It’s that time of year again when many people are digging out their dive kit after being locked away in the garage during the winter.  Many of these will be getting in touch asking to brush up their skills with a Scuba Review or just want to get in the pool to make...

January, normally being a quiet time of year, we had planned to some spring cleaning in the dive centre.  However, best laid plans of mice and men, things don’t normally turn out the way you wish them to.  With a new Instructor Development Course starting the...

A blink of the eye and it’s all over. For the last 3 months I swapped the drudgery of day to day life in the UK for the paradise that is Belize. It was my first time traveling alone and I fell in love with this beautiful land from the word go! Looking back at my time...

When in conversation and people ask me what I do, and I tell them that I am a Scuba Diving Instructor, I often get the reply ‘I’m a diver too!’.  Once I start talking to them, I realise they did the PADI Open Water course before they went to the Maldives on...

So an early call on Monday morning, still dark outside and off I go to Gatwick airport, to meet Mark from Oyster Diving, a London based Dive Centre, and then on a flight to Barcelona.  I was lucky enough to be one of a chosen few to be invited to Spain on a...

After only diving for 3 months I feel like it’s a huge part of my life already. I aspire to become a marine biologist someday so I decided to volunteer in Fiji by taking part in a marine conservation project for 7 weeks. This was my first time travelling alone so I...

Following on from our last blog, we’ve had a very busy summer.  With Rhonda now back in the water and Shaun back from Cyprus, we have more options for Open Water training. One of the problems that many dive centres face is the voluntary nature of the staff.  Over the...

As a freshly trained Open Water diver, I haven’t had as much experience as most other divers. Indeed, I’ve never gone diving in the ocean before, so Swanage was always going to be a new experience for me.  However, it never occurred to me that I was not only going to...

Zoe & Celine’s Blog – Red Sea Northern Reefs and Wrecks We have been asked to let you all know about the recent Orca Scuba Diving Academy trip to the Red Sea.  Prior to us leaving the UK we got an update from Scuba Travel that our liveaboard had been...

Sorry for the absence, it has been a very busy time. The season got off to a good start with a 12 man dive team going down to the Undive Fest.  Since 2011 we have supported the Dive Festival down in Pentuin Sands, Cornwall, but unfortunately this year it was cancelled...