Course Fee: £95.00 Fully Inclusive

An excellent program for a Dive Holiday but equally rewarding in UK waters too where you need to look for what’s there! – where you’ll learn to understand the beauty and complexity of the aquatic ecosystem and incredible diversity of wildlife like Corals & Crabs, Seahorses & Sharks!

The TWO DIVES on this program help create awareness and responsible diver behaviour towards the underwater world.

You'll identify a variety of animals both vertebrates and invertebrates and aquatic plants, and observe the interactive nature of the marine environment through symbiotic and predator/prey relationships.

This is a great course to begin a life-long interest in marine biology.

Course Fee: £165.00 Fully Inclusive

Designed to de-mystify how to get from A to B to C and back again underwater.

In THREE DIVES you’ll master the art of natural navigation, distance estimation and compass work to take the stress out of route-finding.

You'll also complete a position fixing exercise to relocate wrecks etc, and you’ll learn how to use the PADI Nav-Finder, before the final challenge of completing a multi-leg navigation challenge where you put it all to the test.

A series of slates positioned underwater with instructions as to where to go will not phase you by the end of this course. Underwater bearings and distances—no problem! Like a US Navy SEAL you will emerge victorious exactly where predicted!!

Course Fee: £150.00

Explaining to friends and family about the fantastic dives you’ve experienced is much more fun when you show them pictures of Sharks, Dolphins, Wrecks or Reefs.
This course is an ideal option to do on a holiday dive trip to the Red Sea, but don’t forget the amazing shots you can get in the UK too!

Requiring TWO DIVES, this Specialty course covers the principles of basic underwater photography, discussing film types, flash/available light, composition, and how to overcome problems to achieve better results.

Equipment care, preparation and maintenance are an essential part of the program together with camera handling techniques. You’ll take shots of aquatic life as well as your buddy, and then review your photo’s with your instructor to highlight your successes and areas which need correction.

Using both an automatic digital underwater camera with zoom as well as the more conventional 35mm film cameras, you’ll also have the opportunity to use a variety of macro & wide angle lenses.

Photography Specialty certification is a requirement by most Dive Centers for underwater camera rental.

NEW PADI DIGITAL COURSE NOW AVAILABLE!!!!!!

Course Fee: £150.00

Using video technology has made it easy to become an underwater cameraman and shoot your own undersea movies.

Two dives build on the basic principles of underwater photography, looking at composition & camera handling as well as techniques for image centering and tracking. This really is an excellent one for Red Sea Wildlife!

Now video cameras and dedicated underwater housings have become considerably less expensive this course has become ever more popular. Capture the real or should that be reel feel! of action underwater.

Often video appears to give better results in poor conditions than still photography, and with cameras becoming palm size the possibilities are endless.

NEW PADI DIGITAL COURSE NOW AVAILABLE!!!!!!

Boat Course Fee: £205.00 Fully Inclusive of boat fees

TWO DIVES to familiarise you with the art of boat diving, dive boat layout and coordination of boat dive operations.

If you've never dived from a boat - this is a great way to gain experience under supervision of an instructor.

This is an ideal program to consider whilst on a trip to the Red Sea. Alternatively on our regular trips to the English Coast where you have the option to spread the course over two days diving and get experience on both hard boats and smaller faster Zodiac RIBs (Rigid Inflatable Boat).

This is a great way to Explore UK Dive Sites

Deep Course Fee: £205.00 Fully Inclusive

This exciting course has FOUR DEEP dives, to a maximum depth of 40 metres, providing experience under close professional supervision to expand your awareness of the techniques and potential hazards of deep recreational diving. You’ll become familiar with special equipment used when deep diving, and practice the skills required to make emergency decompression stops. We include the deployment of Delayed Surface Marker Buoys, so important in UK diving, and as an intro into the world of the Tec Deep Diver.

The emphasis is on planning and conducting safe dives, whilst enjoying the adventure of going deeper than most other recreational divers.

This course may be conducted over just two day trips to Stoney Cove, however to gain the full exposure to the deep diving experience, we strongly recommend spreading it out over three.

Course Fee: £185.00 Fully Inclusive

If you want to have the ultimate experience in FUN diving, and play at being in a James Bond film for the day - then Diver Vehicle Propulsion Diving is for you!

This is a one day, TWO DIVE course which we guarantee will have you grinning from ear to ear. This course comes with a warning though! You are certain to have a "DPV" on your wish list after you qualify!

You'll learn how to prepare the machine for use, entry & exit techniques, surface and underwater riding (flying is a better description) as well as the safety precautions and ways to avoid hazards of use. This is definitely a too furious experience, and it is perfect for you to out pilot your buddy and show off your flying skills!!

Course Fee: £125.00 Fully Inclusive

So you’re looking for a nice easy relaxed cruise over a coral reef in the Red Sea – or maybe you want to feel like you’re flying along a wall above a 600m abyss, drift diving is exactly that, sit comfortably in the water and let the ocean take you for a ride.

Drift diving is absolutely amazing fun – and very easy.

This course introduces you to diving in currents, covering entry & exit techniques as well as use of Surface Marker Buoys and reels.

This is fantastic experience for diving both in the UK and in foreign seas, and will allow you to sign up to visit dive sites that before might have been beyond your reach.

Dry Suit Course Fee: £125.00 Fully Inclusive

We have a saying in diving 'any fool can be cold'. Being cold whilst diving isn’t fun for anybody – but diving in cold water in a Drysuit enables you to stay warm and enjoy the fun of diving all year round.

A required pool orientation dive gets you used to the equipment care and use, as well as acquainting you with the difference in buoyancy skills before you venture out into open water.

TWO open water Drysuit dives then give you the opportunity to put it all to the test and enjoy diving in colder and very often clearer waters.

Enriched Air Nitrox Course Fee: £99.00 Fully Inclusive

Diving, when it comes down to it from beginner to instructor underwater it’s all about time!!! Diving with more Oxygen and Less Nitrogen = More Fun !

Extend your available dive time No-Decompression Limits for longer dives…
18m on air = max 56mins
on 32% EANx = 95mins on 36% =125mins!!!!

This course covers all the theory and planning necessary to conduct longer dives using Enriched Air Nitrox – including all the safety precautions, gas handling and analysis procedures for recreational Nitrox diving. Knowledge development for this program is through home study manual & videos and instructor presentations including an exam to assess understanding.

The classroom session is scheduled at your convenience any time prior to diving. The dives are best conducted at Stoney Cove to gain the time benefits of using Enriched Air Nitrox at depth.

Course Fee: £99.00 Fully Inclusive

So you use the equipment, you pay for it to be serviced and repaired, but do you understand it?

This classroom based course taught by an authorised equipment servicing technician won’t qualify you to service your own regs but it will show you what’s inside them, how they work and how to prevent those irksome kit issue that always happen on day 1 of your holiday or dive 1, 20 miles out into the channel!

How to correctly clean, store and protect your kit is explained as is the what not to do’s! Also some key explanations as to why the octopus is leaking slightly just after it was serviced! A must for the keen diver, or any soon to be professional.

Course Fee: £109.00 Fully Inclusive

This Specialty is part of PADI’s Project AWARE (Aquatic World Awareness Responsibility & Education) program.

The knowledge you gain will enable you to learn about the key identifying features and habits of the major fish groups.

If you’re amazed at the thousands of fish – you’ll be pleased to be able to separate them into easily identifiable families, and the more you learn the easier it gets – very soon you’ll be an underwater twitcher!

Multilevel Course Fee: £125.00 Fully Inclusive

A TWO DIVE course covering the techniques for extending diving bottom time by following a multi-level profile planned on the Wheel version of the RDP, the safe use of dive computers are discussed and practised.

The first dive is on two levels – progressing from deep to shallow, the second dive is on three – giving a stepped ascent profile.

Multi-level dive profiles are most practical for recreational diving, and the opportunity to use dive computers under instructor’s guidance is clearly beneficial. The main focus of the course will emphasise the serious importance of the use of a modern dive computer for added safety and longer diving. This course is a must.

Night Course Fee: £135.00 Fully Inclusive

This course requires that you complete THREE DIVES over at least two nights.

You’ll learn the techniques for using lights on the surface and underwater, as well as night navigation practice and lights out drills.

A great one to do as part of a trip to the Red Sea because diving at night gives you the opportunity to identify nocturnal aquatic wildlife that hunt in the dark such as Morays & Lion Fish, Lobsters, Cuttlefish and Octopus.

UK Night diving is a good opportunity for wildlife encounters and also a great way to see familiar dive sites from a whole new perspective.

Banish your nocturnal fears and come see for yourself. Who’s afraid of the dark ? – Not you!

PPB Course Fee: £109.00 Fully Inclusive

The Peak Performance Buoyancy course has only TWO DIVES but what a two dives they are! This course usually has more impact on students diving skills than any other PADI Specialty course.

The course starts by focusing on your correct weighting, trim, streamlining, and then finning techniques all to fine tune buoyancy. Yes we will get rid of that crawl kick you were taught on your open water course! The result is more relaxed diving, you use less energy, your air supply lasts longer and you get more enjoyable and longer dives.

Whilst this course is of obvious benefit to newly qualified divers and people who haven’t dived for some time: these skills are also imperative for anyone considering Photo, Videography Cavern, Drift, Multilevel or Search & Recovery specialties.

Project Aware Course Fee: £89.00 Fully Inclusive

This course covers information about aquatic ecosystem degradation along with conservation measures to protect aquatic resources. A Project AWARE Specialty, includes the following:

• The Project AWARE philosophy about protecting worldwide aquatic ecosystems.

• The importance of and interdependent nature of worldwide aquatic ecosystems.

• Pertinent issues concerning the environmental status of worldwide aquatic ecosystems, including: fisheries concerns, coastal zone management and marine pollution.

• The status of specific, critically degraded marine environments.

• Suggestions and information about specific actions that may help to conserve worldwide aquatic ecosystems.

Re-Breather Course Fee: £255.00 Fully Inclusive

So we all love Dolphins, we want to get closer to fish, secretly we all need to see sharks! What happens is, they hear us a mile off and skedaddle before we get even close!

Using technical re-breather equipment the Draeger Ray or Dolphin lets you have longer and quieter dives to get closer to more elusive wildlife.

This course covers the necessary theory, equipment preparation care & maintenance of a semi-closed circuit re-breather unit.

Pool training introduces the different buoyancy skills necessary to dive in control and prepares you to complete the two open water training dives in safety. The dives include equipment preparation, testing use and disassembly.

Please contact us if you are interested in this training as a number of pre requisites apply.

Search & Recovery Course Fee: £205.00 Fully Inclusive

This course contains invaluable practical skills, you will certainly use beyond the training course – both for yourself and your dive buddies...

Over the FOUR DIVES you’ll gain experience of circular rope searches, expanding square and U-shape search patterns for medium to large sized items like torches & knives etc, as well as how to coordinate and set up a jack-stay search for very small objects such as jewellery.

Techniques for rigging and lifting different sized objects are also practised. Hazards and problems with search and recovery dives are discussed.

Search techniques learned here are applied on the PADI Rescue Diver course when searching for missing divers – quite serious stuff… but great fun in training.

Course Fee: £Call

TEKKIE divers always look amazing, loads of cylinders, masses of equipment, but in reality they are diving with the minimum of kit their plan will allow.

This is where the SERIOUS FUN really begins always treating the dives with respect….planning everything up front then going deeper and/or longer !

This extensive and challenging training program involves commitment and investment in time and equipment, learning to complete Gas Switch Extended range dives using technical dive equipment & techniques to go beyond the limits of normal recreational divers.

You’ll need to have already qualified as a PADI Nitrox and Deep Specialist, and have at least 50 logged dives with specific experience in Nitrox & Deep Dives beyond 30m. This is Tec Level 1.

The progression beyond Tec level 1 involves going deeper (that 50m point is calling…) and using Accelerated Decompression with up to 100% Oxygen on mandatory staged deco stops in addition to the gas switch extended range dives you mastered previously. Understanding the hazards and managing the risk of technical deep diving is a challenge for a small niche of divers who take the sport seriously and are prepared for the investment in time, effort and money necessary to safely go beyond the limits of normal recreational divers. This is serious stuff with associated risks, not for badge collectors - this is the 1 in a 100 club!

Wreck Course Fee: £205.00 Fully Inclusive

The excitement of diving on a submerged shipwreck is a huge temptation for divers in British waters where the coastline is littered with new and old, large and small wrecks from as little as 5m up to 40m and beyond. The excitement of exploring an historic wreck by torchlight cannot be missed!

The course covers the avoidance of hazards, detailed wreck mapping, use of reels & lines for overhead environments and safe wreck penetration.

The dives can be made at Stoney Cove or can also be planned for the DunRaven & Thistlegorm the most famous of Red Sea wrecks.

At Stoney Cove we use the Staingarth, the helicopter and the Nautilus in the training of this course which takes place over two days.

Course Fee: £95.00 ex gas

So you breath Nitrox, you might be a Tec Diver but do you really understand exactly what goes into that bottle that keeps you alive, and how they make it?

This course explains exactly what to do to blend your own Nitrox or Heliox mixed gas.

You will blend samples of gas which must be within 1% of the required blend. You will be shown just what O2 clean means and how to do it yourself.