Learn to Dive & Dive Specialty courses

Whether you want to learn to dive, follow advanced courses or you want to do some speciality courses like underwater photography or you just want to do a week of fun diving, you are welcome to join! We offer a stay on the tropical island Gili Trawangen in a nice resort close to all the action on this tiny and beautiful island plus one of the following options.

All dive packages below include return fast boat transfers from Bali to Gili Trawangan, including hotel pick up and drop offs to/from Ubud and South Bali. Also included is the Gili Eco Trust Reef Tax.

Open Water Diver Package

Learn to dive plus 5 nights accommodation.

The Open Water Course consists of confined water training in our pool, scuba dive theory, and four open water dives at world class dive sites located around the Gilis. We have a huge variety of marine life in the area, and over the course of your four dives, you have a good chance of seeing big stuff like sharks and turtles, as well as some fascinating smaller stuff like octopus, cuttlefish, lion fish and scorpion fish.

Advanced Open Water Diver Package

Become an Advanced diver plus 3 nights accommodation.

The Advanced Adventurer course is designed to build on the knowledge you acquired in your Open Water course, give you new and exciting underwater experiences, and fine tune your diving skills. The course consists of five dives. Two of the dives are compulsory (the deep and navigation dives) and the other three you may choose from a variety of options, the most popular being: night dive, naturalist dive, nitrox dive, computer dive, peak performance buoyancy or photography dive. There are no quizzes, exams or videos on the advanced course – it’s all about diving. For each dive you receive an extended briefing and debrief from your instructor regarding your chosen option. Upon completion of this course you will be certified to dive to 30m.

Combined Specialities Package

Deep, Enriched Air Nitrox and Photography plus 5 nights accommodation.

Deep Diving: The course teaches the fundamentals of deep diving, so you can be more comfortable, more knowledgeable and safe. During the course you will complete four open water dives, down to a maximum of 40 meters, focusing on planning, preparation, specialist equipment and potential hazards. The goal of this course is not to graduate you as a technical diver, rather to outline the challenges of deep diving.
Nitrox: is about longer bottom times and shorter surface intervals. We teach divers the benefits, limitations, procedures, precautions, equipment considerations and dive planning techniques involved with diving on Nitrox 32% to 36%, as well as the practical application of analysing tanks. The course involves two training dives on which you can experience the best of the diving around the Gilis as it extends your dive limits dramatically within the 18-30m range.
Photography: You will learn the skills and techniques involved in underwater still photography. Upon completing the course, you will be able to demonstrate and explain basic photographic principles, composition, including principles of exposure and focus, strobe and available light photography, camera-handling techniques and how to manipulate images on a computer. You will also learn how to prepare, care for and maintain your underwater photographic equipment, and by the end of the course you should be able to take underwater photographs that are properly composed, focused and exposed. The course includes two dives.

Fun diving package, add on to your booked dive course

1 week of fun diving including 7 nights accommodation.

Once you have finished your course(s) it is great to get in the water and put everything into practice – without an Instructor making you do any skills! Fun diving is valuable experience, builds up your number of logged dives and really gives you a chance to fine-tune your own diving abilities. The package includes as many dives as you can do during the week, including night dives if you are already advanced certified. This package can be tagged on to the end of any of the above courses.

Excellent Diving

The diving on the Gili’s is all about the marine life. There is a massive variety of fish life, and it's a good mix between impressive big stuff like sharks and turtles, and more specialist smaller stuff like leaf scorpion fish and pipe fish. Usually the visibility is 20+ meters which is amazing. The coral isn't perfect everywhere; a lot of the coral in the shallows has been damaged by a combination of dynamite fishing and El Nino much of which is regenerating nicely. The coral in the deeper water is unaffected, and we have some stunning sites at 18 - 30m where the coral is completely intact. We dive all year around here and conditions are usually good.