Learn to Dive

Padi Drysuit Diver will allow you to see the spectacular and prolific aquatic life often found in colder water climates, you’ll need to stay warm and that means a drysuit. But you want to be trained in proper techniques and this is where the PADI Dry Suit Diver Specialty course comes in. During your PADI Dry Suit Diver Specialty course, you’ll not only cover the background knowledge related to dry suit diving, you’ll get into confined water to put that theory into practice. Once you’ve mastered confined water, it’s time for two open water dives and applying that knowledge, including dive planning, organization, techniques, problems and buoyancy control.

Course Prerequisites

  • PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization)
  • Be medically fit to dive, please carefully read the medical declaration below
  • Pre-study course manual and fill in review sections before start of the course
  • Watch DVD before start of the course

Minimum age

  • 12 years

How is the course run?

  • 1 day open water

What it will cost, and what you'll need

Course Fee: £135.00               

                     

What’s included?

  • Drysuit Manual
  • Life time certification
  • Use of all the expensive scuba equipment (suits, weights, cylinders, BCD and regulator)
  • Dry Suit Diver DVD (returnable after course, and if not returned will be charged at £22.75)

Sold separately: Course £113.00 , manual £22.13, DVD £22.75

What’s not included?

  • Transport to dive sites
  • Dive site fees, typically start at £16 per day at Vobster Quay, Frome
  • Basic equipment for open water dives, mask, snorkel, fins and boots (gloves from October to May)

Dates

Mon 9 April

Fri 25 May

Sun 8 July

Sun 19 August

Sun 14 October

Sun 2 December

Fri 17 February

Sun 21 April

Fri 1 June

Fri 20 July

Sun 16 September

Sun 28 October

Sun 23 December

Sun 26 February

Sun 29 April

Sun 10 June

Sun 22 July

Fri 28 September

Fri 2 November

Sun 30 December

Fri 9 March

Fri 11 May

Sun 24 June

Sun 5 August

Sun 30 September

Sun 4 November

 

Notes

All courses run from 9am to 5:30pm (approximately) and a minimum of 3 people is required for a course to run, unless otherwise stated.

Personal tuition may be available, ask for details and prices. Andark supports equal opportunities - if you have any special requirements, please get in touch with us.

How to Book

Booking a course with Andark couldn't be more straight forward, there are three simple steps to follow:

  1. Phone us to check the availibility of the course that you have chosen, and the dates you wish to attend.
  2. Download and complete the booking form, and return to us by post.
  3. Download and complete the medical declaration form, and return to us by post.

Please click on the icons on the right to download a PDF copy of our booking and medical declaration forms.

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Booking Form

Medical Declaration