The sun has been shining on us recently and the diving conditions have been great, light winds and rain throughout September and the water temperature 19 Degrees in the water. The diver training has also been flowing, this weekend we are in Hebron Hall on the outskirts of Cardiff training the PADI Open Water Diver Course and the PADI Rescue Open Water Diver Course. Students are with us from across South Wales including Cardiff, Newport, Bridgend and Swansea for the training session which starts at 8.45am on Saturday 04th October.

The students have also returned to University so they will be with us again to develope their skills for the diving careers and hopefully protect the wonderful sea's and oceans of the world.

DIVING CONDITIONS REPORT

The conditions of late have been good, the light winds and steady tides have made for a settling of the sea's and clearing visability and also temperatures of up to 19 Degree's. This week is all change though the October winds are definately with us and we are predicting big swells and wind for both Saturday and Sunday, so our advice is to stay away from the coast along the South Wales area, this will also affect visability in the short term, we will keep you up to date.

September is coming to an end and the winter season is dawning, however our student base is still blossoming as we receive more and more individuals wishing to enroll on the PADI Open Water course. All skills are taught in a pool environment located in Cardiff so the winter chill isn't felt and for the open water assessment the equipment we provide keeps out clients nice and warm. The course, which is taught in the Cardiff, Newport, Swansea and South Wales area, opens up a whole new realm of possibilities ranging from new career prospects, as it it an internationally rewound qualification, to a new leisure activity for you to experience all around the world.

The Open water course which hones your fundamental diving skills such as mask skills, navigation and equipment skills, is proceeded by two more courses, the PADI Advanced Diver course and the PADI Rescue Diver course, which allow individuals to further develop they're skills and reach new, exiting depths safely. Less than 5% of the deep blue depths of this planet have been explored. Many believe space to be the final frontier, however, more of the moon and mars has been mapped than our own ocean, which constitutes more than 70% of the planets surface. Diving allows you to explore new depths, which may have never been explored by anyone else. With the help of these courses you could have an experience which no one else has ever had, seeing marine life in its element, not just on some TV screen on a show narrated by David Attenborough.

The next pool session is on the 4th October in Hebron Hall close to Cardiff, students are travelling from all over South Wales including Swansea, Newport, Bridgend and Porthcawl and the next Open Water Diver Session will be held on the 18th and 19th October. We will keep you up dated on all up coming events.

Not long until we will be in the Grenadine islands diving in the warm water next to all sorts of marine life (including Sharks!!!). We have many diving courses during these upcoming weekends, training people in the Cardiff, Swansea and Newport areas, preparing them to be able to participate in these amazing life changing experiences. After years and years of diving it never gets old, its always new and exiting. The PADI Open Water qualification is recognised around the world and holds high prestige. The world is your oyster being a diver, the deep blue is accessible with these skills and who knows what you will see. Its a relatively easy skill to acquire also with one pool session, a theory test and four open water dives being part of the course and you will have that qualification for life and can use it anywhere in the world, just from a few sessions in the South Wales area.

We have marine biology students from the university in Cardiff and Swansea lining up for the course now, knowing that it will give them the advantage in their competitive field. The will gain valuable experience making them more employable.

We have already had years of satisfied customers and all of our instructors are still ready and raring to teach their knowledge base to keen individuals and will then employ their skills for their own benefit in a few months in the Caribbean.

Following the preliminary training in Hebron Hall, Cardiff, for the PADI Open Water Course, the students are getting ready to complete their qualification after they're four open water dives in South Wales on the weekend of the 20th and 21st. These dives include an open water assessment of the skills they learned in a pool environment, such as mask and equipment skills, along with a navigation section and buoyancy control. As instructors we have been training in order to make sure we ourselves are fully prepared for their safety. This week we have been to Newton in Porthcawl where we updated our first aid and lifesaving skills which involved advanced oxygen tank usage. Will all this training done we are sure that the upcoming schools and activities will run smoothly. The Cardiff and Swansea schools are also displaying a keen interest and have been enquiring into the PADI Open Water qualification. Hopefully this means that we will soon have many more prospective students wishing to learn this qualification from us. Its a good season for scuba diving.

September is upon us and with it brings more new prospective divers to us. The team has been hard at work in Hebron Hall, Cardiff, today teaching a new group the PADI Open Water Diving Course. With the pool session compleated which outlined the fundimental skills of diving e.g. mask skills, dive kit, reg skills, boyancy, and compleating they're theory test which gives the comprehensive information on diving, they will all be certified open water divers after theyre open water excursion on the 20th and 21st.

At the end of this month we will be training a few skilled and interested individuals in the PADI Rescue Diver course in Cardiff, Swansea and across South Wales. Which will set them on the path of becoming a Dive Master once they have gained the nessesary experiance.

Thanks to our skilled team everything is moving like clockwork with no injuries and everyone passing.

We have just returned from a fantastic weekend of diving with two groups completing the PADI Open Water Diver Course and The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course.

The PADI Open Water Diver Course was instructed by Ray and Stewart and was completed by Sara, Simone from Cardiff and Gavin and Nia from Swansea, the course was completed on the Saturday and Sunday, all the group had completed their paperwork and confined water training and were ready for the 4 Open Water Scuba Dives, the students from across South Wales completed skills such as mask clearing, equipment assembly and buoyancy to be able to be come a competent diver up to 18 meters.

The Advanced Open Water Weekend was conducted by Daniel Lewis and Lee Garbett both PADI Open Water Instructors and the students were Phil from Swansea, Luke from St Athans, Sam from Swansea and Jarrod From Cardiff. The lads had to complete 5 Open Water Scuba Dives to certify for the course including Navigation, Deep, Peak Performance buoyancy, Naturalist and wreck dives. All four lads completed the course with flying colours and are now able to dive anywhere in the world up to 30 meters.

So well done to everyone and we will be running our next PADI Open Water Referral Diver course on the 6th September in Hebron hall in Cardiff.

Were making good of the conditions while the water is still warm and on the weekend of the 30th/31st August we have a huge weekend in store for a novice and trained divers.

We are firstly completing the PADI Open Water Diver Course with Simone, Gavin, Nia and Sara from Cardiff. Paul from Swansea and Neil  from Newport, the have all completed the PADI Open Water Diver Referral Course in Hebron Hall in Cardiff and are now ready for the Open Water Qualifying Dives. There instructors will be Dan and Ray for the weekend.

We also have the PADI Advanced Open Water diver course on the same weekend with Sam from Swansea, Phil from Llanelli, Luke from Cardiff and Jarrod from Cardiff, they have completed the PADI Open Water Diver Course and are now progressing to the next Scuba Diving level. There instructors are Lee and Stewart for the weekend and the 5 Scuba Dives.

The PADI open Water Scuba Diving Course allows you to dive any where in the world up to 18 meters in depth with a dive Buddy as does the BSAC Ocean Diver and other diving qualifications. Here in South Wales prodominently Cardiff, Swansea, Porthcawl, Newport and Bridgend people learn to dive under the different systems to gain qualifications that allow them to explore the underwater world across the globe as well as here in South Wales and the UK.

As part of this training you arwe shown how to use the Scuba Equipment most of which is quite familiar such as wetsuit, Mask, snorkel, Fins, weight belt, boots, hoods, gloves, the three essentials however are The Regulator, The Buoyancy Control Device and the Cylinder, these are the main items of the Scuba Unit.

The Scuba Unit itself is very basic but essential for the purpose to breath under water, developed 60 years ago so we might explore underwater and salvage items left behind in the sea and the oceans.

In modern times the equipment has not changed a great deal but is safer and more effective than its initial start, our next item will explain the fundamentals of the Regulator an essential part of your diving kit.

Its the time of year when we really get our fins on, the Scuba diving is in full season in South Wales and places close to Cardiff such as Swansea and Pembrokeshire have fantastic diving conditions at the moment .

Qualified PADI Open Water Divers and BSAC Ocean Divers have been using there qualifications to get in the water and get Scuba Diving across the shore lines of South Wales.

We are presently running trips to Stackpole Quay, Pembrokshire, Lime Slade Bay and Oxwich bay showing people the best the Welsh Coastline has to offer for Scuba Divers.