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Speciality Courses

We offer a wide selection of speciality courses to enable you to dive safely in very diverse environments and dry specialities such as equipment and oxygen provision plus our first aid course, geared for those wishing to attend Rescue Diver course or to refresh. All courses are one or two days in duration and the cost includes your course materials, air fills where applicable & certification fees. You’ll be responsible for your own travel to and from training locations, site entry & boat fees if applicable. Unless otherwise stated you’ll be a minimum of 15 years of age with an open water qualification, or equivalent, from any agency to enrol.

Plan and conduct deep dives to 40 metres considering increased air consumption, temperature changes, shorter no-decompression limits and physiological effects such as nitrogen narcosis whilst developing your basic dive physics and physiology knowledge. A prerequisite course for those who wish to get into technical diving. RAID can offer the final dive using mild trimix.

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Minimum qualification – Advanced open water or equivalent.

In UK waters and particularly during winter months, a drysuit is certainly an essential piece of diving equipment ensuring warmth & comfort, extending your dive time. This course is an introduction to dry suit diving and helps you develop the skills, knowledge and techniques necessary for dry suit diving.

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Extend your no-decompression limits whilst minimising your surface interval time, you’ll be trained to use enriched air with 22-40% oxygen content. It develops the knowledge required to plan, analyse and use an Enriched Air Nitrox mix for recreational and no decompression diving. You’ll learn to analyse and tag a Nitrox cylinder, plan for a maximum ppO2 of 1.4 ata at target depth and understand the planning required to deal with oxygen toxicity and effects of CNS and OTUs.

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Nitrox dive on request.

RAID Ecological Diver

The academic manual focuses on:

• The goals and challenges of marine conservation

• A holistic understanding of the ocean environment

• Anthropogenic, or human-caused threats to the ecosystem

• Current conservation strategies including proactive methods of repairing damage and the value of premeditated efforts influenced by monitoring and evaluation

• How scientific efforts influence policy

• Systemic behavioural changes that can accelerate conversation efforts

Concentrating on buoyancy, trim, propulsion and observation exercises.

RAID First Aid

Regardless of if you are a diver or not, there are always accidents waiting to happen, one day, you could make a difference and save someone's life. Whether you’d like to learn first aid, require a refresher or require it for your Rescue Diver course this course is based on internationally recognised medical guidelines for emergency care. Broken into two components, Primary Care (CPR) and Secondary Care (First Aid) the course is structured to help you remember emergency care procedures and apply these skills in times of need. You’ll have access to course materials and you’ll be applying this knowledge through practical sessions.

You’ll learn to recognise signs and symptoms and treatment of decompression illness/sickness, lung expansion injuries and barotraumas and how to deliver 100% oxygen to victims of diving accidents. You’ll learn about different types of oxygen provision equipment and learn competency in its delivery, making a dramatic difference in the diver's immediate condition before we get the patient into the nearest recompression chamber for subsequent treatment. An annual requirement for HSE divers.

This course introduces you to the planning, procedures, hazards and joys of night diving. You’ll use torches & chemical sticks both underwater and on the surface and we like to use a site in Pembrokeshire to conduct the course where you’ll observe very different patterns of behaviour of the sealife that we’ll observe. The course will develop your confidence to conduct night dives – thoroughly enjoyable!

You’ll learn to plan execute dives in limited visibility using various search patterns and navigational techniques to locate and recover sunken objects using specialist and bespoke lifting devices.

Navigation is key to any dive, especially in limited visibility. You’ll learn how to use a wide range of skills including the natural environment, in conjunction with your compass and methods to estimate travelled distance to get the best from your dives.