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Advance your scuba skills in Tenerife over two intensive days with SCUBANANA. This PADI Advanced Open Water course includes five adventure dives—Deep, Navigation, Night, Wreck and Peak Performance Buoyancy—to expand depth limits and refine buoyancy and navigation.
Advance your scuba skills in Tenerife over two intensive days with SCUBANANA. This PADI Advanced Open Water course includes five adventure dives—Deep, Navigation, Night, Wreck and Peak Performance Buoyancy—to expand depth limits and refine buoyancy and navigation.
You step off the rib and the Atlantic reaches up, cool and insistent, pushing you toward a dark shelf where volcanic rock drops away. Tenerife’s southern coast opens like a page of underwater terrain: folded lava flows, hidden reefs, and wrecks that sit like time-stamped atlases. Over two days with SCUBANANA, students trade shallow training pools for real profiles — deep dives, navigation legs, night hours, wreck exploration and precision buoyancy work.
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Operated by Scubanana Dive Center · Los Cristianos, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
You step off the rib and the Atlantic reaches up, cool and insistent, pushing you toward a dark shelf where volcanic rock drops away. Tenerife’s southern coast opens like a page of underwater terrain: folded lava flows, hidden reefs, and wrecks that sit like time-stamped atlases. Over two days with SCUBANANA, students trade shallow training pools for real profiles — deep dives, navigation legs, night hours, wreck exploration and precision buoyancy work.
The Canary Islands sit on ancient volcanic seams; underwater cliffs and lava boulders are part geology lesson, part playground. The islands’ maritime culture—fishermen, boat-builders and diving guides—has long shaped local access to these reefs. Tenerife’s subtropical climate and the protective lee of the island give relatively stable sea conditions and visibility often between 10–25 m, though currents can pick up around headlands.
Practical guidance matters: this course requires an existing PADI (or equivalent) Open Water certification and moderate fitness. Instructors log five Adventure Dives: Deep, Navigation, Night, Wreck and Peak Performance Buoyancy. Expect classroom briefings, surface intervals, and supervised dives from a tender or shore launch depending on conditions. Gear is provided, but bring your personal mask and reef-safe sunscreen. Observe the no-diving-before-flight rule (recommended 12–24 hours), and prepare for variable currents and cooler temperatures at depth.
For motivated divers the AOWD is both confidence builder and passport to specialty training: take precise notes, practice trim, and use your dive computer properly. Tenerife’s sea will test your buoyancy and reward your curiosity—there’s real terrain below to explore.
Yes—you must hold a PADI Open Water Diver (or equivalent) certification to enroll in the Advanced Open Water course.
After AOWD you are typically certified to 30 metres/100 feet for recreational diving under PADI guidelines.
Yes—this course includes Adventure Dives covering Deep, Navigation, Night, Wreck and Peak Performance Buoyancy, all supervised by your PADI instructor.
Basic diving gear, learning materials and PADI fees are included, but bringing a personal mask/snorkel and dive computer is recommended.
Scubanana Dive Center operates guided outdoor trips and adventures with an emphasis on safety, stewardship, and memorable experiences.
You step off the rib and the Atlantic reaches up, cool and insistent, pushing you toward a dark shelf where volcanic rock drops away. Tenerife’s southern coast opens like a page of underwater terrain: folded lava flows, hidden reefs, and wrecks that sit like time-stamped atlases. Over two days with SCUBANANA, students trade shallow training pools for real profiles — deep dives, navigation legs, night hours, wreck exploration and precision buoyancy work.
You step off the rib and the Atlantic reaches up, cool and insistent, pushing you toward a dark shelf where volcanic rock drops away. Tenerife’s southern coast opens like a page of underwater terrain: folded lava flows, hidden reefs, and wrecks that sit like time-stamped atlases. Over two days with SCUBANANA, students trade shallow training pools for real profiles — deep dives, navigation legs, night hours, wreck exploration and precision buoyancy work.
The Canary Islands sit on ancient volcanic seams; underwater cliffs and lava boulders are part geology lesson, part playground. The islands’ maritime culture—fishermen, boat-builders and diving guides—has long shaped local access to these reefs. Tenerife’s subtropical climate and the protective lee of the island give relatively stable sea conditions and visibility often between 10–25 m, though currents can pick up around headlands.
Practical guidance matters: this course requires an existing PADI (or equivalent) Open Water certification and moderate fitness. Instructors log five Adventure Dives: Deep, Navigation, Night, Wreck and Peak Performance Buoyancy. Expect classroom briefings, surface intervals, and supervised dives from a tender or shore launch depending on conditions. Gear is provided, but bring your personal mask and reef-safe sunscreen. Observe the no-diving-before-flight rule (recommended 12–24 hours), and prepare for variable currents and cooler temperatures at depth.
For motivated divers the AOWD is both confidence builder and passport to specialty training: take precise notes, practice trim, and use your dive computer properly. Tenerife’s sea will test your buoyancy and reward your curiosity—there’s real terrain below to explore.