The lure of exploring sunken vessels, airplanes and automobiles is something most divers can't resist. The PADI Wreck Diver Specialty course introduces you to wreck diving and helps you develop the skills and knowledge necessary for safe and fun wreck diving.

With the British Isles having so many historical wreck sites around her shores, it wont be long until you decided to take a look and the PADI Wreck Diving Course with Simply Scuba is just the ticket. Teaching you how to plan your adventure back into the past so that you can make this magical world as safe and rewarding as possibe.

The purpose of the PADI Wreck Diver Specialty course is to familiarize divers with the skills, knowledge, planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems, hazards and excitement of diving on wrecks.

The Wreck Diver Specialty course is intended as a safe, supervised introduction to wreck diving, with emphasis on fun and safety. The goals of PADI Wreck Diver training are:

• To demonstrate practical wreck diving knowledge, including recognizing and avoiding potential hazards, and planning procedures that make wreck diving fun.
• Explain the historical value of wrecks, social and legal issues surrounding that value, and describe some of wreck diving’s implications, including the pros and cons of removing artifacts from wrecks.
• Plan and organize dives to safely explore wrecks found within depths and conditions as good as or better than those he has been trained in.
• Identify the hazards of wreck penetration diving and demonstrate the techniques and procedures required to minimize those hazards.

During the Open Water Dives segment participants are required to prepare their equipment, plan the dives and demonstrate good diving skills in that environment.

The recomended training time for this course is 24hrs, with 4 open water dive over at least two days. Typically the course would begin at Simply Scuba with the required theory and discussions about wreck diving followed be loading the equipment on the othe van and setting off to the chosen dive site. The logistics of the chosen wreck sites will dictate the schedule and may call for an over night stay.

Regardless of the loaction the performance requirements for the 4 open water dives are as follows;

Dive 1
• Swim on the outside of a wreck, maintaining proper buoyancy control, and identifying and avoiding potential hazards.
• Navigate on a wreck so that the ascent point can be located without surfacing, with the assistance of the instructor.
• Maintain neutral buoyancy and body position so that the bottom is avoided.

  Dive 2

• Swim along the outside of a wreck, in a buddy team, identifying and avoiding potential hazards.
• With a buddy, map a wreck (or portion of a wreck), determining approximate size and marking points of interest.
• Survey a wreck for a penetration dive and evaluate possible entrances.
• Navigate on a wreck, returning to the ascent point without surfacing.

  Dive 3

• Demonstrate the deployment and retrieval of a penetration line, for practice, on the outside of a wreck, while working in buddy teams.
• Swim along the deployed penetration line so as to maintain contact with the line without kicking up silt and holding on to a dive light.
• Navigate on a wreck so that the ascent point can be located without surfacing.

  Dive 4

• Determining air supply and penetration limits.
• Swimming without causing excessive silt disturbance.
• Maintaining contact with the line.
• Using a dive light while following a penetration line.
• Navigate on a wreck so that the ascent point can be located without surfacing.

   

Be certified as a PADI Adventure Diver (or have a qualifying certification from another training organization similar to that of a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver.)

Be 15 years of age or older.

Hire of diving equipment.

Dive site entrance fees, and PADI Certification fees.

Boat fees where applicable

Accomadation costs where applicable.

Transportation from Simply Scuba dive centre to the pool and or selected dive site venue is your responsibility.

2 passport sized photographs.

Your log book and proof of your current level of diving certification.

Swim Wear and Towel.

Packed lunches.

*Participants under 16 years must be accompanied on the course by a suitably qualified parent or legal guardian.

Like all training courses where certain levels of performance are required to pass it is important to realize that you must reach the required levels of proficiency for each aspect of the course in order for the instructor to certify you, (just like on a driving test). If you fail to achieve the required standards we will endeavor to give you the opportunity for further training, however this would incur additional cost.

Wreck penetration-training dives are limited to within the light zone and within 40 metres/130 feet from the surface, vertical and horizontal distance included. If the wreck used for training is located in deep water (over 18 metres/60 feet), the Deep Diver rating is recommended as a prerequisite for the Wreck Diver program.

This Specialty certification also counts as one of five Specialty certifications required for your Master Scuba Diver certification.

If you have'nt already earned it then to get the most out of you wreck diving you should should seriously consider enroling in a