Refresh Your Dive Skills!
If you’ve not been diving for a couple of years and have a trip coming up, we recommend a pool refresher session or sea Check Dive to practice key diving skills, buoyancy control and to remind yourself of gear set-up. Our pool refresher and sea Check Dive sessions are run by PADI Dive Professionals and are open to anyone with PADI Open Water or an equivalent qualification. We use a pool in the colder months or if we don't have suitable sea conditions. From June to October we run Check Dives in Ilfracombe Harbour or Hele Bay whenever possible. If it's been longer than 2 years, depending on experience level we recommend you undertake a PADI Reactivate, which is a more in-depth refresher covering theory as well as practical skills
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Pool Refresher
The session covers equipment set-up and breakdown and includes a 1 hour pool session (depending on group size) at an outdoor pool in Ilfracombe.
During the session a PADI Instructor or Dive Master will supervise practice of key dive safety skills.
Price: £55 per person
Length: 2.5 hours (1 hour in the pool)
Location: Ilfracombe
Included: Instruction, scuba equipment hire, tank and airfill
Pre-requisite: Must hold a minimum diving qualification of PADI Scuba Diver or equivalent. Please review the medical statement and terms and conditions before booking
Next 2020 Sessions:
Pools currently closed to divers due to Covid 19 restrictions
Check Dives
If you're looking to refresh your dive skills in the summer months or need a Check Dive before coming on a Lundy dive trip, sign-up for one of our summer evening Check Dives in Ilfracombe Harbour or Hele Bay.
There is lots of life to be found in and around the harbour area, hiding amongst the rocky outcrops and chinks in the harbour wall. Calmer conditions also mean better vis than you will normally find off-shore around the North Devon Coast.
You'll begin the dive with a key dive skills run-through with a PADI Instructor and then the rest of the time will be spent swimming along the harbour wall and rocky outcrops looking for 3 species of Crab (Spider Crabs in July & August), Lobsters, Dog Fish, (the UK's smallest Shark), passing shoals and even an occasional seal!
We provide a safety boat for reassurance and to keep divers safe from any passing boat craft. If the tides aren't right for the Harbour, Check Dives will take place in Hele Bay subject to Swell and visibility or a pool if we can't safely dive in the sea. Dives in Hele Bay are more about practicing skills and buoyancy, there is not as much wildlife to see in the tidal zone.
Price: £65 per person including full equipment hire
Dates: Tbc
Pool Refresher Terms & Conditions
You have read the PADI Medical Form and confirmed that you can answer no to all of the questions or that you have been signed off by your doctor as fit to dive
You hold a minimum dive qualification of PADI Scuba Diver or equivalent
Your session will include 1 hour in the pool
If you are unwell or there are unforeseen circumstances preventing you from taking part, we will aim to refund you in full if at all possible or if not possible we will refund as much of the costs as we can after we have covered your proportion of our non-recoverable costs, ie pre-paid pool hire charges/staff wages.
Diving Medical Form
If you need to answer yes to any of the questions, you need to print and take the whole form to your doctor for sign off before booking.
Check Dives Terms & Conditions
You have read the PADI Medical Form and confirmed that you can answer no to all of the questions or that you have been signed off by your doctor as fit to dive
You can show evidence of a minimum dive qualification of PADI Open Water or equivalent and a logged dive within the last 2 years
If you need to cancel we can only offer a partial refund unless we can fill your space
We have allowed adequate time for this activity and if you have difficulty descending or completing any of the skills we will help you as much as possible but cannot delay the activity for more than 10 minutes for the sake of the rest of the group
We offer dive equipment for hire in standard small, medium, large and extra large sizes. If you think you may be of a non-standard size it is worth discussing this with us before you book your experience
We offer full 5mm wetsuits with a 5mm shorty over the top, plus hood and gloves which is sufficient for UK waters in the summer season
Maximum dive time is 40 minutes
Diving Medical Form
If you need to answer yes to any of the questions, you need to print and take the whole form to your doctor for sign off before booking.
