Posts Tagged ‘Scuba Diving’

Cromhall Diving underwater attractions find new home at NDAC

Sadly, as many of you will know, the Cromhall Quarry Diving Centre closed during 2020. It has been a real loss to the diving and open water swimming communities.

Simon and Maggie, who many of you will know from Cromhall Diving, kindly donated the National Diving & Activity Centre some of their items that we will be using as underwater diving attractions.

Simon visited us recently to hand over the items, and as a small token of our appreciation we plan to paint up the MK XV11 Sea Mine and name it after him.

The new items will be given a good home at the National Diving & Activity Centre. We hope they will provide interesting attractions to dive as a small legacy to the Cromhall centre, Simon and Maggie.

Tags: Cromhall, Cromhall Diving, Cromhall Quarry, Inland Scuba, MK XV11 Mine, MK XV11 Sea Mine, quarry, Scuba Diving, Sea Mine, underwater attractions
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New pontoon sections installed at the NDAC

In the last few weeks we have taken delivery at the National Diving & Activity Centre of some new pontoon sections from Southampton.

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Tags: inland diving, Lake, pontoon, quarry, Scuba Diving
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Online Booking System for Scuba Divers at NDAC

We are excited to announce that we’ve introduced a new online booking system for Scuba Divers visiting the National Diving & Activity Centre (NDAC).

The booking system is part of our post-Covid 19 procedures to make the NDAC cashless, and brings Scuba Diving inline with our other online booking systems.

Scuba Diving spaces can be booked now for Saturdays and Sundays from Saturday 31st October onwards.

We will use the system to carefully manage the numbers on the site and it will not be possible to enter the site without a booking.

DATES AVAILABLE NOW!
Book your Scuba Diving Entry online »

As part of the booking process, our Diving Declaration forms can also now be completed online.

We look forward to seeing you back in the water soon! If you have any specific questions or concerns please get in touch.

Tags: Booking, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Online Booking, payment, Scuba Diving
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SUUNTO Dive Computers and Finnsub Torches at NDAC Night Dive

We’re pleased to announce that for our last Night Dive before the Summer season, SUUNTO Diving UK will be joining us with a selection of their fantastic Finnsub Torches & Dive Computers. (more…)

Tags: chepstow, Dive Computer, Dive Torch, EON Core, Eon Steel, Finnsub, inland diving, Inland Scuba, ndac, night dive, Scuba Diving, Suunto, Suunto D5
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Infrastructure Works & Slipway Improvements

We have been carrying out some infrastructure works at the National Diving & Activity Centre.

Twenty tonnes of concrete has been laid to extend the lake’s slipway and improve access to and from the water.

We request that visitors keep out of the coned areas until the concrete has dried fully.

We hope this improvement will help our divers access and egress the water a little more easily. Watch this space for further improvements.

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Tags: concrete, infrastructure, inland diving, Lake, quarry, Scuba, Scuba Diving, site improvements, slipway, sub aqua diving
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Karl Kruger at the Rebreather Reunion April 2019

We are pleased to announce our third guest speaker at Rebreather Reunion 2019 will be Karl Kruger

Karl Kruger had a military diving and technical diving career spanning three decades. Karl now runs his own dive school providing recreational and technical dive training with multiple training agencies.

Karl’s talk will be on the technical diving expeditions of South Africa – Submarines, Coelacanths & the Ghost Fleet Expeditions.

The Rebreather Reunion is a two day social gathering for like minded divers from all backgrounds and levels of diving experience.

Join us for a weekend of diving and socialising as well as live talks & presentations from our guest speakers.

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Tags: Bay Divers, baydivers, CCR, Diving Expedition, guest speaker, Karl Kruger, military diving, Rebreather, Rebreather Diving, Rebreather Reunion, Rebreather Weekend, Scuba, Scuba Diving, South Africa Scuba Diving, Technical Diving
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New underwater scuba diving attraction at NDAC Chepstow

This week we have been lowering our new scuba diving attraction into place at the National Diving & Activity Centre.

The Hyperbaric Chamber was lowered using a 5 tonne lift bag and a lot of assistance.

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Tags: Chamber, ddrc, DDRC Healthcare, Diving, Diving Diseases Research Centre, Diving Lake, Diving Quarry, Easter, Hyperbaric, Hyperbaric Chamber, inland diving, Inland Scuba, Scuba, Scuba Diving, Underwater Attraction, wreck diving
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Site improvement works at the NDAC

Visitors over the last couple of weeks may have seen the infrastructure works being carried out throughout the site.

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Tags: car park, Car Parking, concrete, Feedback, infrastructure, Infrastructure Works, National Diving & Activity Centre, ndac, NDAC Lake, NDAC Quarry, parking, pontoon, Potholes, Scuba, Scuba Diving, site improvements, site works
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New underwater attraction arrives at the NDAC

A new Scuba Diving attraction was delivered to the National Diving & Activity Centre today.

The Hyperbaric Chamber has retired from its previous life at DDRC Healthcare and will be placed at 20-30m as an underwater diving attraction.

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Tags: chepstow, ddrc, DDRC Healthcare, decompression, Dive Attractions, Dive Chamber, Hyperbaric Chamber, inland diving, ndac, Scuba, Scuba Diving, Scuba News, underwater
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Deadly Dinosaurs and Steve Backshall in Chepstow!

CBBC’s Steve Backshall was recently at the National Diving & Activity Centre in Chepstow, filming for his BBC show Deadly Dinosaurs.

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Tags: Backshall, BAFTA, BBC, BBC IPlayer, CBBC, Deadly Dinosaurs, dinosaur, Dinosaurs, Helicopter, Jurassic, Jurassic Sea, marine reptile, Predator X, Scuba, Scuba Diving, Steve Backshall, television presenter, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Wessex Helicopter, Wessex Mk5, Wessex Mk5 Helicopter
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