Learn to Scuba Dive
We are a PADI 5star Centre only 20 minutes from Brighton.
Ocean View Diving Services offer PADI Diving courses throughout the year. With a team of PADI trained staff, we can offer courses from beginner up to professional qualifications.
We have our own heated pool and classroom onsite, we can therefore offer your initial course all under one roof.
Discover Scuba Diving
Book a Discover Scuba Diving session to see what it feels like to breathe underwater.
The taster session provides a fantastic experience, and also provides a solid basis for all PADI training and education.
PADI Courses
These PADI courses get you started, and then develop your diving skills
PADI Discover Scuba Diving
Book a Discover Scuba Diving session to see what it feels like to breathe underwater.
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PADI Open Water course
A PADI Open Water Certificate is your invitation to the most exhilarating spectacles Mother Nature has to offer.
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PADI Open Water Referral
As a PADI Open Water diver, you are invited to experience some of the most beautiful and interesting places that the planet has to offer
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PADI Advanced Open Water
The Advanced Open Water Diver course helps you build your confidence and skills to become more comfortable in the water.
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PADI Rescue Diver
The PADI Rescue Diver course teaches you to increase your safety, recognise problems before they occur
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Emergency First Response
irst aid and CPR are good skills for anyone to learn, especially those involved in adventure sports – just in case.
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PADI Drysuit Diver
Extend your diving season! If you want to stay warm and toasty, feeling comfortable in cooler water, you will want to dive in a dry suit.
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PADI Enriched Air (Nitrox)
Scuba diving with enriched air nitrox gives you more no decompression dive time.
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PADI Deep Diver
After your first few dives, you soon want to explore a bit deeper. Dive with confidence at depths to 40m
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Peak Performance Buoyancy
A PADI Open Water Certificate is your invitation to the most exhilarating spectacles Mother Nature has to offer.
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D.S.M.B Specialty
Surface marker Buoys should be an integral part of your scuba dive gear. Be safe! Be seen.
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ReActivate / Refresher
If you haven’t been diving for some time, a Refresher is important for you to feel comfortable and safe.
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PADI Wreck Diver
The PADI Wreck Diver Specialty shows you how to safely dive on a piece of history.
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PADI Underwater Navigation
Finding your way to that beautiful reef could be a breeze, the PADI Navigation course shows you how.
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Equipment Specialist
Book a Discover Scuba Diving session to see what it feels like to breathe underwater.
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Specialty Courses
These PADI courses offer you the chance to get a deeper understanding of the type of diving you enjoyThese PADI courses offer you the chance to get a deeper understanding of the type of diving you enjoy.
Below are a couple of our most popular courses.
DRYSUIT
If you want to explore the wrecks in the seas around the UK coast, then dive dry!
Drysuit CourseENRICHED AIR NITROX
Scuba diving with enriched air nitrox gives you more no decompression dive time.
Nitrox CourseWe also teach other courses
A selection of our non-scuba courses
It’s not just scuba diving we teach, we have some other water based and first aid courses for people who are not divers.
COURSE SCHEDULE
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PADI Open Water Course May 2025
PADI Open Water Course May 2025 Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th – Pool and Classroom Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th – Lake Dives The Open Water Course is[…]
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PADI TecRec Gas Blender Course November 2025
We will be running the PADI TecRec Gas Blender course on Saturday 15th November 2025. More people are diving with enriched air. The Enriched Air Diver course is the most popular[…]
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FIRST AID Emergency First Response March 2026
First Aid Emergency First Response March 2026 FIRST AID COURSE Build your confidence and learn the skills you need to step up if an emergency situation were to ever happen[…]
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Your one-stop shop for all of
your scuba diving needs
A little bit about us here at Ocean View: The dive centre originally opened on this site in 1994. It has seen a lot of changes over the years. Diving has evolved over the years as well, it is a fantastic sport enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of people all over the world.
Diving opens up the underwater world, a place like no other. There are amazing sights to behold under the waves, be it dolphins, clown fish, sharks, turtles, whale sharks, wrecks or reefs, whatever it is that takes your fancy, there is something for everyone.
Meet the team
The team here at Ocean View are passionate about diving, our number one concern is your safety, whether we are teaching you to dive, or servicing your dive equipment, below is a little bit more about us.The team here at Ocean View are passionate about diving, our number one concern is your safety, whether we are teaching you to dive, or servicing your dive equipment, below is a little bit more about us.
Graeme Pace
Joint owner of Ocean View Diving and Southern Cylinder Services.
Graeme learnt to dive in Northamptonshire over 25 years ago. Since then all of his training has been carried out in UK waters. Graeme became a PADI Pro in 2004 and completed his IDC at Stoney Cove in 2005. He has dived extensively both at home and abroad.
Now Graeme spends most of his time behind the scenes, running both the dive centre and our sister company Southern Cylinder Services. He also does the dirty jobs like checking out various dive locations all around the globe.
Carl Foley
Joint owner of Ocean View Diving and Southern Cylinder Services.
Job Description to come
Matt Rich
Joint owner of Ocean View Diving and Southern Cylinder Services.
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Angela Phillips
PADI Instructor M.S.D.T
Angela learnt to dive in the balmy waters of Stoney Cove in Leicestershire in 2001, and continued to do all of her training in the UK, with her PADI Instructor course back at Stoney Cove in 2008.
Angela is one of our full time PADI instructors, able to teach PADI Seals right up to Divemaster, with lots of Specialty courses in between.
She is also now one of our two PADI Freediving Instructors at the centre, developing our training abilities whenever she can.
Andy Langler
PADI Instructor M.S.D.T
Andy is a very experienced diver and became a PADI instructor in 2011.
He is a Master Scuba Diver Trainer and an EFR instructor as well as being qualified to teach a number of PADI specialties.
He is also a sidemount instructor and enjoys technical diving.
Pash Baker
Instructor
Pash is one of our two PADI Freediving Instructors at the centre, developing our training abilities whenever she can.
Pash has been diving in a few far flung placeshas been diving in a few far flung places. She is a fantastic underwater photographer with images featured in major dive magazines.
Teresa Jones
PADI Divemaster
Teresa certified as an Open Water diver with Ocean View in 2018, here in the UK.
It was an experience that exceeded all her expectations, so she decided to continue with her training & became a Divemaster in early 2022.
She has dived in Australia & Maldives.
She is now part of the Ocean View team & is excited to introduce new divers to this incredible sport.
Bob Sullivan
PADI Divemaster
Bob learnt to dive in the warm waters of Lanzarote in 2004.
He has been part of the team since 2015 and you will find him helping all ages to get the most out of their training experience.
