It's not all bad news this weekend... Congratulations Sub-Mission students.

It may have been a disappointing weekend due to the football results but Sub-Mission students were certainly celebrating their successes for the dives that they completed over the weekend. PADI Open Water, Advanced, Wreck and SMB courses were all completed over what turned out to be a glorious weekend.

PADI Open Water Diver Course

Matt, Wes, Ant, John, Jack and Tom were excited on Saturday morning as well as feeling some nervous anticipation. They were blessed with the sunshine after each dive. After the first dive all the nerves had vanished to be replaced by excited chat about the fish and the dive underwater.

They were all brilliant students over the weekend and completed their skills with ease. With all four dives completed they achieved the PADI Open Water Diver Accreditation. A special mention must be made to Tom who did a superb job of keeping up with the adults, even though the scuba kit was bigger than him.

Well done everyone. We look forward to you signing up for the Advanced soon….


PADI Wreck Specialty

The new plane at Capernwray is a great feature to learn wreck techniques on and Sub-Mission students had a blast on Saturday getting to grips with mapping, line laying and exploring every nook and cranny of it.

Jenny, Terry, Julie, Colin, Matt, Dave, Gary and Gavin were great students who enthusiastically threw themselves in to each task presented to them. They showed efficient and cohesive team work, especially during the actual penetration of the wreck. There were some moments of entanglement as they began to learn the techniques of reeling along the outside but soon mastered it.

The staff had a great day with the PADI Wreck Specialty students so thanks very much and congratulations.

PADI Advanced Open Water

Some of the students who completed the Advanced Open Water Course had booked the course several months ago and this weekend certainly showed us that the sunshine was worth waiting for. Matt, Craig, Sonia, Kieran, James, Ian, Mike and Dawn completed the required Adventure Dives over the weekend in order to achieve the Advanced Open Water qualification. They all completed the core Deep and Navigation Dives and then chose to also try their hand at photography, peak performance buoyancy, drysuit and wreck diving.

There were some cracking photo’s taken over the photography dives with some hopefully making their way onto the flickr account some time soon. Some even abandoned the drysuit in favour of a Semi Drysuit and loved the freedom and manoeuvrability whilst the water was warm enough.

Again, a great set of students who kept the staff laughing throughout the weekend! Well done.


PADI SMB Specialty

After a theory session and pool session learning the features of Surface Marker Buoys and reels as well as the techniques used to deploy them from underwater, Jenny, Stefan and Jon completed their Open Water dives on Sunday.

They had to complete two dives where they deployed their SMB’s numerous times as practice from a static position on the bottom and then whilst hovering mid water. They managed to avoid getting tangled and easily demonstrated the use of a variety of different methods to deploy their SMB’s. They each got to take turns with a variety of different reels from spools to ratchet reels. Jenny even braved the water without a hood. A brilliant performance by each of them and hopefully they will put their new skills to good use on their next holiday or UK coastal trip.