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DV Diving

Dive Centre Center (English)

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Company description DV Diving is a PADI Five Star Dive Centre, TDI Facility, RYA Training Centre and HSE recognised scuba assessment centre based at Strangford Lough, County Down, Northern Ireland.
DV Diving offer one of Europe`s most comprehensive ranges of scuba, technical and commercial diving and powerboat training courses - for the complete beginner through to instructor development for the most experienced professionals.
Many visiting divers return each year attracted by the clear waters around County Down and the great diversity of dive sites. There are intact wrecks to explore, spectacular drop offs and exhilarating drift dives. All abilities can be catered for, choosing from the shelter of Strangford Lough with its wealth of marine life species in an unspoilt environment, to the more challenging, wreck strewn Irish Sea.
DV Diving is a registered IDEST Test House, registration number 4L. IDEST, Inspectorate for Diving Equipment Servicing and Testing was set up in 1985 with a view to providing an independent assessment for Test Houses. IDEST monitor and inspect equipment, personnel, documentation and records to ensure that work is carried out in accordance with the appropriate British / European standard.
DV Diving is currently the only IDEST accredited Test House in Northern Ireland.
To extend the life of your equipment and to reduce the chance of diving accidents due to its failure, it is vital that your dive gear be in good condition for every dive. Whether it`s a repair you need, an equipment upgrade or just a routine service, the fully qualified and experienced staff at DV Diving can meet your needs.
If you are one of those people who have always wanted to try scuba diving but have never quite got round to it, then this is for you. Try scuba diving for the first time in the safe and reassuring environment of the swimming pool. Go on - take the plunge and try it now!
Discover scuba is a one evening session during which you will be introduced to scuba equipment, listen to a safety briefing and be allowed to try diving in the swimming pool under the direct supervision of an experienced professional instructor. At the start of the session you will be required to fill out some paper work. Part of this is a medical questionnaire.
The sessions are usually held in Ards Leisure Centre on Wednesday evenings at 8.30pm and in Bangor Leisure Centre on Saturday mornings as required. You must book in advance. Please do not just turn up as there will be no equipment for you!
Location description: Diving Loactions:
Belfast Lough
Due to the long tradition of shipping in the Lough it is not surprising that its bed is carpeted with wrecks. It has been referred to as the Scapa Flow of Northern Ireland, with wrecks of all shapes and sizes spanning the last one hundred years. Wreck divers may be interested to learn that the bell from the Tiberia, a major liner, was located only a few years ago.
The visibility in Belfast Lough ranges from 3-10m. Some 20 wrecks can be dived in Belfast Lough. These wreck dives vary in difficulty, with something for all abilities. Dive depths are from 10m to over 60m.
For divers keen to look for new wrecks there are some four hundred named wrecks off the Northern Ireland coast, many of these in the Irish Sea.
Strangford Lough
Strangford is the largest sea inlet in the British Isles with a meandering shoreline of 15O miles. This gigantic inland sea, has about 120 small islands and is surrounded almost entirely by land. This means there is an enormous diversity of easily accessible diving sites. Quite simply, Strangford Lough is unique, a marine biologist`s paradise. Strangford boasts some 15 divable wrecks.
The Lough is connected to the sea by a long narrows where the sea is usually flat and calm. This belies the fierce currents of up to 8 knots and depths of 80 metres which can make this as adventurous a dive as anyone could wish for. Sheer cliffs are covered by luxurious growths of dead men’s fingers and big sponges which, even at slack water, makes the dive exciting.
The appeal of the Lough to marine biologists is its very wide range of seabed conditions, influenced by water movements and the enormous diversity of species which are found.
The life on the seabed and around the many wrecks is varied and prolific with urchins, anemones, sea squirts, scallops, crabs, prawns and even octopus. The scampi prawn is common in the Lough and can often be seen on the mud or outside its burrows.
There is one species of large sponge which was described to science from specimens collected in Strangford. Undoubtedly though, one of the richest marine life communities is based around the big horse mussels. Its colonies provide a stable attachment for many other species including scallops. Many people believe these beds to have been in place undamaged for hundreds of years.
The variety of marine life and good visibility, 4-l0 m plus, make Strangford Lough an excellent site for underwater photography.

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Find information on recreational and technical instruction, course schedules and dive locations, holiday excursions, and contact details.

Contact information:

Phone: 028 9146 4671
Fax: 028 9186 1686
Street Address:
138 Mount Stewart Road
Newtownards
Northern Ireland
United Kingdom
BT22 2ES
Spoken language(s): English
Open: from 09-00 till 17-00
Local time:  Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) London, Edinbourg, Lisboa
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