Continuing Education Courses

PADI Adventure Diver–Simple! Pick any 3 Adventure Dives (excluding Deep). Complete the Knowledge Review for each dive, do the dive with one of the instructors and after three dives-become a PADI Adventure Diver!

Course price includes personal Adventures in Diving crewpack, knowledge development sessions, 3 Adventure Dives, confined water sessions (where appropriate), use of all necessary gear, air fills, dive site entry fees and PADI certification.

PADI Advanced Open Water Diver–the next step. Most Open Water divers chose this course to further their education and build some supervised experience. Consists of 5 Adventure Dives, of which one must be a Navigation Dive and one a Deep Dive. Unlike some schools, we do the Deep dive at a site where we can reach a reasonable depth-vital if the course is to be worth doing! While we are at our deep site, we tend to do an extra dive for experience as well-this is included in the price!

Course price includes personal Adventures in Diving crewpack, knowledge development sessions, 5 Adventure Dives, confined water sessions (where appropriate), use of all necessary gear, air fills, dive site entry fees and PADI certification.

We also offer the opportunity to complete Adventure Dives on a dive- by-dive basis.

Coming to us from abroad? Got the diving bug on holiday? Want to continue diving at home? We often get asked what divers who have trained abroad should do to “get into” UK diving. We typically recommend either Adventure Diver or Advanced Open Water as above. We will do a Drysuit Adventure Dive first-this incorporates a confined water session to ease you in gradually! You would then get a further two or five supervised dives in the UK environment, an excellent way to transfer your skills to the UK environment. For those who are already Advanced Open Water, we recommend Drysuit Diver Speciality.

PADI Speciality Courses-these are a great way of improving your skills, and study various topics in diving in more depth. Within the PADI system, they represent the way to obtain specific skills and abilities as well as gain supervised experience and have a great time.

1. Digital Underwater Photographer- an excellent introduction to using a digital camera to bring home memories. Two dives taking pictures and some hands-on experience using editing software.

2. Dry Suit Diver- for those who have trained in warmer climes! Staying warm is about equipment and technique-not water temperature! Learn how!

3. Enriched Air Diver–our most popular course-why use air when there are better alternatives? Simple theory, non diving course. Crewpack includes EANx Tables. 

4. Underwater Navigator—another skill most people tend to struggle with. This course will demystify bearings, reciprocals and kick cycles! Very popular!

5. Search and Recovery Diver— 4 dives covering search patterns, rigging and lifting objects. Manual and DVD covers theory.

6. Drift Diver*- techniques to turn current to our advantage. The lazy way to dive!

7. Boat Diver* - most diving involves them!

8. Multilevel (computer) Diver—learn how to use computers and the Wheel correctly, and understand more about diving theory. Includes personal wheel

9. Night Diver– 3 dives in the dark!

10. Peak Performance Buoyancy—the most important skill you can master.

11. Underwater Naturalist*-learn about the environment and the ecosystem you dive in. £100

12. AWARE Fish ID*- makes fish spotting more fun!

13. Underwater Photographer-bring back pictures! 

14. Underwater Videographer– bring back moving pictures!

15. Wreck Diver*- includes limited wreck penetration skills.

16. Deep Diver*- understand more about planning and executing deeper dives. Extends recommended depth limits to 40m. 

17. Project AWARE—non diving speciality about our precious marine resources 

18. AWARE Coral Reef Conservation-as above, but specific to Coral reef areas 

19. Equipment Specialist-learn how it works, and how to look after it! 

All courses include crewpack and video (where available), gear hire, gas fills, dive site entry fees and PADI certification. Courses marked * are normally conducted in conjunction with trips away.

Master Scuba Diver-this is the highest diving qualification within the PADI system. It represents an excellent goal for any diver. It consists of Rescue Diver, 5 specialities as above and 50 logged dives. We offer packages in getting this “black belt” of diving. Please ask us for details.

Scuba Review-not been able to dive for a while? Scuba Review is a pool based PADI program that aims to re introduce you to those skills. It is mandatory for anyone who hasn’t dived for six months or longer, but is a good idea anytime! It also has a self-study Scuba Tune up workbook to refresh your theory.

Discover Local Diving-an opportunity to be guided around the underwater (and above water) attractions! All Discover Local Diving programs are subject to HSE guidelines, hence there will always be an instructor and Divemaster in the water with you, as well as Surface Support.

Rescue and First Aid Courses

“control, care, confidence”

PADI Rescue Diver– One of our most popular courses. Usually run over 3 days, Rescue Diver will give you the knowledge, skills and most importantly confidence necessary to become a truly independent diver. It consists of 5 knowledge development sessions, 10 Rescue training exercises and 4 open water scenarios. Uniquely, it does not involve much time underwater-rescues normally occur at the surface!

We are fortunate in that the majority of the skill development is done in confined open water, rather than a pool. This gives more time to master the skills in a “real world” environment. If you have any doubts as to how good our course is-ask any of those that have done it!

Course price includes personal Rescue Diver crewpack, DVD, knowledge development  sessions, all open water scenario sessions (where appropriate), use of all necessary gear, air fills, dive site entry fees and PADI certification.

We incorporate the DAN 0² for Diving Accidents into all our Rescue programs, and offer package prices if EFR First Aid programs are included as well. Please call/mail for prices

Emergency First Response Full course with AED–we are proud to offer this course as an ideal First Aid qualification to match up with our Rescue Course above, but also as an excellent First Aid program for work or interest. The world would be a safer place if everyone had to complete this course! We tend to teach the primary and secondary courses and make use of our AED trainer, so that the course is as complete as possible.

Usually run over one day. The course meets the requirements for an HSE Appointed Person in the Workplace. Retraining is required every two years-once the course is completed with us, we do this for free

Course price includes EFR student manual, bandage kit, EFR DVD, all training and EFR certification fees. Please call/mail for prices

Emergency First Response Care for Children Course-a unique paediatric First Aid program suitable for anyone who deals with children, or children themselves!

Can be run as a stand alone program or integrated into the Primary and Secondary courses as above

Course price includes EFR Care for Children student manual, EFR Care for Children DVD, all training and EFR certification fees.

Course available as a stand alone program or integrated into Primary/Secondary Care courses

DAN Diving First Aid Courses  A series of courses, which are a must for every diver! They are the only diving First Aid qualifications that provide liability protection in the event of legal action against you, well worth considering as an instructor or world traveller.

All the following courses include student packs, all theory sessions/practical and certification fees. We offer discounted re-training for our students as well. Please call/mail for prices

0² First Aid for Diving Accidents-provides an extension of general First Aid to diving specific injuries. One day –theory and scenarios. 

Advanced 0² Provider- Advanced Life Support for Diving Injuries. Covers positive pressure masks, 2 person CPR etc.

First Aid for Hazardous Marine Life Injuries- How to deal with marine life injuries-ideal for the travelling diver

Automated External Defibrillation-early defibrillation is the key to survival for most primary care patients. Learn how to use one!

We can combine the above into the Diving First Responder program (DFR). This two day program will prepare you to cope with almost any diving emergency.  Anyone diving in remote locations or involved in expedition or technical diving should really consider this course as mandatory, but it is ideal for all divers or those who spend time around divers!

EFR and DAN Instructor courses –We can offer instructor level training for the EFR family of courses (available to anyone) and the DAN courses (available to PADI Divemaster or equivalent and above) Please see our Instructor course list for further detail