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PADI Self-Reliant Diver Specialty July 2021

We will be running the PADI Self-Reliant Diver course on Sunday 25th July and Saturday 31st July.

The purpose of the Self-Reliant Diver specialty course is to recognize and accept the role of the buddy system and its contributions to diver safety while identifying and developing self-reliance and independence while diving.

You will develop your skills of planning and carrying out dives without a partner when preferred or necessary, sharpening skills of diving self-reliance, making the diver a stronger partner in a dive pair or team.

There are no home study materials for this course, however we do run a classroom session to go over the theory portion of the course, this will be held on Sunday 25th July at 10am. The 3 lake dives will be held the following weekend on Saturday 31st July.

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PADI Self-Reliant Diver Specialty July 2021

Enriched Air Nitrox Course – Sunday 1st August

We all want to stay longer on that reef or wreck, it isn’t always our breathing rate that brings us up before we want to, often we still have plenty of air left but our No Decompression Limit (NDL) brings us back up.

You will need to do a small amount of home study before the course, this is all now done with the digital PADI home study eLearning material. You don’t need to come to the shop to get the course arranged if you don’t want to, this part of the course can all be arranged via email or over the phone, the course can be paid for via bank transfer or credit card, we will then send you the code for your home study, with instructions how to do this, of course if you want to pop in and say hello it would be great to see you.

To keep our students and staff safe, despite the current restrictions being dropped soon, we will still limit the student numbers on this course to make sure distancing is still possible.

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PADI Advanced Open Water course April and May 2022

Take the next step on from your Open Water course, move forward with PADI Advanced Open Water certification.

This will be split over two weekends during April and May 2022.

SUNDAY 10th April – Wraysbury

We will be doing the Navigation Dive, the Peak Performance Buoyancy Dive and the D.S.M.B  or Search & Recovery Dives

SATURDAY 21st May – Stoney Cove

We will be doing the Deep Dive and the Wreck Dive.

You will need to do a small amount of home study before the course, this is all now done with the digital PADI home study eLearning material. You don’t need to come to the shop to get the course arranged and access your digital home study, we can arrange it over the phone or via email, or you can pop into the centre to book this and sort out all of your paperwork. The course can be paid for via BACS or credit card, we will then send you the code for your home study, with instructions how to do this.

Due to water temperatures in April/May, we advise you to be drysuit trained to take courses in the earlier parts of the year, particularly the Deeper dives. However if you want to do these dives in a wetsuit, it is your choice.

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All courses currently being advertised are subject to us being open as per the restriction easing update announced on 22nd February.

Take the next step on from your Open Water course, move forward with PADI Advanced Open Water certification.

Whilst we are at NDAC on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th July, we will be running the Deep Dive and Wreck Dive to complete your PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course.

We are running the first part of the Advanced course on Sunday 9th May.

We will be doing the Deep Dive, and the Wreck Dive towards your Advanced certification.
Going on deeper dives (upto 30m on the Advanced course) involves more planning and careful monitoring, do this safely with our team to ensure you get the best form the dive in a safe manner. Your fist twirl around a wreck will be a careful watchful experience, where yui learn to look for points of interest, hazard points, potential points of entry for when you are fully Wreck trained. This will certainly get you on your way to investigating wrecks, and maybe moving onto the Wreck Specialty

You will need to do a small amount of home study before the course, this is all now done with the digital PADI home study eLearning material. You don’t need to come to the shop to get the course arranged and access your digital home study, this part of the course can all be arranged via email, we can do all of this whilst the shop is still closed to the public as per current regulations, the course can be paid for via BACS, we will then send you the code for your home study, with instructions how to do this.

The water temperature in July at depth is usually around 7-8 degrees for thermal protection information, we recommend you are comfortable in a drysuit to do these dives, or have done your course with us in May to get a few dives in before hand, if you choose to do this in a wetsuit, please know you need to make sure it is thick enough for the temperature at depth, and you WILL need hood and gloves.

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