PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Success

Sub-Mission conducted a PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty on Sunday as a follow on from our brilliant pool clinics. Astin, James, Chris, Paul, Dawn and Ian found the dives incredibly beneficial as they practiced a variety of techniques to improve their buoyancy. From hovering close to the bottom to using breath control to swim around obstacles.

Sub-Mission staff also spent time ensuring that each student was weighted correctly and that the weights were positioned to give good trim in the water. Following on from the pool clinics some of the students had also been practicing their breathing rhythms and improved their air consumption during the dives. By the end of the two dives, they were also able to easily hold a safety stop mid water. Even Rob from the PADI Advanced Open Water Course joined us for the second dive to complete his Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty too!

Keep an eye on the blog for our next buoyancy pool clinics if you want to get involved!

Too see more photo's of the weekend, please follow the link to flickr

Great weekend, great visibility, great students.

Sub-Mission had another spectacular weekend at Capernwray with some great students and fairly fantastic weather.

A group of recent PADI Open Water Students had requested a tailor made course so that they could all get together and complete their PADI Advanced Open Water on the same weekend. They had had such a great time on their course that they wanted to meet up again for the next step on their diving adventures. Rob, Lauren, Paul and Rob had some excellent dives over the weekend in order to complete their course. The visibility on Saturday was probably the best that the instructors had seen it.

Completing the Wreck, Deep, Navigation, Peak Performance Buoyancy and Multilevel dives, each of the students enjoyed the thrill of really diving, seeing the new plane and experiencing deeper dives. They all passed easily and were a pleasure to teach over the weekend. Well done and thanks for some fantastic diving!

To view all of the photo's from the weekend, please follow the link to flickr

Peak Performance Buoyancy Clinic success

Sub-Mission have been busy running Buoyancy clinic’s in the pool over the past few weeks and we would like to congratulate everyone who has attended one of the pool sessions. We consider these sessions to have been a massive success and are looking at scheduling some more clinics for the future.

What we have realised is that every divers buoyancy issues are different and so we’ve been working on an individual basis to improve our students skills and help them fine tune their positioning in the water. For some, heavy air consumption seems to be a problem and we’ve been working on breathing techniques, for others it’s control of positioning so we’ve been hovering in numerous positions to perfect that control amongst a lot of other skills.

We would like to thank everyone who has attending and we hope that they will be joining us for the PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty that we are running at Capernwray on June 13th or June 27th.

Photographer Brian Skerry talks about the plight of the ocean

Please check out this video clip of Photographer Brian Skerry talking about his work to help protect our Oceans. His photo's are astounding so worth a look and a listen.

World Ocean Day - give Sharks a fighting chance

I thought this was important to share with you all today as it's World Ocean day. This is an email that I just had from PADI;

"This World Ocean Day, 8th June, you can spend two minutes and join AWARE Divers worldwide demanding that sharks be given a fighting chance.

Governments ignored scientific evidence and advice in favor of short-term economic interests at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), March 2010. They failed to give eight threatened shark species the trade protections they deserve.


Each year, tens of millions of sharks are killed by Earth’s most dangerous predators – humans. Too many of them fall victim to the cruel and wasteful practice of shark finning – the act of removing shark fins and discarding the often still alive shark overboard.

Despite set-backs, thanks to advocates like you, sharks have received recent, historical national protections in Europe, Maldives and Palau. Together, we will make a difference for these critical species.

Sign the petition, express your outrage at the recent CITES failures. Your signature, together with thousands of divers and advocates worldwide, will demand government parties to CITES heed science and protect fragile ocean ecosystems."

So please follow this link and add your name to the petition, pass it on to your friends and family too!  

Katy

The Ocean Project

The Ocean Project

Another Happy Group of PADI Open Water Divers!

We’d like to say huge congratulations to the latest PADI Open Water divers to certify with Sub-Mission Dive Centre. This weekend at Capernwray Mark, Becky, Jeff, Mark, Paul and Nigel were all amazed by the wonders of the underwater world. The three dives on Saturday were completed successfully with only minor buoyancy issues. Due to the lack of other divers at Capernwray the visibility was good and the students loved riding Shergar and watching the fish.

Unfortunately Mark and Becky were unable to complete the dives on Sunday but we’ve rescheduled their dates and look forward to them completing the PADI Open Water Diver Course very soon.

So Mark, Paul, Nigel and Jeff carried on regardless on Sunday and had two brilliant dives. Although nerves began to creep in about the mask removal and replacement they didn’t let it phase them and all gained the PADI Open Water Diver certification. Each of them also completed a further dive to gain the PADI Drysuit Specialty. This was the perfect dive to end the weekend as they not only had a great time exploring the new plane but the group also saw the Sturgeon.

Well done everyone!