Specialties

PADI's most popular specialty is the PADI Enriched Air Diver course. Diving with enriched air nitrox lets you safely extend your no stop time beyond the no decompression limits for air. Diving with enriched air means more time underwater, but you need to be certified as an Enriched Air Diver to get enriched air fills or certified as a DSAT Gas Blender.

With both Nitrox / Enriched Air being so popular and the number of technical divers is on the rise, which means that lots of scuba divers want enriched air and gas blends. The Tec Gas Blender course teaches you to blend enriched air nitrox and helium-blend gases using one or more blending methods. Being the blender is a key job at a busy PADI Dive Center or Resort and your work allows other divers to do what they love to do - scuba dive.

The course covers

• The Tec Gas Blender course includes three practical application sessions, but no dives. During independent study and instructor-led review, you learn:
• About the advantages and disadvantages of different blending methodologies.
• To blend enriched air and trimix blends to within one percent of the target mix.About the potential hazards related to handling oxygen, and how to manage those risks.
• To demonstrate the steps for oxygen cleaning equipment, along with the requirements for oxygen service.
• Please click, printout and complete the DSAT Gas Blenders Form.

Locations & Timings

• Both, Gatwick Scuba Training Facility for Theory and the Ardingly Shop for practical exercises.
• The course can either be run over one full day or two evenings as we need to use both the classroom and shop facilities.

Included

• DSAT Gas Blender Manual
• Training using blending panels, Gas booster pumps and Analyser's.
• Certification on successful completion of the course

Having scuba tanks on your back isn’t a requirement for exploring the underwater world. Many scuba divers have discovered the joy of mounting cylinders on their sides. Sidemount diving gives you flexibility and streamlining options. Plus, you don’t have to walk with heavy cylinders on your back – just enter the water, clip them on and go. Sound interesting? Sign up for the PADI Sidemount Diver Specialty course.

Gatwick Scuba supplies Hollis SMS100 and Apeks XTX Sidemount regulators for use on your course.

Locations

• Wraysbury
• Vobster Quay 

Included

• Training (confined water session Orientation at our pool and 4 open water dives)
• Equipment (including dry suit if drysuit qualified) If not customer will need to provide their own wetsuit.
• PADI sidemount manual which will be posted out upon receipt of your booking and should have section one completed before your confined session. PADI
• Certification (on successful completion of the course)

Prerequisites

• Certified Open Water Diver or equivalent
• Minimum age 15 years old
• Before Booking Your Course. Please click on the highlighted forms in blue and printout them out and complete them, Continuing Education Administration Document & PADI Medical form. Please read the medical carefully and follow all the instructions, if a GP's signature is required on page 3 please get this signed before booking the course. If you have issues with your GP signing then please contact the shop for assistance. Failure to do this may result in you being sent away until the form is completed.
• Be up to date with dive skills by either completed a Refresher or have logged dives within the last 6 months in your logbook.

Additional Costs

• Admission fees to dive site £15 Wraysbury £23 Vobster
• Air £20.00

The PADI Full-face Mask Specialty provides the diver with the basic safety,technical and practical knowledge necessary to be a competent full face mask diver and feel comfortable using their system. You will participate in an orientation at our pool in Lingfield, Surrey to learn the features of the full-face masks, gain familiarity with the system in the pool. Once you have mastered the skills in the pool its finished off by demonstrating skills in 2 open water dives.

Gatwick Scuba supplies Apeks / OTS Guardian Fullface masks & regulators for use on your course.

Locations

• Wraysbury
• Vobster Quay Due to Covid 19 at the moment Vobster are limiting the time spent at the lake for divers with 2 time slots 8am-2pm or 2pm-8pm which can change at a moments notice and is out of our control so please bare this in mind when booking.

Included

• Training (confined water session Orientation and 2 open water dives)
• Equipment (including dry suit if drysuit qualified)
• PADI Certification (on successful completion of the course)

Prerequisites

• Certified Open Water Diver or equivalent
• Minimum age 15 years old
• Before Booking Your Course. Please click on the highlighted forms in blue and printout them out and complete them, Continuing Education Administration Document & PADI Medical form. Please read the medical carefully and follow all the instructions, if a GP's signature is required on page 3 please get this signed before booking the course. If you have issues with your GP signing then please contact the shop for assistance. Failure to do this may result in you being sent away until the form is completed.
• Be up to date with dive skills by either completed a Refresher or have logged dives within the last 6 months in your logbook.

Additional Costs

• Admission fees to dive site £10 Wraysbury £16 Vobster
• Air £10.00

The Deep Speciality course will introduce and familiarise divers with the skills, knowledge, planning, organisation, procedures, techniques, problems, hazards and enjoyment of diving between the depths of 18 to 40 metres. The Deep Diver speciality course is intended to serve as a safe, supervised introduction to deeper diving within the limits of recreational scuba diving.

Water may cover seven tenths of the Earth’s surface, but if it weren't for exposure suits, diving would be limited to a relatively narrow band straddling the equator. That would indeed be unfortunate as some of the best diving lies well north and south of the tropical waters and also in lakes, at altitude and at deeper depths that constantly remain cool. Without protection from the cold, some of the best diving would be inaccessible.

Welcome to one of PADI's most popular specialties, the PADI Enriched Air Diver course. Diving with enriched air nitrox lets you safely extend your no stop time beyond the no decompression limits for air. Diving with enriched air means more time underwater, but you need to be certified as an Enriched Air Diver to get enriched air fills.

Be the one ready to help a fellow diver should the need arise by becoming a PADI Emergency Oxygen Provider.

Breathe easy—knowing that you know how to recognize illnesses treatable by emergency oxygen. Being the best buddy you can be means being prepared – especially in a time of need.

Whether it's a blown o-ring, regulator problem, wetsuit tear or a broken fin strap, you can learn how to manage basic scuba equipment adjustments.

As a PADI Equipment Specialist, you are prepared for the basic scuba equipment maintenance, care and adjustments you'll encounter every day. In addition, you'll learn interesting background information about how your gear works, how it’s repair and other information that helps you with your equipment investment.

 Perfect Your Buoyancy

Float effortlessly, drifting over reefs. Be the diver you want to be, with ultimate buoyancy control, able to hover close to the bottom and examine underwater organisms without touching them.

Buoyancy skills separate the good divers from the great divers. In the Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty course, you will learn to how to precisely weight yourself for optimum control, poise and balance. You learn to ascend and descend so effortlessly, it seems like you only think about it and it happens.

The PADI Search and Recovery Course...

Have you ever dropped something in the water? Are you looking for lost "treasure"? The PADI Search and Recovery specialty course will teach you effective ways to find objects underwater and bring them to the surface. Small, large, or just awkward, there is a way to bring them up.