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Big Squid

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Company description London scuba diving School Big Squid welcomes you! Whether you wish to learn scuba diving, continue your scuba diving education, wish to dive with sharks. explore wrecks or make new diving friends - London scuba diving school Big Squid provide padi scuba courses, scuba travel and an active london based diving club. We offer PADI scuba diving courses in Clapham and Battersea, South London, for beginners and experienced divers alike.
London diving club Big Squid is informal. There are no membership fees, but there are plenty of social activities and gatherings not all to do with diving. The club is not elitist and not cliquey and you will be made to feel welcome. You don`t need to be an experienced diver in fact beginners are welcome, It doesn`t matter which training agency you learnt with, PADI , BSAC, NAUI and others are all welcome, it doesn`t matter if you trained with another school.
Club Social events are organized by our social squid Sally. Sally regularly organizes, barbecues, paintball ,picnics, ice skating, tapas nights , shisha nights ,dog racing visits, Instructor Kevin Beurle organizes Clay Pigeon shooting trips. There will be the opportunity to buy and sell second hand diving club gear or advertise non-related diving issues.
Our courses are:
*Dry Suit
The Padi dry suit course comprises an orientation session in a heated swimming pool and two open water dives which take place over one day. At the end of the course you will receive a dry suit specialty certification card and will be able to do the following:
Don and Doff a dry suit with the aid of another diver
Perform a buoyancy check whilst wearing a dry suit
Perform a controlled descent without the aid of a descent line
Achieve neutral buoyancy by hovering for at least 30 seconds whilst on or near the bottom
Demostate the ability to recover your position when air is in the boots and you are upside down
Demonstrate an ascent from the bottom at a rate of no faster than 18 meters a minute
Remove and replace scuba unit and weight belt at the surface
Disconnect and reconnect low pressure inflator hose underwater
To qualify as a drysuit diver you should be at least 12 years old and possess a PADI Open Water diver certification or junior open water diver certification.
*Nitrox course
After completing the Nirtox course you will receive a PADI enriched air diver certification card allowing you to obtain and use enriched air world-wide. The Enriched Air Nitrox Diver course comprises two open water dives and a knowledge development section with a multiple choice exam at the end. By the end of the course you will be qualified to:
Decide the optimum gas blend for the depth you are diving to increase your no-stop limits
Obtain and analyse enriched air with a 22-40% oxygen content.
Calculate your oxygen exposure and repetitive pressure groups
Understand the theoretical and operational considerations for enriched air diving
To qualify as an Enriched Air Nitrox Diver you must be at least 15 years old and possess a PADI Open Water diver certification or equivalent
This course is completed over 1 day. Locations for this course include Portland, Stoney Cove, Wraysbury, and the Red Sea or at another Big Squid overseas destination.
For further information you can contact us or visit our website.
Location description: Some of available dive trips:
Portland
We usually dive around Portland Harbor or in Balaclava Bay. With 4-5 dives over two days offering:
haunted wrecks like The Dredger, the Spaniard and the Countess of Erne.
St Abbs
The sleepy fishing village of St Abbs Located in the beautiful Scottish borders. The St Abbs and Eyemouth Voluntary Marine Reserve contains relatively deep water close inshore and strong tidal movement which combine to provide some of the easiest and best shore diving in Britain
A big attraction is Cathedral Rock with its unique double archway which is a ``must see`` for any visiting diver. Big Green Carr.. Here you will find lots of beautiful walls, hopefully the resident wolf fish and on the seaward side, a sharply undercut wall full of holes and cracks known as the Amphitheatre. This is likely to be occupied by squat and common lobsters, velvet fiddler crabs, Yarrell`s blennies and occasionally, the elusive tadpole fish.
A beautiful and very easy dive. Seagull Rock has good vertical walls but these lead down largely to sand at about 12m. This is probably the most sheltered site in the area and this, combined with the reflective quality of the sand, means that the very best visibility can usually be found here. At the rear of Seagull Rock is a huge crack probably 4m wide, running from the surface to the sea bed.
BIG SQUID Pembrokeshire
The Pembrokeshire coast is Britain`s first and only coastal national park. Beneath the surrounding sea and around the scattered rocky inlets the outstanding natural beauty extends onwards, although hidden to most visitors to the area.
There are many seals in the area which may visit you while you wait for the boat to pick you up. If you tempt them by swimming away they may even come and play! Other sea life you may encounter include lesser spotted dog fish, octopus, conger eel, greater pipe fish , dolphins, porpoises, sea horse, trigger fish and even sunfish occasionally visit the coast.
The water is warmed by the gulf stream and visibility is usually excellent!!
Oban
The towering mountains of the lands of Lorn sweep down to the coast at Oban - unofficial capital of the West Highlands and `Gateway to the Isles`. A short ferry ride away lies the magnificent holiday Island of Mull and beyond, remote Hebridean Island gems, precious stone set in a silver sea.
Winding streets overlooking a picturesque bay, busy with the movement of fishing boats, yachts and ferries. For many Oban is the perfect West Highland retreat, a place to relax and unwind yet with plenty to see, do and discover.
and many others.
Contact information:

Phone: 020 7733 6966
Street Address:
72 Hubert Grove
Clapham
London
United Kingdom
SW9 9PD
Spoken language(s): English
Open: from 09-00 till 17-00
Local time:  Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) London, Edinbourg, Lisboa

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