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Advanced Diving Course

Build on your Open Water certification — deep, drift, and navigation dives on Tanzania's best reefs to expand your skills and depth limit.

Experience Guide

Already certified? The Advanced course takes your diving further, with five ‘adventure dives’ including deep and underwater-navigation specialties, plus options like drift, wreck, or night diving. It raises your depth limit and, crucially, your confidence and competence — opening up Tanzania’s more dramatic sites.

It’s the perfect course to do on Pemba or Mafia, where the walls, drifts, and big-fish dives reward the extra skills. Over two to three days you’ll log varied dives with an instructor and emerge a more capable, confident diver.

How It Unfolds

Plan
Choose specialties

Pick adventure dives — deep, drift, navigation, night.

Dives
Build skills

Log five varied dives with an instructor.

Deep
Go deeper

A deep dive extends your certified depth limit.

Certify
Advance

Complete the course and earn your advanced certificate.

Is It Worth It?

Genuinely worthwhile if you've a handful of dives logged and want to dive Tanzania's best (especially Pemba's walls) with more confidence and depth. It assumes Open Water certification first. Conditions are best October to March. As ever, choose a safety-focused centre.

Good to Know

  • Open Water certification required
  • Best done on Pemba/Mafia
  • Conditions best Oct–March
  • Raises depth limit and confidence
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Best Places for This Experience

These are the destinations we most often pair with Advanced Diving Course, based on route flow, season, and how the wider itinerary fits together.

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Mafia Island

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A laid-back diving island south of Zanzibar — a protected marine park, seasonal whale sharks, and reefs without the crowds.

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Pemba Island

Pemba Island

Zanzibar's lush, hilly sister island — clove plantations, dramatic drift diving, and a deeply traditional pace far from the crowds.

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Questions?

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Before You Book

What's in the Advanced course?
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Five adventure dives including deep and underwater navigation, plus options like drift, wreck, or night diving, over 2–3 days.
Do I need to be certified already?
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Yes — Open Water certification (or equivalent) is the prerequisite.
Why take it in Tanzania?
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Pemba's walls and Mafia's marine park reward the extra skills and depth, making them ideal training grounds.
How long does it take?
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Two to three days; conditions are best October to March.
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