI instructor at our West End dive shop over two or three days. No rush. No exam. You leave certified to dive up to 30 meters / 100 feet.
Requirements: PADI Open Water Diver / Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification). Must be 15 years or older (12 to 14 for Jr. Advanced Open Water Diver).
Six to eight hours of eLearning, done at home. Theory for the deep dive, navigation, and whichever electives you pick. Once you're in West End there's no classroom, just dive briefings.
The two required dives. Deep takes you past the 18 meters you were capped at as an Open Water Diver, down a Roatan wall. Navigation is compass work and natural references on the reef.
Wreck, night, drift, buoyancy, Nitrox, photography, and seven more in the eLearning. We go through them at the briefing and pick three around what you want and weather conditions.
Your Coconut Tree instructor signs you off and PADI processes the card. Every adventure dive you did counts as the first dive of that specialty if you come back for it. Many divers do!
Deep and Underwater Navigation are required on every PADI Advanced Open Water course. The other three are yours, and you pick them with your instructor once they've been in the water with you and know what you need. Every adventure dive also counts as the first dive of the matching PADI specialty.
Down a wall to 30 meters. You plan it, you run it, you watch your own no-stop time.
Compass and natural references. Getting back to the boat without surfacing to check.
The one divers wish they'd done sooner. Trim, weighting, and air you stop wasting.
Roatan has wrecks worth the trip. Learn to swim one without stirring the whole thing up.
Same reef you dove this morning. Completely different animals on it after dark.
Let the current do the work. You'll deploy a surface marker buoy on the way up.
Stop calling everything the blue fish. Learn what you're actually looking at.
Getting a shot that isn't blue and blurry. Harder than it looks, worth learning.
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Gas, depth and no-stop time, plus what narcosis actually feels like down there.
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Compass work and natural navigation, so you find the boat without guessing.
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Holding your trim while you're also running a compass or minding a computer.
No. There’s no final exam and no written test, and there are no pool or classroom sessions either. You work through a short knowledge review for each adventure dive, then you go dive it.
One price covers everything: your PADI eLearning, all rental gear, your instructor and all five dives. The only extra is the Roatan Marine Park bracelet, which is good for a year rather than per dive.
The eLearning runs six to eight hours and you do it at home before you travel. Diving is two days, or three if you’d rather spread it out. Five dives either way.
Yes. Plenty of people do both back to back with us in the same week. You need the Open Water card in hand first, and that’s the only prerequisite.
Less demanding than Open Water. It builds on skills you already have, and the point is experience rather than testing. Five dives, an instructor beside you on every one, no exam.
30 meters / 100 feet if you’re 15 or older. Divers aged 12 to 14 earn a Junior Advanced Open Water certification and are limited to 21 meters / 70 feet. That card becomes a full Advanced Open Water certification automatically when they turn 15. Anyone under 16 needs a parent or guardian to sign off.
Deep and Underwater Navigation. The deep dive takes you past the 18 meter / 60 foot limit you had as an Open Water Diver. The other three are yours to choose.
Depends on the weather, the current and what you pick. The deep dive usually runs at Hole in the Wall or along the wall. Drift dives head out to The Point for West End Wall or Texas. Night dives are often Fish Den.
No. BCD, regulator, wetsuit, mask, fins, computer, tanks and weights are all included. We run 80cf / 12L tanks as standard, and if you breathe through air quickly ask for a 100cf / 16L at no extra cost. We keep 65cf / 9L tanks for smaller divers and kids.
You’ll fill out the PADI Diver Medical questionnaire before you dive. If you answer yes to anything on it, you need a doctor to sign off before you get in the water. Worth checking before you book flights rather than on the morning of your first dive.
Yes. The 8:30 a.m. two-tank trip runs to the deeper sites and needs an Advanced card. That’s the main reason a lot of our divers sign up for this course.
No. Any certified Open Water Diver can night dive with us. Running it as one of your five adventure dives just means it counts toward the certification instead of being a fun dive.
Adventure Diver is three adventure dives. Advanced Open Water is five, and Deep and Navigation have to be two of them. Dives you’ve already logged as an Adventure Diver count toward Advanced.
Send us your dates and your current certification and we'll come back to you with availability, usually the same day.
Roatan sits on the Mesoamerican Reef, the second largest barrier reef system in the world, and the wall starts a few minutes off West End. An Advanced card puts you on the 8:30 a.m. two-tank boat to the deeper sites: the sand chute at Hole in the Wall, the drift along West End Wall and Texas out at The Point. We run four certified dive tours a day across more than 80 sites. The hyperbaric chamber is less than 10 minutes away. Come dive with us!
Plenty of divers stop here and just dive, and that's a fine place to stop. If you want to keep going, Rescue is the one people still talk about years later. Nitrox buys you more no-deco time on the deeper walls, and you can fold it into this course as one of your five dives. Specialties let you go properly deep on one thing instead of sampling five.
The course divers talk about most. It changes how you think in the water.
More time on the deeper walls. One day, no dives.
Wrecks done properly. Lines, lights, and an actual plan.
Coconut Tree Divers is right in the heart of West End, with some of Roatan's best dive sites right on our doorstep.
Our PADI 5 Star IDC Center is one of Roatan's oldest and top-rated dive shops.
Completed, official PADI course certification records, May 2026.
Four daily fun dives and Tues & Thurs night dives make five.
TDI courses and guided deep diving from Advanced Nitrox to Trimix to Helitrox.
“My daughter and I were here last week doing some advanced certifications. We did our Rescue Diver, Advanced Open Water and buoyancy certification, and then fun dives the rest of the week. We have been here many times and will never dive with anyone else on the island.”
Pie S.
