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Children’s Courses Christmas 2020
Whilst we are all stuck in Lockdown 2.0, the Dive centre can still offer you vouchers for your young diving adventurer.
Just call or email the shop, we can do this all digitally, it might just take a day or so to get it finalised as we are not actually in the shop all of the time.
If you have a youngster in the family who would love learn to dive, we can offer Childrens PADI Courses specific to their age.
These would make amazing Christmas presents. Give the Gift of Adventure!!
CHILDRENS PADI COURSES
The Bubblemaker Session is a chance to see if they like the experience of breathing underwater and if this is something they would like to do again, because it’s always better to have a trial before booking the complete course.
Conducted by one of our highly qualified Instructors in our onsite heated pool, the intrepid explorers will experience the exhilarating sensations of breathing underwater and being completely weightless in our totally safe environment.
The PADI Seal Team takes them through their first few diving skills in a controlled safe and fun course.
At Ocean View we turn 8-11 year old novice water babies into highly trained underwater Aquanauts. This is great to do with your friends but is also a fantastic way to make some new ones.
This is a pool-only experience, and is conducted by certified, trained PADI Professionals. These adventures teach your young explorers excellent skills and sets some fun and unique underwater challenges.
The PADI Master Seal Team course allows PADI Seals to continue diving, learning lots of new skill during 10 fun Aquamissions, and they build on their previous experience.
This is a pool-only experience and is conducted by certified, trained PADI Professionals. These adventures teach your young explorers excellent skills and sets some fun and unique underwater challenges.
Speak to us to find out more!
Christmas Gift Vouchers 2020
One less thing to worry about!
Whilst we are all stuck in Lockdown 2.0, the Dive centre can still offer you vouchers for your diving family, friends and buddies.
Just call or email the shop, we can do this all digitally, it might just take a day or so to get it finalised as we are not actually in the shop all of the time.
Are you stuck for a gift for your loved one this Christmas?
Are they fed up with socks?? – unless they are drysuit socks of course 😉
A gift voucher from Ocean View could be your answer.
If your partner, family member or friend is already a diver, we can offer vouchers of any amount over £5.
If you know someone who would love to give diving a go or learn to dive, a voucher for a Discover Scuba Diving session or a PADI Open Water Course would be amazing, we can create vouchers for any course of piece of dive equipment.
Even if you leave it till the last minute, a PDF voucher can be arranged really quickly.
We look forward to seeing you all in December
Sealife release Underwater housing for iPhone
SeaLife Launches New Underwater Housing for iPhone®
SeaLife is introducing a new compact and lightweight underwater housing for Apple’s iPhone, which allows divers to take photos and video with their iPhone down to 40 meters. The SportDiver can encase iPhone 7, 7 Plus, 8, 8 Plus, X, Xr, Xs, Xs Max, 11, 11 Pro Max, and SE (2nd Gen) models. The heavy-duty housing is constructed of Polycarbonate, stainless steel, aluminum and optical grade glass. With its weight of less than 641 grams it is perfect for travelling and offers almost neutral buoyancy in water depending on which iPhone model is used.
The SportDiver is easy to use and offers a large shutter lever and rear control buttons for easy operation, even with dive gloves. Divers can get creative by using advanced camera settings. Adjust Zoom, Exposure (EV), Auto/Manual Focus, White Balance, Tint, Lens selection, RAW+JPEG mode, Live Photo and Background Blur (on available iPhone models).
The SportDiver housing includes the free SeaLife SportDiver camera app for iOS 12 and up. The user can easily switch between photo and video mode. The SportDiver App uses the iPhone camera technology native to each iPhone® model.
For the phone’s safety and protection, the SportDiver has a sturdy holding spring and rubber grip tabs that securely hold the iPhone® in place and add shock-protection. The SportDiver has “Dual Leak Alarms” which include an internal moisture alarm and a vacuum pressure alarm which alert the diver with on-screen warnings, audio and LED signal in the unlikely event the waterproof seal is compromised and there’s a loss of housing pressure or moisture is detected. The door of the SportDiver is sealed with a TPE O-ring and a robust cam-lock sealing latch that easily and securely locks waterproof door.
The SportDiver Underwater Housing for iPhone is also available as SportDiver Pro 2500 Set with Sea Dragon 2500 underwater light and single tray.
PADI Enriched Air Nitrox Diver Specialty 22nd November 2020
We will be running our next PADI Enriched Air Nitrox Diver course on Sunday 22nd November.
RE-SCHEDULED for 12th DECEMBER
The PADI Enriched Air Nitrox Diver course is PADI’s most popular specialty scuba diving course, and it’s easy to see why. Scuba diving with enriched air nitrox gives you more no decompression dive time. This means more time underwater, especially on repetitive scuba dives.
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.