Welcome everyone to South Yorkshire Diving Academy.
South Yorkshire Diving Academy promotes and welcomes
new members to its Dive Club.
Lets go diving....
Club Meetings
Our club meetings are held every month. It was nice to see
so many of our friends at our last meeting together with a few new faces who we
hope will now become regular visitors to our meetings. To see a list of
proposed events please click HERE. Updates
posted in the Dive Centre.
Well Done Carl
Another new IDC Staff Instructor - well done Carl.
We wish a sincere congratulation to a newly certified Divemaster,
all who know him appreciate his achievement and wish him all the success
in his new forthcoming ventures across with our colonial friends. Good
luck Tom.
We have just run yet another one of our very popular rescue courses at
Blue Lagoon. We will be running another Rescue course
shortly, if anyone is interested in undertaking this
certification. To see some photographs of a previous rescue course events then please click on the
Rescue Diver title above.
We have just returned from a fun packed dive week. The diving was as good
as ever and the Thistlegorm was just spectacular.
Take a look at our
photo gallery.
Deposits now being taken for next year. Contact Dive Centre for
details.
If you have never tried the old "Men of Honour" diving suits and helmets
have a look at us on our club trip.
Men of Honour link
Cub Scouts Try Scuba Diving
Elsecar 26 Cub Scout Leader presented local scout with his Chief Scout
silver award for completing his Scuba Diving Personal Challenge with South
Yorkshire Diving Academy. The full group enjoyed a day scuba diving as a reward
for their fund raising efforts towards the Children with Leukaemia Charity.
Well done lads , hope you all had a great time. Many happy returns.
Everyone enjoyed the fun of playing with our underwater scooters. Click
here to see yourselves and the underwater scooters.
Pool Sessions 
We have access to pool sessions every week on Saturday evenings.
The Saturday session is a 3 metre pool. So why not come along to try out new kit or hone up your skills
before going onto open water. These sessions are proving to be very popular
indeed. If you would like to use the pool please contact
the dive centre a few days in advance.
Mid-week at Stoney Cove or Blue Lagoon
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Anyone who has spare time during the week and would like to go diving at
Stoney or the Blue Lagoon, please contact the Dive Centre.
Weekends
We also hope to be running lots of dive trips to locations throughout the
UK and updates of these outings will be posted on the notice board in the Dive
Centre. Even on weekends that we are conducting training we have plenty of staff
members who are willing to take people diving at Stoney Cove or Blue Lagoon whilst we are
there. Lets go diving.
We were at Blue Lagoon recently conducting a Night Diver Specialty
Course and had very good dives in excellent visibility and encountered loads of
Perch, Carp and Newts. We are available to run this course October to
March. We will have members of staff available to act as
buddies if anyone is interested in tagging along for a guided
dive and have a different kind of dive to put in your
logbook.
Congratulations to our latest group of SEALS. They have just
recently finished their Seal Team training and are hopefully going to continue
on to their Master Seal qualification. The Seal Team program is open to
youngsters of 8 years old up to 12 years of age and consists of pool based aquamissions that are designed to get young people into diving. To see some
images of these Seals please click HERE
For our next Seal
Team program Contact South Yorkshire Diving Academy.
We also hope to be running lots of dive trips to locations
throughout the U.K. Updates
of these outings will be posted on the notice board in the dive centre. Even on
the weekends that we are conducting training we have plenty of staff members who are
willing to take people diving at Stoney Cove or Blue Lagoon whilst we are there.
A short notice excursion to this dive site was arranged for
the other Sunday .
About a dozen divers made the journey up to North Shields and were greeted by
glorious weather to get a nice scenic shore dive. However the
area does have possibilities for further trips with perhaps some rib diving next
time we venture up. To see some images of this trip please click HERE
We had an excellent trip up to the Farnes and were blessed with good weather
and flat calm sea conditions. Put these factors together with a fantastic boat,
experienced skipper and superb visibility and all those who were lucky enough to
go on this trip had an experience to remember for a long time. A full trip
report with photographs will be appearing soon. In the mean time to see a few
images click HERE
Well what a fantastic weekend we all had on this trip. The weather and sea
state were absolutely spot on. The dive boat was very spacious and well set out
and the skipper and his mate looked after us all very well. We did three wreck
dives and one scenic dive. The visibility was good and we enjoyed close
encounters with seals , lobsters , crabs and loads of fish life. Please enjoy a few
photographs of this trip. click HERE
We had a fantastic time at one our favourite dive spots with good
weather and sea conditions. Some of our party were making their first ever boat
dives in the north sea. All coped really well and a great time was had by all
who attended. To see some photographs of our trips to St.Abbs click
HERE.
This event was a resounding success with a good time being had by all. To see
just a few pictures of how things went please click on the link above.
Diving some of the most stunning wrecks and reefs you will
come across. Night dive the Thistlegorm, diving the Salem. Truly special. Have a
look at the photos. RED SEA LIVEABOARD PHOTOS
CONGRATULATIONS
To all students who have completed courses over the last few
weeks to see pictures of the latest open water course or the students receiving their
certification cards please click on its link
below.
Latest Certification
PADI Seal Team
Open Water
Advanced Open Water Specialty
Divers
Rescue Diver
Emergency First Response
Divemaster
Instructor Course
