Adventure Dive (Deep or Night)

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.