Training

Learn to Dive with SCUBA CLASS!

Everybody over the age of ten and in normal health is welcome to Discover Scuba Diving at one of our pool training sessions.

The Way the World Learns to Dive!

The PADI Open Water Diver course is the most recognised diving certification in the world.

It consists of three sections:



• Knowledge Development:

This is the academic section of the course.
You will read the five chapters of the PADI Open Water Diver manual and complete the Knowledge Review at the end of each chapter as home study. There are five, forty minute videos to accompany the five chapters, which preview the skills to be learned in the pool. You will take a series of multi-choice tests followed by a final exam during the classroom sessions, on the two days of your referral course.
All home study exercises must be completed before attending the course. Failure to complete will require students to join the next available course

• Confined Water:

This is the swimming pool section of the course.
Initially you will undertake a Watermanship test to ensure that you are able to support yourself in the water should you fall off a boat or quay. It consists of a two-hundred metre swim (any style and no time limit) followed by a ten minute float or tread water. During this section you will complete five pool dives which will require you to assemble and dismantle your equipment for each dive. Over the five dives you will learn the skills to allow you to dive safely within the limits of your certification.

• Open Water:

This is the lake or ocean section of the course.
You will make four qualifying dives, during which you will be required to demonstrate some of the skills that you have learned in the confined water section. These dives are made in the deeper, cooler waters in which you will make future dives. They may be made at any Dive Centre around the world once the first two sections of the course have been successfully completed.

Academic and pool training may be completed for only £250.00. DVDs optional extra £30.00

Open Water Diver referral courses start every eight weeks at our pool See Calendar for dates.

Your referral course consists of two Sunday morning classroom reviews of your home study, followed by pool diving lessons in the afternoons.


The PADI Scuba Diver is an abbreviated version of the course providing a restricted qualification to anybody with insufficient time or ability to complete the full course. It requires study of only three chapters of the manual, three confined water dives and two open water qualifying dives.

Qualified divers who need to refresh their dive skills prior to a diving holiday may participate in a PADI Scuba Review. This is an opportunity to practise the open water course skills under the supervision of an Instructor, in the pool rather than wasting a day's diving with check out dives on your holiday.

It all starts with a phone call:

01483 548211






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