Bay Divers goes Tec!

Karl our lead instructor has been busy over the last few months with world renowned instructor trainer Paul Toomer conducting technical diver training in the IANTD and PADI Tecrec programmes. He has just qualified as a PADI Tecrec instructor and as such can now teach entry level technical diver training. The entry level course is the Tec40 course and applicants need to be advanced open water diver or equivalent with deep diver training and nitrox qualification. Watch this space for our first tech diver training course, exciting times ahead and the future is definitely tec!! 

Next PADI open water course commences Monday 4th June 2012 at Morriston Leisure Centre- spaces
Next Advanced open water course  9th/10th June -spaces
We are also taking bookings for nitrox, deep and wreck diving courses, providing there is at least two of you, we can tailor a course to suit.

Tec diving is generally described as diving between 40 and 100 metres, conducting decompression and for certain depths changing the breathing gas mix which includes open and closed circuit (rebreather). TEC DIVE TRAINING IS HERE!! We now provide the PADI TecRec technical dive training and full details can be found on the tab marked 'Technical Dive Training' for which you need to be an advanced open water diver with nitrox & deep diver training with a certain amount of dives. We also provide a gateway into other tec diving organisations such as International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers (IANTD) and International Association of Rebreather Trainers (IART).
A massive well done to Dean who after gaining significant experience of assisting students in the pool and open water has successfully completed his Divemaster training course, our first on the new and better structured PADI DM programme. He is warmly welcomed into the fold as a PADI professional.
From Thursday 17th May we will be training once a month at the pool in the Village Hotel in SA1, predominantly a taster for their gym members we will be taking the odd student along.

PADI is the world’s leading scuba diving training organisation. We train 70 percent of the world's scuba divers in 6,000 dive centres worldwide. Come and transform your life through education, experience, equipment and environmental conservation and meet some new friends along the way!

Bay Divers are Swansea's own home grown PADI accredited Dive Resort and as such offer a wide range of dive experiences, courses from beginner to professional level and equipment rental. Our instructors have amassed years of diving experience throughout the world and come from very diverse backgrounds yet you can be rest assured of first rate training in a professional yet friendly atmospehere.  

Learn to dive from the tender age of ten! We offer one hour certificated try dives in the pool for only £20 and you can book in for any Monday evening slot (except bank holidays) at Morriston Leisure Centre, Swansea, SA6 6NN.

You can also have an all day experience aimed for complete beginners in open water at a site either here along the stunning Gower coast or in West Wales.

If you've enjoyed your experience you can enrol on the PADI open water course, your scuba diving licence, allowing you to dive the world over to a maximum depth of 18 metres. Our PADI open water course culminates with two fun and action packed days of scuba diving either in the Gower and West Wales or at the National Dive Activity Centre in Chepstow. We do however, much prefer our dives in the sea! After the open water course and most often than not after a little experience you can enrol on the PADI advanced open water course qualifying you to dive to 30 metres.

We also offer:

• Progression courses up to and including professional levels.
• Wide range of PADI speciality courses such as boat, wreck, nitrox and deep diving.
• Multi agency technical dive training between 40 and 100 metres and rebreather training.
• Guided dives for qualified divers in the Gower and the conservation areas of West Wales where there's an abundance of sea life such as octopus and seals, not to mention the shipwrecks!

We have a dive club too and we welcome divers from any agency, everyone welcome. All details of our courses and services can be found on our website - have a good look around and we hope to see you diving with us soon!

Scapa Flow October 2011

October saw a couple of Bay Divers club members travel to Northern Scotland to embark on the MV Invincible a dive charter boat for five days serious wreck diving. Scapa Flow is approximately 120 square miles of sea closely surrounded by the islands of the Orkney Islands. Being a natural harbour, this location was a designated as an anchorage for the Royal Navy before and during both world wars. After Germany surrendered in WWI, her entire fleet was ordered to sail to Scapa Flow to anchor whilst the allied powers decided their fate. A year after the war's end in June 1919, German sailors still aboard their vessels were ordered to 'Scuttle' and the entire fleet went to the bottom. A decade or so later a few were salvaged but today several ships lay in depths not exceeding 40 metres. To give you an idea, the displacement on one of our current aircraft carriers is 15,000 tonnes. Three great battleships lay there today weighing in at a collosal 25,000 tonnes. Awesome wreck diving to be had!

We drove through the night from Swansea to Northern Scotland in two cars and a minibus carrying equipment and boarded a ferry the next morning out of Scrabster bound for the Orkneys. On arrival and after transferring all equipment to the dive vessel a bit of rest was in order, followed by a couple of beers and a  meal in the local pub enjoying the sounds of a local band! After a solid night's sleep we sailed to dive the 'Imperial Fleet'. We had two dives a day, one early morning before a tremendous breakfast onboard and one mid-afternoon before returning alongside in the late afternoon. We repeated this for five days. Most onboard were 'tec divers' diving with twinsets and single stage cylinders for decompression enabling much longer dives. It was an absolutely awesome week, with us diving awesome wrecks such as the immense battleship Krohnprinz Wilhelm and crusiers Koeln, Karlsruhe and shallower Churchill's blockships culminating with an absolutely incredible negative entry dive on the Tarbaka as the tide was ripping!! Thoroughly recommended diving and we must say thanks to the guys who organised it and invited us along….We'll be planning our own trip in due course!!!