November’s Gone Diving Day - Syd's Gone Treasure Hunting

Syd’s Gone Treasure Hunting

Syd has the task of organising November’s Gone Diving Day and before the winter sets in he is keen on getting everyone into the water for some treasure hunting fun.

Syd is organising an underwater treasure hunt at Eccleston Delph on Sunday 21st November. It’s not quite Davy Jones’s locker but it’s a brilliant venue for a treasure hunt. Anyone is welcome to enter and take a chance at winning. The idea will be that buddy teams will enter the water and try to collect as much ‘treasure’ as possible over 2 dives. Each buddy team will write their name on the treasure so that it can go into a prize draw. Then for each of the prizes on offer, we will randomly pull out some treasure to reveal the winners.

Entry fee for the competition is £10 each person and will need to be paid in the shop prior to the 21st November. The more people to enter the bigger the prizes!!

Prizes will be Vouchers to spend in the shop on Dive Equipment as well as PADI Dive Courses.

There will also be a mystery prize for a piece of treasure collected.

So, if you’re looking for one last dive before the winter, a day out diving and a really good laugh then come along and get treasure hunting…

Contact Katy at the Dive Centre or email to Katy@divecourses.co.uk

Congratulations to new PADI Divemasters

Sub-Mission would like to congratulate Simon and Barry on their success in obtaining the PADI Divemaster Certification. They have certainly worked hard over the last few months to achieve this prestigious status.

Barry and Simon have completed each element of the PADI Divemaster Course to earn them the first of their professional PADI certifications.

The PADI Divemaster course is one of the most challenging courses that PADI have created and so it is certainly no small achievement. Completing the PADI Divemaster course involves theory exams, practical assessments including rescue skills and demonstration quality skills and assisting with students during their training.

Both of them found different aspects of the course challenging and rewarding but overall they excelled in the Divemaster Program. We are incredibly proud of their hard work and commitment and wish them the very best in their professional career. Next Step Assistant Instructor!

Shark Awareness Evening Success

I would like to thank everyone who came along to the Shark Awareness evening last Monday. I was amazed that we had such a good turnout for something that I had advertised as quite grim watching and slightly depressing. It certainly showed me that our divers are concerned about the environment and passionate about making a difference.


The documentary that we watched showed the grim reality of the shark finning trade and the impact that it will have if it continues in the future.

The discussion afterwards regarding what we can do to get involved was encouraging as some really achievable ideas were presented. Watch this space for future projects…

The evening was concluded with a brilliant presentation by Lucy from the Sea Life Centre at Alton Towers. She was tasked with lightening the mood and did so by showing some of the successful projects that Sea Life Centres are involved in, such as Turtle rescue, sea horse breeding and legislative changes.

It was a really encouraging night and I personally would like to thank everyone for giving up their time as well as the donations that were raised for Project AWARE.

Many Thanks, Katy

Kelly Completes Master Scuba Diver!

Now that her name has finally arrived and has been mounted on the MASTER SCUBA DIVER ROLL of HONOUR Board in the Dive Centre, we would like to congratulate Kelly on her achievement of the prestigious PADI Master Scuba Diver award. This demonstrates her knowledge of Specialist areas of diving such as Enriched Air, Deep diving and Wreck diving as well as dive experience by proving that she has completed more than 50 dives.

The PADI Master Scuba Diver rating also shows that Kelly has completed her PADI Rescue Diver Course and is competent in diver safety and rescue procedures.

This certification is the highest PADI rating for those who have not embarked on the PADI Divemaster and Instructor route and so shows Kelly’s diving ability and experience. We would like to congratulate her on her hard work and success! Well Done Kelly!

Congratulations Sub-Mission Students

PADI Open Water Divers

Congratulations to Ben and Emily who certified as PADI Open Water Divers last weekend. The two teenagers had flown through the pool skills and were really keen to get into the open water and experience diving in a more realistic environment.

They completed their dives at Eccleston Delph, where the visibility was much better than expected. Ben and Emily got to explore underwater, finding many of the interesting features such as the tank, the containers and the playground where they were both keen to get on the see saw!

The two of them were brilliant at the skills and certainly made it very easy students to teach. The buoyancy skills demonstrated by both of them was certainly amongst the best that we have seen this year.

Well done for your hard work and we’re glad to say that you are both now PADI Open Water Divers!

PADI Enriched Air Specialty Divers

Sub-Mission would like to congratulate the PADI Enriched Air Specialty students for their success last week. In preparation for holidays and longer UK dives; Simon, Paul and Paul completed the course to make the most out of their dive time.

Each of the students learnt the theory behind enriched air, the benefits and the disadvantages as well as the procedures to obtain and analyse fills. They also learnt how to plan enriched air dives and calculate maximum depth limits.

The use of enriched air will benefit each of them by increasing the time that they will be able to spend underwater enjoying the coral reefs, wrecks and amazing marine life.

At the request of Simon, they also completed the course using Enriched Air Computers instead of the PADI Enriched Air Tables, giving them less time planning dives and more time in the water.



PADI Wreck Specialty Divers

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.

Paul, James, Ant, Giles, Barry, Paul and Tim were great PADI Wreck Specialty 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 Students

Well done to those students who were busy over the weekend completing the PADI Advanced Open Water Course and Adventure Diver.

Sharon, Kate, Sophie, Lee, Nick and Geoff all completed the core Deep and Navigation Dives and then chose to also try their hand at photography, peak performance buoyancy, drysuit, search & recovery 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.

Syd also managed to tie the students up in knots with underwater searching as well as rigging a lift bag and bringing it to the surface.

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