Padi OW Dives 3 & 4



Back in the water with L6 Adventure students for their final dives to qualify as PADI Open Water divers. Well done to Harry, Brandon and Dom who passed today.

First Open Water Dive



Today the L6 Adventure students took to the water for their first Open Water dive in the sea just off the Hoe in Plymouth. Visibility was limited but the water was a warm 16 degrees and all 5 managed to enjoy a nice swim around.  With a short break, we hit the water for dive 2 to complete some more skills. Only Thursday's dives to go and then we will have 5 more qualified divers.

Pool Diving Sessions



Today the L6 Adventure Bac students completed all of their Pool Dives for the PADI Open Water Qualification.

Dive Gozo Day 6

 Will, Emily, Robbie and Dario

 Safety Stop on the Anchor Chain

 Matthew

Today was the boat diving day. This morning we all headed out to Comino, the small island between us and Malta where we dived the P31 Wreck in the morning. This was a fantastic new experience for a lot of the students who had not dived from a boat before and had to do free descents down "into the blue". We moved round the corner into a bay for lunch and then dived the Comino Caves in the afternoon. A shallower but amazing dive into and out of tunnels. On the way into the caves, we had some bread left from lunch and the Bream came and ate from our hands. See the video above of Mr Starks getting mobbed by hungry fish.

Dive Gozo Day 5

 

 Will S on his Birthday

 Dario

This morning, the OW students finished their course in Xlendi Bay. Congratulations to all 6 who passed. The others headed to The Inland Sea. This afternoon, everyone headed to Xwejni Bay where we all had a shallower but interesting dive. At 20:30 some of us will be back in for our night dive.

Dive Gozo Day 4

Emily

Hamza

 Dario

 Robbie

 Will

The OW students had their training dives 2, 3 and 4 in Xlendi Bay whilst the fun divers went to Cathedral Cave. Unfortunately after a night of wind the bay was a bit murky.

Dive Gozo Day 3

 

 Jas

 Jas and Amy

 Will and Timmy

 Dario and Elliot

 Will

 

Dr Jordan 

 

This morning we headed to Coral Gardens near The Blue Hole for our first dive of around 20 metres. The OW students finished their last pool session and theory tests. After lunch, the fun divers split and the advanced party went to the Inland Sea whilst the other took on the tunnel in Xlendi Bay.
Finally at around 15:30, the OW students left the confines of the swimming pool and had their first trip in Xlendi Bay to a depth of around 8m.

Dive Gozo Day 2

 Matthew

 Will

 Amy

Timmy

Whilst the OW students continued their training in the pool (although they were let into the sea for their swim test), the rest of us headed to The Blue Hole for some great diving including spotting some Grouper. After lunch, we dived at Xaat - L Ahmar, a shallower reef with a variety of fish life.

I am doing my best to swim around and video each group as much as possible so all students get to appear on this blog.

Dive Gozo Day 1

Dr J

Will & Timmy

Having left Plymouth on Saturday night, we travelled by minibus, plane, bus, ferry and another minibus to arrive at our base at Moby Dives on the island of Gozo.

7 of the students are taking the PADI Open Water course, 1 taking the Advanced OW and 5 are here purely for fun. Todays fun dives were in Xlendi Bay and  at Raz-il Hobz in 23 degree water whilst the OW students were in the slightly colder swimming pool.

PADI Open Water Final Dives

Today the Sport and Adventure students were out for their final dives and although it was a beautiful day the wind and waves forced us into New England Quarry. This gave us good visibility and still conditions for all the remaining skills to be covered.

With 2 Open Water Certificates and 2 Scuba Diver Certificates gained, it has been a success all round. Well done to you all.

G. Starks (Head of Outdoor Education)

"Diving was fun and exciting but I found it challenging and a bit scary" Ana

"It was fun to try something new using the compassess and seeing the underwater heli" Will

It was a very chilly experience but once I was swimming I was fine and it was cool seeing a helicopter underwater" Sean

PADI OW Sea Dives

Today the Sport and Adventure Bac students headed off to Fort Bovisand for some Open Water Dive Training. Visibility varied between poor and ok whilst the water temperature was around 15 degrees.

PADI Open Water Pool Session 2

Back in the Pool today with the Sport and Adventure Baccalaureatte students for their second day of the PADI Open Water Course. We looked at the final skills including no mask swim, removal of weight belts and free flowing regulators

Next week we will be going to out into the Sea

PADI Open Water Pool Session 1

 (L to R) Miss Lindsey, Ana, Sean, Hayley (Instructor), Will

 Will and Sean (Mr Starks' bad videoing)

Today the Sport and Adventure students started their confined water training of the PADI Open Water Diver qualification. We spent a couple of hours in the pool going through mask and regulator clearing techniques as well as looking at out of air scenarios.