Wreck and divers — Level 2 training

Level 2 / Advanced Adventurer Diver

You’ve mas­tered the basics and now you want to gain more inde­pen­dence and go deep­er?

Lev­el 2/Advanced Adven­tur­er opens the door to autonomous div­ing and going deep­er whilst con­sol­i­dat­ing the skills you learnt as a Lev­el 1/Open Water Div­er. Come and take your course in Reunion island with Escapade Plongée.

Key information

Prerequisites

Age: 14 years old for PE40 and 16 years old for PA20 com­plete.
Med­ical cer­tifi­cate clear­ing you for scu­ba div­ing (less than one year old)
Min­i­mum 10 logged open water dives.



Content and evaluation

10 open water dives (eval­u­a­tion is pro­gres­sive through­out the train­ing)

The­o­ry: online learn­ing, class­room the­o­ry and mul­ti­ple choice eval­u­a­tion quiz.

At Escapade Plongée we include EANx (Enriched Air Nitrox) train­ing for all Lev­el 2 and Advanced train­ing cours­es.

PE40/EANx40

340 €

  • Guid­ed div­er up to 40 metres depth
  • 4 open water dives
  • Nitrox 40 train­ing
  • Class­room dive the­o­ry course
  • PE40 ANMP cer­ti­fi­ca­tion
  • Nitrox 40 ANMP cer­ti­fi­ca­tion

PA20/EANx40

480 €

  • Autonomous div­er to 20 metres
  • 6 open water dives
  • Nitrox 40 train­ing
  • Class­room dive the­o­ry course
  • PA20 ANMP cer­ti­fi­ca­tion
  • Nitrox 40 ANMP cer­ti­fi­ca­tion

Level 2 (PA20+PE40) / Advanced Adventurer / EANx40

750 €

  • Autonomous div­er (20 metres in France, 30 metres inter­na­tion­al­ly)
  • Guid­ed div­er to 40 metres (in France)
  • 10 open water dives
  • EANx (Enriched Air Nitrox) course
  • 5 SDI spe­cial­ties (Deep div­er, Nav­i­ga­tion, Drift, Night, Marine Bio, Com­put­er…)
  • Class­room dive the­o­ry course
  • ANMP Lev­el 2 cer­ti­fi­ca­tion
  • ANMP Nitrox40 cer­ti­fi­ca­tion
  • SDI Advanced Adven­tur­er cer­ti­fi­ca­tion

Prices include insur­ance and all equip­ment required for the course.
No inten­sive sport, free­d­iv­ing or alti­tude (300m+) after div­ing. And 24 hours between your last dive and fly­ing.

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Level 2 / Advanced Adventurer Diver Course Outline

Upon reg­is­tra­tion, you will gain access to our online learn­ing plat­form, where you will find course mate­ri­als, the infor­ma­tion required for your cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, and the final mul­ti­ple-choice quiz.

An aver­age of six dives is ded­i­cat­ed to devel­op­ing auton­o­my with­in the 20-meter depth range.

Pro­gress­ing to depths of up to 40 meters is done grad­u­al­ly, over an aver­age of four dives.

 

In addi­tion to the online the­o­ry lessons, an in-per­son group ses­sion is held in our train­ing room, led by one of the cen­ter’s instruc­tors. This ses­sion encour­ages inter­ac­tion and adds sig­nif­i­cant val­ue to your learn­ing expe­ri­ence.

 

The Basic Nitrox qual­i­fi­ca­tion is includ­ed in every course. Nitrox is a gas mix­ture enriched with up to 40% oxy­gen (stan­dard com­pressed air con­tains 21%). Nitrox enhances safe­ty by improv­ing off-gassing (desat­u­ra­tion) dur­ing your dives.

What’s Basic Nitrox?

Level 2 / Advanced Adventurer Diver Course Skills

With the French (ANMP) lev­el 2 cer­ti­fi­ca­tion there are 2 dis­tinct parts. A div­er can choose to do either of the two parts or com­plete both to have the com­plete Lev­el 2 div­er cer­ti­fi­ca­tion. The 2 parts are:

  • PA20: com­plet­ing this part gives you auton­o­my to go to a max­i­mum depth of 20 metres. You will always dive with a dive bud­dy (also with a min­i­mum train­ing lev­el of PA20) but you don’t need to be accom­pa­nied by a dive pro­fes­sion­al.
  • PE40: This part of the train­ing allows you to go to a max­i­mum depth of 40 metres, accom­pa­nied by a dive pro­fes­sion­al.

 

The full Lev­el 2 train­ing course cov­ers both parts so you can dive inde­pen­dent­ly to 20 metres or up to 40 metres with a dive pro.

 

SDI Advanced Adven­tur­er is an inter­na­tion­al­ly recog­nised cer­ti­fi­ca­tion. You can dive with your dive bud­dy, with­out a dive pro­fes­sion­al, to a max­i­mum depth of 30 metres.

Assisted ascent — 20m

SMP deployment

Autonomy / Navigation

Red sea anemone

FAQ

Can I obtain the PA20 and PE40 qualifications independently of one another?

Yes, you can choose to train only for the PA20 (Autonomous Div­er to 20 meters) or the PE40 (Guid­ed Div­er to 40 meters), and then com­plete your train­ing lat­er.

I already hold the PA20 or PE40 certification; will completing the remaining training qualify me for Level 2?

Yes, absolute­ly. Upon pre­sen­ta­tion of your exist­ing qual­i­fi­ca­tion, the sup­ple­men­tary PA20 or PE40 training—whichever applies—will allow you to achieve full Lev­el 2 cer­ti­fi­ca­tion.

I don’t have a dive computer; do I need to buy one for the training?

No. A dive com­put­er will be pro­vid­ed for each train­ing dive. This way, you can learn how to use one before con­sid­er­ing a pur­chase.

How long does it take to obtain your Level 2 certification?

The course con­sists of 10 open-water dives and a half-day of the­o­ry. Depend­ing on your avail­abil­i­ty, it can be com­plet­ed over ten inten­sive days or spread out over sev­er­al weeks; how­ev­er, we rec­om­mend leav­ing no more than 2 weeks between ses­sions to ensure effec­tive progress.

Can I do multiple dives a day?

As a gen­er­al rule, we rec­om­mend doing only one train­ing dive per day to ensure safe­ty, par­tic­u­lar­ly giv­en the ascent and res­cue exer­cis­es involved.

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