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As part of our PADI Specialty of the Month programme in 2019, we will be running the PADI Tec Rec Gas Blender course on Sunday 17th March.

More people are diving with enriched air. The Enriched Air Diver course is the most popular PADI Specialty course, this means the demand for enriched air fills is increasing.

However, there needs to be someone qualified to administer these fills to meet this demand. This is where the PADI Gas Blender course comes in. The TecRec Gas Blender course will give the ability to deliver these fills to your customers.

It can result in one of two certifications: PADI Gas Blender or PADI Trimix Blender.

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As part of our PADI Specialty of the Month programme in 2019, we will be running the PADI Enriched Air Nitrox Diver course on Sunday 16th June.

The PADI Enriched Air 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.

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Friday 5th, Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th July 2019.

Diving on a piece of history is a lure to many divers. Wrecks provide a challenge, a mystery, and are usually teeming with aquatic life.

Whether sunk on purpose as an artificial reef or the result of mishap, wrecks open fascinating windows to the past. Most divers find wrecked ships, aeroplanes nearly irresistible because they’re intriguing to explore, exciting avenues of discovery, and usually teeming with aquatic life. The PADI Wreck Diver course teaches you the ins and outs of rewarding, responsible wreck diving.

We are running a weekend at N.D.A.C in July to get the full benefit of the Wreck course. We have access to several different ‘wrecks’ at varying depths.

The water temperature at 30 metres is approximately 8-10 degrees, we advise that you should be drysuit trained, and comfortable in the drysuit, to make these dives, however if you choose to use a wetsuit, please be advised this will be cold.

We will also be running the PADI Deep Diver course over the weekend alongside the Wreck course.

If you wish to take both the Deep and Wreck course you will need to be with us for three days, meaning we will start the dives on Friday, but only if you are doing both courses.

If you want to take only one of the courses you will need to be available for the Saturday and Sunday, we start early so best to get up there the night before.

N.D.A.C – The National Diving and Activity Centre – at Chepstow is the perfect place to take these specialty courses. There are lots of wrecks to learn on, with lots of interesting places to explore on your deep dives. Both the Deep and Wreck specialty courses require four dives each, which need to be spread out over two days, so we stay up for the weekend, to make the most of your time up there.

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Transport, accommodation and food is not included in the course fee.

Four divers needed for the course to run.