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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.        

Congratulations to a new Divemaster         

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.

Rescue Diver Course                       

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.

Red Sea Photo Gallery                       

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.

Hard Hat Diving                                    

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.

Birthday Party                                                  

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      

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.

Night Dive at Blue Lagoon                    

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.

PADI Seal Team                     

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

Weekend Activities

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.

St.Mary's Lighthouse

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

Farne Islands         

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

Anglesey                   

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

St. Abbs                                          

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.

Christmas Bash

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.

Red Sea Liveaboard

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.

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