PADI Drysuit Diver Specialty

The PADI Drysuit course is going to open up a whole new world of diving for you as it gives you the freedom to enter water too cold for a wetsuit. U.K. waters have some of the best cold water diving in the world. Be it playing with Grey Seals or exploring any one of the thousands of wrecks that litter the waters off the coast. This is diving on our door step!

Course Prerequisites

PADI Open Water Diver or above.  There are no minimum dives.  Only a desire to explore the excellent dives cold water environs have to offer! 

What You Will Learn:

• Knowledge Development is going to give you the information needed to know about different types of dry suits, how to care for your dry suit, how to get in and out of your suit and most importantly how to dive with your dry suit.
• The second part of the course is to take your dry suit into a safe, easy environment to try it out. Wraysbury Lake, close to Heathrow airport is ideal. Our Instructor will help you in and out and run through the skills in shallow water needed to safely dive with a dry suit. An important skill will be knowing how to correctly adjust your weighting system. This is the perfect opportunity to fine tune your buoyancy whilst diving dry! 
• Afterwards its time for 2 Open Water dives. Your Instructor will lead you around the various attractions the lake has to offer including a bus, a set of traffic lights and who knows....you might even see a pike or two. These 2 dives are will be to a max depth of 10m...perfect to get used to the feeling of diving in a drysuit.

Course Cost:  £165 - Course costs include, manual, DVD and certification to PADI, 1 days diving with 2 dives at Wraysbury Lake. Full kit hire not including Drysuit. These are available from the dive centre for £20 per day plus £5 for an undersuit.  Each student pays their own entry to the Lake.

For course dates please see the 'Activities' section on the right hand side.  Call 01483 279879 to book on today!