Dive Courses
We offer a full range of diving and ecology courses that are recognised around the world. Our preferred agency to gain your qualification is SSI, but we are also qualified to offer PADI. We can also teach basic freediving courses.
Scuba courses are from entry-level all the way through to instructor and technical diving training. We aim to help develop divers from age 8+ to become safe and proficient scuba divers.
We aim to provide a relaxed and fun learning environment so that you enjoy learning, with small class sizes and passionate instructors, so that you can master the art of scuba diving at your own pace, within a safe, fun, and friendly environment. Our instructors have years of worldwide and local teaching experience.
Try Scuba Diving/ Basic Diver
Try scuba sessions allow you to experience the thrill of breathing underwater in a fun & exciting Scuba adventure in the pool. The basic diver gives you a taster of what scuba is like within the ocean.
Both programs are designed for complete beginners to give you a taste of Scuba without the commitment to a course. From 10 years old, you can do Basic scuba diver, and from 8 in the pool.
If you enjoy your try scuba or want to take it further, you can enroll in the openwater course.
Snorkelling
A snorkeling experience lets you see what lies below without full scuba gear! You will learn how to use a mask, snorkel, and fins, how to breathe and swim with a snorkel, and how to safely perform a duck dive if you take our basic snorkel course! You will be guided by one of our experienced guides. We even have an active snorkel club where we snorkel different sites around Jersey. Bouley bay and Portlet Bay are also home to Jersey’s snorkel trails.
Open Water
The Open Water Diver course is the Learn To Dive program for beginners, qualifying you to 18 meters.
The Certification is recognised worldwide and is your ticket to discover what the underwater world has to offer!
The course is over 4 days, either Monday through Thursday or Thursday, Friday evening, and all day Saturday and Sunday. The course consists of digital learning, pool sessions, and openwater dives as well as interactive workshops with our qualified instructors. Check out the calendar for these dates.
Advanced Open Water
Advanced Open Water Diver is 5 adventure dives which allow you to incorporate exciting new experiences such as Navigation, wreck, deep and Night diving!
learning new skills; enhancing your knowledge and confidence The advanced course will qualify you to dive 30 meters(21m under 15’s).
Refresher
This is designed for qualified divers who want to refresh their diving skills and knowledge, and to gain confidence if they haven’t dived for a while.
The refresher includes some theory, skills, and a dive in the sea. 2 dive options are also available, as well as a pool-only options.
If it’s been a very long time, you can do an SSI scuba skills update with a New e-card or Reactivate PADI course.
Stress and Rescue
The Stress and Rescue course introduces the necessary skills required to cope in the unlikely event of a diving incident.
The courses will build your confidence as a diver. The course will teach you how to prevent and handle diver emergencies.
Skills will include techniques to deal with tired, panicked, unresponsive, and unconscious divers, both on the surface and underwater, including in-water rescue breathing techniques and safe exits. If you wish to take stress and rescue with SSI, you will need to be open water level. We can offer PADI rescue diver, and you will need to be an Advanced Open Water.
Divemaster
The Divemaster course is the first step on the ladder for those with an interest in a career in the scuba diving industry, who are interested in training others to scuba dive. You will learn how to manage a dive, plan a dive and assist students in diving. Through the course you will shadow our experienced instructors and take part in various mentor sessions and workshops. The course includes a digital theory pack to increase your dive knowledge and theory.
Specialities
Speciality Diver courses teach you new techniques and give you the tools to enhance your exploration of the underwater world.
The following specialities are some that are available:
Deep Diver, Boat Diver, Drift Diver, Dry Suit, Diver, Nitrox, Night Diver, low visibility, Nudibranch speciality, Buoyancy, Underwater Digital Photographer, Underwater Navigator, Search and Recovery, Self Reliant diver, Wreck Diver and more.
SideMount
Experience the balance and efficiency of side-mount scuba diving. Many divers find side mount tanks are more comfortable and easier to put on in the water. Sidemount diving is also beneficial for divers who want improved balance and prolonged dives. We offer the chance to experience side mount in the discover side mount program as well as to take it further with the specialty course.
Tec 40
The PADI Tec 40 course is where you transition from recreational scuba diving to technical diving. It's a great place to start because it's the first subdivision of the full PADI Tec Diver course and bridges the gap between no stop diving and full technical deep decompression diving. You gain experience and begin building the knowledge and skills you need to continue your tec diver training. You will qualify to make limited decompression dives to 40 metres.
Tec 45
The PADI Tec 45 course is the second part of the full PADI Tec Deep Diver program. You'll extend your depth limit to 45 metres and learn to plan and execute repetitive decompression dives using a single stage/decompression cylinder. You'll also make accelerated decompression dives using EANx or pure oxygen. This is a course where you'll rise to the challenge and make the commitment to become a technical diver.
Tec 50
The third part of the full PADI Tec Deep Diver program is Tec 50. As a Tec 50 diver, you show that you've developed competency as a tec diver and have the skills to dive to a maximum of 50 metres. You know how to make extended, accelerated decompression stops using up to two gases. It's not easy to reach this level and earning your Tec 50 certification opens the door to deeper diving expeditions.