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SCUBA DIVING COURSES

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SCUBA COURSES

PADI DISCOVER SCUBA DIVE / SSI TRY DIVE

£25pp

A quick and easy introduction into what it takes to explore the underwater world. Although this is not a scuba certification course, you'll learn all the steps it takes to be a PADI / SSI certified diver.

 

Have you always wondered what it's like to breathe underwater? If you want to try scuba diving, but aren't quite ready to take the plunge into a certification course, Discover Scuba Diving is for you. are dive club offer this program either in a pool, off a beach or from a dive boat. You can try scuba close to home or while you're on vacation at a dive destination. While not a scuba certification course, Discover Scuba Diving is a quick and easy introduction to what it takes to explore the underwater world. To sign up for a PADI / SSI Discover Scuba Diving experience, you must be at least 10 years old. No prior experience with scuba diving is necessary, but you need to be in reasonable physical health. Are you ready to try it out?

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Academic

You learn the basic safety guidelines and skills needed to dive under the direct supervision of a PADI / SSI Professional. If you make an open water dive, you'll practice a few more skills in shallow water to prepare for your adventure. Get ready to:

  • Go over the scuba equipment you use to dive and how easy it is to move around underwater with your gear.

  • Find out what it's like to breathe underwater.

  • Learn key skills that you'll use during every scuba dive.

  • Have fun swimming around and exploring.

  • Hear about becoming a certified diver through the PADI Open Water Diver course.

Minimum age

10 years old

PADI / SSI JR/ OPEN WATER DIVER

£400

About the Course

PADI / SSI Open Water Diver is the first scuba certification level. One of are highly-trained PADI / SSI Instructor will teach you how to scuba dive in a relaxed, supportive learning environment.

 

By the end of the course, you'll have the skills and knowledge to dive at home or abroad and be an ambassador for the underwater world.

 

Take This Course If You Want to

  • Explore the other 70 percent of our planet

  • Support ocean protection

  • See things you've never seen before

  • Learn from a scuba diving expert

  • Carry the world's most recognized scuba certification

 

Learn How to

  • Be a confident and skilled diver

  • Assemble and use scuba gear

  • Manage your buoyancy

  • Respectfully approach marine life

  • Handle common problems

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How to Earn your Scuba Diving Certification

Learn about scuba diving principles and terminology (either offline or online), then learn basic scuba skills in a pool (or pool-like environment) with one of are highly trained PADI / SSI Instructor. When you're ready, make four dives in an open water environment (the ocean, a lake) with your instructor supporting you every step of the way.

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Practice using scuba gear in a pool (or pool-like environment) until you're comfortable. PADI / SSI training includes practice "mini dives" to help you build confidence in your new abilities before making four dives in open water.

  • Prerequisites: Able to swim; medically fit for diving

  • Total time commitment: 4-7 days

  • Minimum age: 10 years or older

  • Depth: expect shallow dives (12m/40ft), the maximum allowed depth is 18m/60ft

PADI / SSI OPEN WATER REFERRAL

£350

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PADI / SSI REACTIVATE

£80 - £35 per extra training session

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PADI / SSI ADVANCE OPEN WATER DIVER

£350

About the Course

The Advanced Open Water Diver course is all about advancing your skills. You'll practice navigation and buoyancy, try deep diving and make three specialty dives of your choosing (it's like a specialty sampler platter). For every specialty dive you complete, you can earn credit toward PADI / SSI specialty certifications.

Here are a few of the many options: Deep, Digital Underwater Imaging, Dive Against Debris, Dry Suit, Enriched Air Nitrox, Fish Identification, Night, Peak Performance Buoyancy, Search & rescue, Underwater Naturalist, Underwater Navigation, and Wreck Diver.

Check out the Frequently Asked Questions section for a complete list of specialty dive options.

 

Take This Course If You Want to

  • Gain more diving experience

  • Practice navigation

  • Sample different types of diving

 

Learn How to

  • Explore below 18m/60ft

  • Improve your buoyancy

  • Use a compass

 

How to Become an Advanced Open Water Diver

Learn about underwater navigation, deep diving and three types of specialty diving that interest you. After some skill practice with your instructor, you'll make five open water dives. There's no exam because this course is truly about having fun and gaining experience.

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The course includes five dives: a deep dive below 18m/60f, a navigation dive, and three specialty dives. Gain experience, build confidence and discover your diving abilities.

  • Prerequisites: Open Water Diver/Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification)

  • Total time commitment: 2-3 days

  • Minimum age: 12 years or older

  • Depth: The maximum depth depends on your age, but maximum depth is up to 30 metres/100 feet

PADI RESCUE DIVER - SSI DIVER STRESS AND RESCUE

£450

About the Course

The PADI / SSI Rescue Diver course will change the way you dive – in the best possible way. Learn to identify and fix minor issues before they become big problems, gain a lot of confidence and have serious fun along the way.

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Discover why countless divers say Rescue Diver is their favorite scuba course.

 

Take This Course If You Want to

  • Be a better dive buddy

  • Improve your navigation skills

  • Enroll in a divemaster course

 

Learn How to

  • Help other divers

  • Fix minor gear issues

  • Use an emergency oxygen kit

 

How to Become a Rescue Diver

Learn how to think like a rescue diver through home study and skill practice with an instructor. All PADI / SSI courses are flexible and performance-based. You'll practice basic rescue skills and then show you can effectively apply them in open water.

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The water training sessions are serious fun. You'll practice handling scenarios such as a leg cramp and assisting a tired diver by role-playing with other students and your instructor.

  • Prerequisites: Adventure Diver/Junior Adventure Diver (or qualifying certification) with completed Underwater Navigation Dive; EFR Primary and Secondary Care training (or qualifying training) within 24 months

  • Total time commitment: 4-7 days

  • Minimum age: 12 years or older

  • Depth: 0

PADI DIVE MASTER

£700

Be a leader who mentors and motivates others. Gain dive knowledge, supervision abilities, and become a role model to divers around the world.

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Share your passion for scuba diving by becoming a PADI Divemaster. As a divemaster you'll supervise scuba diving activities and assist with scuba classes. PADI Divemaster is the first step in your diving career.

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Academic

The PADI Divemaster course teaches you to be a leader and take charge of dive activities. Through knowledge development sessions, waterskills exercises and workshops, and hands-on practical assessment, you develop the skills to organize and direct a variety of scuba diving activities. Topics and practical workshops include:

  • The role and characteristics of the PADI Divemaster

  • Supervising dive activities and assisting with student divers

  • Diver safety and risk management

  • Divemaster conducted programs and specialized skills

  • Business of diving and your career

  • Awareness of the dive environment

  • Dive setup and management

  • Mapping an open water site

  • Conducting dive briefings

  • Organizing a search and recovery project and a deep dive

  • Conducting a scuba review and skin diver course

  • Assisting with Discover Scuba Diving and leading Discover Local Diving programs

Your instructor may also offer the PADI Deep Diver and Search and Recovery Diver specialty diver courses along with your divemaster training to help you meet all requirements and to broaden your abilities.


You may be able to get college credit for the Divemaster course - ask your instructor.

Age Requirement
18 years or older

Course Prerequisites
Rescue Diver, 40 logged dives, CPR and First Aid certification within 24 months, medical clearance to dive

Time Commitment
Approximately 50 hours

SPECIALTY COURSES

PADI EFR / SSI REACT RIGHT
(FIRST AID)

£100

About the Course

Emergency First Response primary and secondary care training teaches you what to do in the critical moments between when a life-threatening emergency occurs and when emergency medical services arrive.

Learn how to perform CPR, provide first aid that eases pain, assess a variety of injuries and illnesses and practice bandaging and splinting.

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Take This Course If You Want to

  • Learn CPR

  • Improve your first aid skills

  • Be prepared in an emergency

Learn How to

  • Respond to a variety of illness and injuries

  • Help someone who is choking

  • Handle a possible spinal injury

  • Apply bandages and splints

The Emergency First Response Primary Care (CPR) and Secondary Care (First Aid) course combines flexible online self-study and in-person training. It's your course at your pace. Practice a skill until you feel confident before moving on to the next one.

Learn eight essential skills for helping others in an emergency. Get hands-on experience administering CPR using a special manikin, practice bandaging and splinting, and apply your new skills in a role-playing scenario.

  • Prerequisites: Desire to help others

  • Total time commitment: 4-8 hours

  • Minimum age: None

PADI / SSI EMERGENCY OXYGEN PROVIDER

£120

About the course

Immediately recognize scuba diving illnesses treatable with emergency oxygen and be prepared to offer aid. There are no prerequisites or age restrictions. This course is open to everyone.

Knowing how and when to use emergency oxygen is a great skill to have and means you're ready to help others should the need arise. Becoming a PADI / SSI Emergency Oxygen Provider lets you breathe easy knowing that you can recognize scuba diving illnesses treatable with emergency oxygen, and are prepared to offer aid.

There are no prerequisites, age restrictions or water sessions required for this course - it's open to everyone. Scuba divers, snorkelers and anyone who is around divers - boat crew, lifeguards, etc. - will benefit from having this training.

You'll learn about dive injuries, different types of emergency oxygen equipment and safety considerations when using oxygen.

Then you'll practice:

  • Assembling and disassembling emergency oxygen equipment.

  • Deploying a non-rebreather mask and a demand inhalator valve on a breathing diver.

  • Using a pocket mask on a nonbreathing diver.

PADI PROJECT AWARE

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About the course

Uniting scuba divers and water enthusiasts to make a difference. By earning this certification, you'll learn how you can make a difference for ocean protection every time you dive or travel.

The Project AWARE Specialty course is an introduction to the global AWARE movement for ocean protection. It focuses and expands on the 10 Tips for diver to Protect the  Ocean Planet. Through interactive discussions, you'll learn how you can make a difference for ocean protection every time you dive or travel. A dry, ‘fins off' course, this specialty is ideal for divers and non-divers alike to gain insight into how decisions above and below the surface impact our water planet.

Through classroom workshops, you will:

  • Be introduced to the AWARE movement.

  • Understand the 10 Tips for Divers to Protect the Ocean Planet.

  • Develop an action plan for how you can personally make a difference.

PADI / SSI BOAT DIVER

£150

About the Course

If you’re new to boat diving or want to learn more about diving from different types of boats, enrol in the PADI / SSI Boat Diver course. 

During two dives with an instructor you’ll learn nautical terminology, boat diving etiquette and may practice using lines and/or deploy a surface marker buoy (SMB).

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Take This Course If You Want to

  • Learn boat diving etiquette

  • Understand boat terminology

Learn How to

  • Pack for a boat trip

  • Properly stow your gear

  • Manage seasickness

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Why Take the PADI / SSI Boat Diver Course?

If you love to travel, the PADI / SSI Boat Diver Specialty course will prepare you to dive from small inflatables all the way up to large liveaboards. Learn how to enter and exit the water, use current lines and manage seasickness.

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You'll make two dives from a boat where you’ll practice entering and exiting the water and properly stowing your gear. Your instructor will also teach you about local boat diving etiquette and safety procedures.

  • Prerequisites: PADI / SSI (Junior) Open Water Diver (or qualifying entry-level-certification)

  • Total time commitment: 1-2 days

  • Minimum age: 10 years or older

PADI / SSI DRY SUIT DIVER

£150

About the Course

Unlike wetsuits, drysuits are filled with air. During your drysuit course, your instructor will teach you how to control the air in your drysuit along with your buoyancy.

You'll also learn about different types of drysuits, basic drysuit repairs and maintenance.

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Take This Course If You Want to

  • Get cold easily

  • Are curious about drysuit diving

  • Plan to buy a drysuit

Learn How to

  • Avoid common drysuit diving problems

  • Choose a drysuit and undergarments

  • Care for your drysuit

During one pool session and two open water dives, you'll learn how to comfortably and confidently dive in a drysuit. An experienced instructor will help you dial in your buoyancy and shorten the learning curve.

You'll practice taking your drysuit on and off, determine how much weight you need, and master basic drysuit skills in a pool before making two open water dives.

  • Prerequisites: PADI / SSI (Junior) Open Water Diver (or qualifying entry-level certification)

  • Total time commitment: 2-3 days

  • Minimum age: 10 years or older

PADI / SSI DEEP DIVER

£160

About the Course

During the PADI / SSI Deep Diver course, you'll learn how to plan deep dives, manage your gas supply and how to identify and manage narcosis.

You'll learn about buddy contact procedures, safety considerations and buoyancy control at depth.

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Take This Course If You Want to

  • Make deep dives with an instructor

  • See more of the underwater world

  • Dive to a maximum depth of 40m/130ft

Learn How to

  • Manage your gas supply

  • Identify and deal with narcosis

  • Recognize your personal limits

When you dive below 18 metres/60 feet, there are special safety considerations. If you're ready to expand your boundaries, a PADI / SSI Instructor will help you gain the skills and confidence to explore to a maximum depth of 40 metres/130 feet.

During four dives with a PADI / SSI Instructor, you'll practice descents, buoyancy and safety stops. Through hands-on exercises, you'll discover how deep dives affect color, physical objects and your brain.

  • Prerequisites: PADI / SSI Adventure Diver (or qualifying certification)

  • Total time commitment: 2-3 days (dives must be completed over a minimum of two days)

  • Minimum age: 15 years or older

PADI DRIFT DIVER - SSI WAVES, TIDES & CURRENTS

£160

About the Course

Diving in a current can feel like flying underwater. In the PADI / SSI Drift Diver course, you’ll learn drift diving tips from an experienced instructor and practice buoyancy control, navigation, use of surface signalling equipment and buddy communication.

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Take This Course If You Want to

  • Try drift diving with an instructor

  • Feel confident diving in a current

  • Learn about aquatic currents - causes and effects

Learn How to

  • Use surface signalling equipment

  • Stay close to your buddy

  • Make entries and descents in a current

Scuba diving in a current can be both relaxing and exhilarating. You may slowly glide over a reef, or zoom over an underwater landscape so fast it feels like flying. By the end of your drift diver course, you’ll have the skills you need to confidently go with the flow.

During two dives in a current, you’ll practice buoyancy control, navigation and buddy communication. Practice using a delayed surface marker buoy (DSMB), float, line, reel, or other drift diving safety equipment.

  • Prerequisites: PADI / SSI (Junior) Open Water Diver (or qualifying entry-level certification)

  • Total time commitment: 1-2 days

  • Minimum age: 12 years or older

PADI / SSI ENRICHED AIR DIVER

£130

About the Course

Enriched air, also known as nitrox or EANx, contains less nitrogen than regular air. Breathing less nitrogen means you can enjoy longer dives and shorter surface intervals. No wonder Enriched Air Diver is the most popular PADI /SSI specialty.

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Take This Course If You Want to

  • Get nitrox air fills

  • Stay at depth longer

  • Enjoy shorter surface intervals

Learn How to

  • Dive with nitrox

  • Use an oxygen air analyzer

  • Set your dive computer

Learn why nitrox allows you to make longer dives and how to dive nitrox safely through online independent study. Meet with your PADI / SSI Instructor for hands-on practical exercises, then make two (optional) dives.

After finishing your independent study, you'll learn how to analyze a tank, fill out an enriched air log, and set your dive computer for nitrox. There are two optional dives.

  • Prerequisites: PADI / SSI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification)

  • Total time commitment: 1-2 days

  • Minimum age: 12 years or older

  • Depth: 0

PADI / SSI EQUIPMENT SPECIALIST

£130

About the Course

Don't miss a dive due to minor issues with your scuba diving equipment. Whether it's a missing o-ring, wetsuit tear or a broken fin strap, the PADI / SSI Equipment Specialist course teaches you to manage basic repairs and adjustments. You'll also learn more about how your gear works, making you more comfortable with it and better prepared to take care of your investment.

If you're at least 10 years old and certified as a PADI / SSI (Junior) Scuba Diver or higher, you can enroll in the Equipment Specialist course.

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Take This Course If You Want to

  • Make minor gear repairs

  • Avoid missing dives due to gear issues

  • Maximize the life of your equipment

Learn How to

  • Fix equipment problems

  • Clean and maintain your gear

  • Create a save-a-dive kit

Don’t miss a dive due to a broken fin strap or wetsuit tear. Learn how to fix minor gear issues and how to clean, store and maintain your dive gear so it lasts a long time.

Get hands-on experience making minor equipment repairs and learn about different types of dive gear. Learn how to properly clean and maintain gear, and how to create a save-a-dive kit.

  • Prerequisites: PADI / SSI (Junior) Scuba Diver (or qualifying entry-level certification)

  • Total time commitment: 1 day

  • Minimum age: 10 years or older

PADI MULTILEVEL DIVER

£150

About the course

In the old days, dive profiles were calculated from the surface down to a maximum depth, then back to the surface. Now, dive computers continually analyse your depth - giving you more bottom time for going shallower and allowing you to maximize your dive time. If you'd like to understand more about dive computers and learn how you can use tools like the eRDPMLTM to plan multilevel dives, then the Multilevel Diver Specialty course is for you.


If you're a PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver who is at least 12 years old, you can enroll in the Multilevel Diver course.

You'll review decompression theory as it relates to multilevel diving and dive computer models, and plan multilevel dives using the eRDPML. During the first of your two multilevel dives, you'll plan and execute a two-level dive, and on the second dive, you'll complete a three-level scuba dive.

Get credit! The first dive of this  PADI Specialty Diver course may credit as an Adventure Dive toward your Advanced Open Water Diver certification - ask your instructor about eLearning credit.

PADI NIGHT DIVER - SSI NIGHT & LIMITED VISIBILTY

£150

About the Course

The thought of dipping below the surface at night seems mysterious, yet so alluring. Although you've been scuba diving at a site many times before, at night you drop into a whole new world and watch it come to life under the glow of your dive light. The scene changes as day creatures retire and nocturnal organisms emerge. If you've wondered what happens underwater after the sun goes down, sign up for the PADI / SSI Night Diver Specialty course.

PADI / SSI (Junior) Open Water Divers or higher, who are at least 12 years old, can enroll in the Night Diver specialty course.

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Take This Course If You Want to

  • Avoid getting lost in the dark

  • See familiar dives sites in a new light

  • Try something new and exciting

  • Make your first night dive with a pro

Learn How to

  • Navigate underwater at night

  • Make ascents and descents in the dark

  • Use your dive light for communication

Can Open Water Divers night dive? Yes, but proper training will make your first night dive more enjoyable. You’ll learn how to navigate in the dark, where the most interesting creatures hang out, and gain night diving tips from your instructor.

Practice underwater navigation at night and learn how to find entry and exit points in the dark. Your instructor will share night diving tips, teach you how to stay in contact with your buddy, and avoid disorientation.

  • Prerequisites: PADI / SSI (Junior) Open Water Diver (or qualifying entry-level certification)

  • Total time commitment: 2-3 days

  • Minimum age: 12 years or older

PADI UNDERWATER NATURALIST

£130

About the course

Take the PADI Underwater Naturalist Specialty course and you'll see new things, even on the most familiar scuba diving sites. Why? Because when know more about symbioses, underwater ecology, and aquatic plant and animal habitats, you notice behaviours and see creatures you may have previously missed. Learn more about the local ecosystem and take a closer look on your next scuba diving adventure.

PADI (Junior) Open Water Divers who are at least 10 years old are eligible to take the Underwater Naturalist Specialty course.

Through class discussions and on two scuba dives, you'll learn:



  • Key differences between the terrestrial and aquatic worlds.

  • Major aquatic life groupings, interactions and information that dispels myths.

  • Responsible interactions with aquatic life.

PADI / SSI UNDERWATER NAVIGATION

£150

About the Course

Be the scuba diver everyone wants to follow because you know where you are and where you're going. The PADI / SSI Underwater Navigator course fine-tunes your observation skills and teaches you to more accurately use your compass underwater. If you like challenges with big rewards, take this course and have fun finding your way.

If you're a PADI / SSI (Junior) Open Water Diver who is at least 10 years old, you can enroll in the PADI / SSI Underwater Navigator Specialty course.

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Take This Course If You Want to

  • Improve your navigation skills

  • Find the boat without surfacing

  • Learn natural navigation clues

Learn How to

  • Use a diving compass

  • Navigate making multiple turns

  • Estimate distance underwater

It’s easy to get disoriented underwater if you don’t know how to use a compass or natural navigation clues. Learn how to easily find your way back to boat or shore without returning to the surface and avoid long, exhausting swims.

Practice using a compass on the surface, then apply your skills underwater during three dives. Learn how to estimate distance, follow natural clues and practice finding your way back to the boat or shore.

  • Prerequisites: PADI / SSI (Junior) Open Water Diver (or qualifying entry-level certification)

  • Total time commitment: 2-3 days

  • Minimum age: 10 years or older

PADI / SSI PEAK PERFORMANCE BUOYANCE

£130

About the Course

Excellent buoyancy control is what defines skilled scuba divers. You've seen them underwater. They glide effortlessly, use less air and ascend, descend or hover almost as if by thought. They more easily observe aquatic life without disturbing their surroundings. You can achieve this, too. The PADI / SSI Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty course improves the buoyancy skills you learned as a new diver and elevates them to the next level.

PADI / SSI (Junior) Open Water Divers or higher, who are at least 10 years old, are eligible to take the Peak Performance Buoyancy course.

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Take This Course If You Want to

  • Improve your buoyancy control

  • Dive with less weight

  • Reduce your air consumption

Learn How to

  • Achieve neutral buoyancy

  • Hover effortlessly

  • Use the right amount of weight

Buoyancy control is essential to becoming a confident, relaxed diver. Being perfectly balanced allows you to float effortlessly, use air more efficiently and deftly approach skittish marine life to get a closer look.

Determine how much weight you need and where to place trim weights to streamline your body position. During two dives you’ll fine-tune your weighting during buoyancy checks and master neutral buoyancy with inwater practice.

  • Prerequisites: PADI / SSI (Junior) Open Water Diver (or qualifying entry-level certification)

  • Total time commitment: 1-2 days

  • Minimum age: 10 years or older

PADI / SSI UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHY

£130

During the PADI / SSI Digital Underwater Photographer course, you’ll learn how to take underwater photos you’ll be proud to share with others. 

Avoid beginner mistakes and shorten the learning curve with tips from the pros. Learn how to use underwater photography lights (strobes), avoid backscatter and enhance colour.

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Take This Course If You Want to

  • Share your scuba adventures

  • Reduce backscatter

  • Use your action camera underwater

Learn How to

  • Use underwater strobes

  • Photograph marine life

  • Choose photo equipment

You could spend hours learning underwater photography through trial and error, or you can take a shortcut. Learn professional tricks and tips for taking great photos underwater and the best way to capture video while scuba diving with a GoPro (or other action camera).

During two dives you’ll get hands-on experience taking photos with a compact camera or action camera (use your own or ask about rental). You’ll use the SEA (Shoot, Examine, Adjust) method for getting great shots.

  • Prerequisites: Certified PADI / SSI diver / Jr. OW Diver (or qualifying certification)

  • Total time commitment: 2 days

  • Minimum age: 10 years or older

PADI RNLI SEA SURVIVAL

£160

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PADI / SSI SEARCH AND RECOVERY

£160

About the Course

The next time someone loses an item underwater, you can be the hero that finds the missing object.

 

In the PADI / SSI Search and Recovery course, you’ll learn how to find lost objects underwater. You’ll practice different types of underwater search patterns and learn how to use a lift bag as you plan and execute mock search operations.

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Take This Course If You Want to

  • Recover lost items

  • Learn underwater search patterns

  • Improve your navigation skills

Learn How to

  • Find things underwater

  • Use a lift bag

  • Plan a search operation

Finding items underwater is both challenging and rewarding. You need to know how to gather information, organize a search and choose an effective underwater search pattern. Your PADI / SSI Instructor will give you practice scenarios to build and hone your skills.

During four dives, you'll locate objects large and small using different search patterns. You’ll get hands-on experience using a lift bag and, on the last dive, you’ll plan and execute a mock search operation.

  • Total time commitment: 2-3 days (dives must be completed over two days minimum)

  • Minimum Age: 12

  • Course prerequisites: PADI / SSI (Jr.) Advanced Open Water or (Jr.) Open Water with Underwater Navigation certification

PADI / SSI WRECK DIVER

£160

About the Course

Whether purpose-sunk as an artificial reef for scuba divers, or lost as the result of an accident, wrecks are fascinating windows to the past. Ships, airplanes and even cars are fascinating to explore and usually teem with aquatic life. Each wreck dive offers a chance for discovery, potentially unlocking a mystery or spying something others have missed. The PADI / SSI Wreck Diver Specialty course is popular because it offers rewarding adventures while observing responsible wreck diving practices.

If you're at least 15 years old and have earned a PADI / SSI Adventure Diver certification or higher, you can enroll in the Wreck Diver Specialty course.

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Take This Course If You Want to

  • Explore inside wrecks

  • See fascinating artifacts

  • Learn special finning techniques

Learn How to

  • Survey a wreck

  • Use lines and reels

  • Avoid common problems

Every wreck is different. During the PADI / SSI Wreck Diver course, you’ll learn how to explore different types of wrecks by investigating their layout, history and hazards, and practice specialized wreck diving skills.

During four dives with your instructor, you’ll survey and map a wreck, practice special finning techniques and may use penetration lines.

  • Prerequisites: PADI / SSI Adventure Diver (or qualifying certification)

  • Total time commitment: 2-3 days (dives must be completed over a minimum of two days)

  • Minimum age: 15 years or older

PADI / SSI FULL FACE MASK DIVER

£150

About the course

Diving with a full face mask allows you to breathe from your nose and mouth, and provides added comfort in colder water. The mask can also be fitted with communication gear, which can be useful for various types of specialty diving.

Working divers, such as public safety divers, use full face masks because they protect the eyes and nose from contaminants in the water, provide comfort in cold water, and allow for communication. If you're interested public safety diving, scientific diving, or venturing into extremely cold-water, then learning to dive with a full face mask is definitely for you. Because full face masks allow you to breathe from your nose, they are also beneficial for those who have difficulty using standard scuba masks. Diving with a full face mask offers a different experience and that alone may be reason to give it a try.

You need to be a PADI / SSI Open Water Diver who is at least 12 years old to enroll in the Full Face Mask Diver course.

The mask can also be fitted with communication gear, which can be useful for various types of specialty diving.

There are several different types of full face masks, so you begin learning about varying mask features and components. Next, you learn techniques for preparing and diving with a full face mask as well as proper maintenance. During a confined water dive, you get comfortable using your mask and practice skills in preparation for your open water dives. In open water, during two dives, you'll demonstrate your ability to:

  • Properly prepare and check your mask for the dive.

  • Make adjustments underwater and clear water out of the mask.

  • Respond to simulated out-of-gas emergency situations.

Get credit! The first dive of this PADI / SSI Specialty Diver course may credit as an Adventure Dive toward your Advance Open Water Diver certification - ask your instructor about earning credit.

AND MANY MORE COURSES AVAILABLE 
 

DIVING COST'S

1 YEAR CLUB MEMBERSHIP

£100pp per annum

Membership includes; 4 free pool session, discounted pool sessions, discounted boat dives plus free Scuba kit hire, 10% discount at Sharks Scuba Servicing.

DISCOVER LOCAL DIVE (guided dive)

£25pp per day
Non - Member

unsure of a dive site or new to diving and want someone guided you around the sites points of interest, provide you with local dive knowledge, procedures and become a safer diver.

DICOVER LOCAL DIVE (guided dive)

£20pp per day 
Member

unsure of a dive site or new to diving and want someone guided you around the sites points of interest, provide you with local dive knowledge, procedures and become a safer diver.

BOAT DIVE

£25pp per dive
Non - Member

We run regular dive trips from Harbour Lights Scuba Diving Club dive boat (Rhib) based in Portland.
Weather permitting!

BOAT DIVE

£20pp per dive
Member

We run regular dive trips from Harbour Lights Scuba Diving Club dive boat (Rhib) based in Portland.
Weather permitting!

FULL EQUIPMENT HIRE

£30pp per day

Hire full dive equipment for use while diving with us.

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