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PADI Adventure Diver Course
Course Code NDAC-PADI-AD

Adventure Diver
The PADI Adventure Diver certification allows people with limited time to experience different types of diving, whilst increasing their diving knowledge and experience.

As part of this course you will complete 3 adventure dives to gain your qualification (Deep and Underwater Navigation are mandatory). If at a later date you decide to upgrade to Advanced Open Water, you only have to complete 2 more dives!

After completing your course, you will be certification to 30 meters (21 meters for Junior Divers aged 12 – 14 years old and for 10 – 11 year olds, its 12 meters).

Duration Cost Previous Experience/ Notes Dates
1 Day £135

Minimum age – 10 years old.

Be certified as a PADI Open Water or Junior Open Water Diver, or have a qualifying certification from another training organisation.

Review, complete and sign all PADI documents prior to in-water training.

 

Courses are available on demand throughout the year to suit your time schedule. Contact us to arrange a date.
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PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course
Course Code NDAC-PADI-AOWD

Advanced Open Water Diver
So you’ve got the skills to dive safely, now you want to explore special diving interests and gain experience.

The PADI Advanced Open Water program allows you to customise your training path and learn various underwater tasks that broaden your capabilities as a diver.

You will complete 5 adventure dives (Deep and Underwater Navigation mandatory dives, aimed at increasing your diving skills).

With your PADI Instructor, you will select 3 more adventure dives tailored to your diving interests.

Upon completion of your course, you will be certified to dive to 30 meters (21 meters for Junior Divers aged 12 – 14 years old).

 

Duration Cost Previous Experience/ Notes Dates
2 Days

£199

Minimum age – 12 years old.

Be certified as a PADI Open Water or Junior Open Water Diver, or have a qualifying certification from another training organisation.

Review, complete and sign all PADI documents prior to in-water training.

Courses are available on demand throughout the year to suit your time schedule. Contact us to arrange a date.

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PADI Rescue Diver Course
Course Code NDAC-PADI-RD

Rescue Diver
PADI Rescue Divers will tell you this course is both challenging and rewarding. It will take you to a new level of diving by making you more confident and prepared in the event of a diving emergency.

The PADI Rescue Diver course is a pivotal step in expanding your knowledge and experience. You will learn to look beyond yourself to consider the safety and well being of other divers.

Before starting the PADI Rescue Diver course you must successfully complete a sanctioned course in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR – Primary Care) and basic First Aid (Secondary Care) within the past 24 months.

Not CPR/First aid trained? Combine the Emergency First Response (EFR) Primary Care (CPR) and Secondary Care (First Aid) course with the PADI Rescue Diver course and qualify for a discount!

 

Duration Cost Previous Experience/ Notes Dates
4 Days

£250

£320 including EFR

 

Minimum age – 12 years old.

Be certified as a PADI Advanced Open Water or Junior Advanced Open Water Diver, or have a qualifying certification from another training organisation.

Be certified in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR – Primary Care) and basic First Aid (Secondary Care) within the past 24 months.

Review, complete and sign all PADI documents prior to in-water training.

Courses are available on demand throughout the year to suit your time schedule. Contact us to arrange a date.
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Emergency First Response Primary Care (CPR) & Secondary Care (First Aid)
Course Code NDAC-PADI-EFR

Emergency First Response at NDAC
Creating confidence to care. Emergency First Response is the fastest-growing international CPR, AED and first aid training organisation.

The Emergency First Response course builds lay-rescuer confidence to provide care when faced with a medical emergency.

You will learn and practice the same patient care techniques and principles used by medical professionals, but at a layperson level.

Though independent study and skills practice with your EFR Instructor, you will gain the training needed to help not only a diver in need, but maybe a friend, family member, neighbour or co-worker.

 

Duration Cost Previous Experience/ Notes Dates
1 Day £95

No previous experience required.

No minimum age.

Courses are available on demand throughout the year to suit your time schedule. Contact us to arrange a date.
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Keep Diving
How far will you take this diving thing? It's up to you. With PADI Specialty Diver Programs you can chart your course for a colorful collection of awesome dives. Sure, your PADI certification opens up the oceans and lakes to you, but the PADI Specialty Dives take the underwater adventure to depths that will stir your soul. Achieving PADI Specialty ratings can take anywhere from as little as one day to a full weekend -but this is all hands-on, so you'll be diving right from the start.

Below are the numerous specialty certifications offered by the National Diving & Activity centre. Get five specialty ratings and you're on your way to becoming a PADI Master Scuba Diver.

PADI Digital Underwater Photography Speciality
Course Code NDAC-PADI-DUP

PADI Digital Underwater Photography Course
Digital has taken the underwater photography world by storm. Get in on the action with the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty course. You can quickly and easily capture the underwater world with your camera and on your computer.

This course is aimed at improving your underwater photography skills using a compact camera. You’ll be taking better pictures faster than you ever imagined.

Sign up today and start sharing your underwater memories with family and friends.

 

 

Duration Cost Previous Experience/ Notes Dates
1 Day £120

Minimum age – 10 years old.

Be certified as a PADI Open Water or Junior Open Water Diver, or have a qualifying certification from another training organisation.

Review, complete and sign all PADI documents prior to in-water training.

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PADI Boat Diver Speciality
Course Code NDAC-PADI-BD

PADI Boat Diver
Whether you've never made a boat dive or you've logged dozens, the PADI Boat Diver Specialty course can benefit almost every diver because different boats in different parts of the world do things differently.

The PADI Boat Diver Specialty course familiarizes you with the various ways you stow gear, enter and exit the water, use surface lines and more, depending upon the boat type and the location.

Duration Cost Previous Experience/ Notes Dates
1 Day

£75
Does not include boat fees

Minimum age – 10 years old.

Be certified as a PADI Open Water or Junior Open Water Diver, or have a qualifying certification from another training organisation.

Review, complete and sign all PADI documents prior to in-water training.

Courses are available on demand between April and September to suit your time schedule. Contact us to arrange a date.
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PADI Night Diver Speciality
Course Code NDAC-PADI-ND

PADI Night Diver
As the sun sets, you don your dive gear, slip on your mask and bite down on your regulator. A deep breath and you step off the boat –and into the underwater night. Although you've seen this reef many times before, this time you drop into a whole new world and watch it come to life under the glow of your dive light.

The adventure, thrill and excitement of night diving can be yours when you complete your PADI Night Diver Specialty course. You learn about night dive planning, equipment and navigation. You practice these on three night dives, plus introduce yourself to the whole new cast of critters that comes out after the sun goes down.

Duration Cost Previous Experience/ Notes Dates
3 evenings £120

Minimum age – 12 years old.

Be certified as a PADI Open Water or Junior Open Water Diver, or have a qualifying certification from another training organisation.

Review, complete and sign all PADI documents prior to in-water training.

Courses are available throughout September to April, when the evenings are darker. Contact us to arrange a date or for more information.
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PADI Deep Diver Speciality
Course Code NDAC-PADI-DD

PADI Deep Diver
Ever wanted to dive that one wreck that’s just out of reach? What about diving with sharks in the Red Sea but can’t get close enough? Or those colourful reef walls you’ve heard about but so far you’ve been unable to experience it for yourself.

These are just some of the reasons to complete your PADI Deep Diver Specialty course and to go Deep Diving.

The PADI Deep Diver Speciality will allow you to dive to a maximum depth of 40 meters, which is considered to be the maximum depth for Recreational Divers.

As you’ll be venturing deeper into the underwater world, there are inherent risks and a few more considerations. In this course you will learn how to minimise these risks and dive safely to new depths.

 

Duration Cost Previous Experience/ Notes Dates
2 Days £149

Minimum age – 15 years old.

Be certified as a PADI Adventure Diver , or have a qualifying certification from another training organisation.

Review, complete and sign all PADI documents prior to in-water training.

Courses are available on demand throughout the year to suit your time schedule. Contact us to arrange a date.
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PADI Wreck Diver Speciality
Course Code NDAC-PADI-WD

PADI Wreck Diver

You drift down and enter a window into the past. As you near the bottom, a recognizable shape begins to form. First, you see a straight line, then a round window. Next, a ship materializes in front of you. As you look at the wreck, past and present meet.

Whether sunk intentionally or tragically, be it a sunken ship, a plane or an automobile; the call of a wreck is nearly irresistible to divers.

Through the PADI Wreck Diver Specialty course you will learn and practice the skills and knowledge that is vital for safe wreck diving.

As part of this course, you will have the option for a days diving from the South Coast on two wrecks. Please note that boat fees are not included in the course cost.

 

Duration Cost Previous Experience/ Notes Dates
2 Days £149

Minimum age – 15 years old.

Be certified as a PADI Adventure Diver , or have a qualifying certification from another training organisation.

Review, complete and sign all PADI documents prior to in-water training.

Courses are available on demand throughout the year to suit your time schedule. Contact us to arrange a date.
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PADI Dry Suit Diver Speciality
Course Code NDAC-PADI-DSD

drysuit diver

Want to stay warm and toasty when diving? Fed up of only going diving through the summer months? Then this is the course for you!

To become a well-seasoned UK diver, and to open up other diving possibilities like Ice Diving, becoming a PADI Dry Suit Diver is an essential certification to have.

The PADI Dry Suit Speciality course is designed to help you develop the skills, knowledge and techniques necessary for dry suit diving.

 

Duration Cost Previous Experience/ Notes Dates
1 Day £95, or £35 if you purchase your Dry Suit through the NDAC shop

Minimum age – 10 years old.

Be certified as a PADI Open Water or Junior Open Water Diver, or have a qualifying certification from another training organisation.

Review, complete and sign all PADI documents prior to in-water training.

Courses are available on demand throughout the year to suit your time schedule. Contact us to arrange a date.
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PADI Search and Recovery Speciality
Course Code NDAC-PADI-SRD

PADI Search & recovery
Being a diver, you spend a lot of time around water; the ocean, a lake or a quarry. Sooner or later something may go “slash” and sink to the murky depths. You may be looking for some underwater treasures, but how do you find them? And once found, how do you get it to the surface?

If you want a new mental and physical challenge this course is for you.

The PADI Search and Recovery Speciality course is where you will learn and develop the necessary skills, knowledge and techniques for safe search and recovery diving.

This course is recommended for PADI Rescue Divers, as it will offer you a chance to hone your missing diver search skills.

Duration Cost Previous Experience/ Notes Dates
2 Days £149

Minimum age – 12 years old.

Be certified as a PADI Advanced Open Water or Junior Advanced Open Water Diver, or have a qualifying certification from another training organisation.

Or, be certified as a PADI Open Water or Junior Open Water Diver with a PADI Underwater Navigation Speciality Diver certification (or have a qualifying Underwater Navigation certification from another training organisation).

Review, complete and sign all PADI documents prior to in-water training.

Courses are available on demand throughout the year to suit your time schedule. Contact us to arrange a date.
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PADI Underwater Navigators Speciality
Course Code NDAC-PADI-UN

PADI Underwater Navigators Course
Be the diver everyone wants to follow and make your sense of direction legendary with the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course.

When everyone’s buzzing about a reef or checking out a wreck, they're having a great time – until it's time to go. Then they turn to you, because as a PADI Underwater Navigator, you know the way back to the boat.

Underwater navigation can be challenging, but in the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course, you master the challenge. You will learn the tools of the trade, including navigation via natural clues and by compass.

By the end of the course you will be able to estimate distance underwater, follow navigation patterns and know where you are while following an arbitrary, irregular course using the 'Nav-Finder'.

 

 

Duration Cost Previous Experience/ Notes Dates
2 Days £149

Minimum age – 10 years old.

Be certified as a PADI Open Water or Junior Open Water Diver, or have a qualifying certification from another training organisation.

Review, complete and sign all PADI documents prior to in-water training.

Courses are available on demand throughout the year to suit your time schedule. Contact us to arrange a date.
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PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Speciality
Course Code NDAC-PADI-PPB

Peak Performance Buoyancy Course
Total buoyancy control is the trademark of an experienced and eco friendly diver. It separates the good divers from the great divers.

The PADI Peak Performance Speciality course will teach you the skills and knowledge needed to progress and master your buoyancy past the level of Open Water Diver.

A lot of divers master their buoyancy skills the long and hard way, wasting valuable dive time. After all of that they're probably dragging around too much weight and using up more air than is required trying to control their buoyancy; again cutting down their underwater time!

Don’t let your buoyancy control you - save time with ease and master your buoyancy once and for all!

… How much weight can you lose in a day?

 

 

Duration Cost Previous Experience/ Notes Dates
1 Day £75

Minimum age – 10 years old.

Be certified as a PADI Open Water or Junior Open Water Diver, or have a qualifying certification from another training organisation.

Review, complete and sign all PADI documents prior to in-water training.

Courses are available on demand throughout the year to suit your time schedule. Contact us to arrange a date.
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PADI Oxygen Provider Speciality
Course Code NDAC-PADI-OP

Oxygen Provider Course
The PADI Oxygen First Aid Speciality will teach you how to safely administer emergency oxygen to a person suffering a suspected pressure related injury such as decompression sickness or lung over-expansion injury.

As this is a non-diving certification, anyone can learn these life saving skills. This includes anyone in contact with divers; such as boat crew, non-diving buddies, lifeguards and shore staff.

Add this course with the Emergency First Responder Primary Care (CPR) and Secondary Care (First Aid) course for a package discount. Contact us for more details.

 

 

Duration Cost Previous Experience/ Notes Dates
1 Day

£65

Combine with EFR for a package discount. Contact us for further details.

No previous experience required.

There is no minimum age for this course.

Courses are available on demand throughout the year to suit your time schedule. Contact us to arrange a date.
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PADI Cavern Diver Speciality
Course Code NDAC-PADI-CD

PADI Cavern Diver Course
Looking for a new dive challenge, something new and exciting? Then cavern diving could be what you’ve been looking for!

If you dive within the light zone of a cave, the area near the cave entrance where natural light is always visible, you're cavern diving.

If you want to explore secrets hidden in the underwater labyrinths around the world you'll want your PADI Cavern Diver certification.

During this course you will learn to use the equipment and procedures that allow you to explore such areas safely.

This is a challenging and very exciting course!

 

Duration Cost Previous Experience/ Notes Dates
2/3 Days Please contact us for details.

Minimum age – 18 years old.

Be certified as a PADI Advanced Open water diver, or have a qualifying certification from another training organisation.

Review, complete and sign all PADI documents prior to in-water training.

 

Courses are available on demand throughout the year to suit your time schedule. Contact us to arrange a date.
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