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Iles World of Diving

Dive Centre Center (English)

Service:
  • Air
  • Dive Shops
  • Equipment Gear Rentals
  • Gear Equipment Servicing
  • NITROX
  • PADI
  • School Course Learn to Dive
  • Underwater Photography/Video
  • Underwater Publications Prints
  • Wreck Diving
Company description Situated on Shoreham Beach in West Sussex, Iles World of Diving is a PADI 5 star IDC scuba diving centre and Royal Yachting Association Powerboat training centre. Established in June 1997 we are a family-run business owned by husband-and-wife partnership Tony & Sarah Iles.
All PADI scuba diving courses from beginner to instructor level.
Small class groups to ensure more personalised tuition.
Male & female instructors.
Purpose built on-site classroom with full multimedia facilities.
Full compliment of top-quality school equipment, which is sold off regularly and replaced with new - ensuring our students always have modern, good condition equipment.
Snorkelling lessons & advice.
RYA Powerboat Handling courses.
RYA VHF Radio SRC courses.
Comprehensively stocked diving, snorkelling & swimming retail. We offer friendly, unbiased, knowledgeable advice with no hard sell!
On site equipment servicing & repairs.
7 metre fully DOT licensed RIB.
Dive club with regular dives from Shoreham using our 7 metre RIB.
Gift vouchers for birthdays & Christmas.
Scuba diving - fun, relaxing, and a privileged opportunity to visit the underwater world. Whether you fancy floating weightless over a tropical reef, or exploring the historical wrecks in the English Channel, the PADI Open Water Diver Course is the first step to experience this world. PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors) is the largest system of diver education in the world and is a fast, comprehensive way of learning, with PADI qualifications recognised all over the world.
Our Team:
TONY ILES
PADI Master Instructor
Tony is a PADI Master Instructor who started diving in 1983 and started teaching in 1988, initially for his local Sub Aqua Association club. After moving up the ranks in SAA he decided to swap to Brighton BSAC and then to PADI in 1993. Previously employed at Blue Smartie Diving in Shoreham, he decided to set up Iles World of Diving in 1997 with a friend, who later left. He met Sarah that same year, and went into business partnership. Prior to teaching professionally Tony was a youth worker for some years where he indulged his passion of canoeing, a qualified motor mechanic, a building site agent & a commercial diver/skipper working on M.S. Manly in the Channel. He is also a RYA Powerboat Instructor, teaching to Advanced level, RYA VHF Radio Instructor & Emergency First Response Instructor.
Tony has now handed over all of the diving tuition to Sarah and concentrates on his role as centre equipment servicing technician, skippering the RIB and teaching RYA Powerboat & VHF courses & First Aid courses.
SARAH ILES
PADI Master Instructor
After spending much of her childhood going around wearing a mask & snorkel (usually whilst riding a bicycle), Sarah fulfilled her childhood dream by learning to dive in 1995 whilst on holiday in the Cayman Islands! After meeting Tony in 1997, she went into partnership with him in 1998, taking on the role of centre & administration manager. Nowadays Sarah is a PADI Master Instructor & Emergency First Response Instructor and is in charge of all diver training. She also services diving equipment alongside Tony.
Sarah has a keen interest in underwater photography, with many of the photos on this site taken by her. Marine life conservation & diving medicine are among her main interests.
Prior to her partnership with Tony, Sarah worked as a qualified veterinary nurse acting as head nurse at a busy practice in Brighton.
also
MARION MACKENZIE
Centre co-ordinator/accounts manager
MEL BALL
Centre & shop assistant
PEPE the PARROT
General squawker
GARY STEVENSON
PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer
GRAEME PACE
PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer
ANDREW FRIEND
PADI Assistant Instructor
DANNY ASLAN
PADI Assistant Instructor
SUE BULL
PADI Assistant Instructor
DAVID HAYLER-MONTAGUE
PADI Assistant Instructor
RICHARD WARD
PADI Assistant Instructor 637064
Location description: The diving off the coast of Shoreham is rich and varied with a vast array of wreck sites and reef/rocky areas to visit. Fish & crustacean life is prolific, with a list of some of the species you may see later on this page. The following descriptions are just a few of the popular sites we visit regularly and their history, where known.
SILO REEF (also known as the inner/outer Jenny Grounds). This site is a patch of reef where the sea bottom consists of large rocky areas and even some small cave-like gaps. With a maximum depth of 10-12 metres at high tide, you could spend hours looking around the reef. Species seen include cod in winter, the usual huge shoals of bib, whiting, poor cod, ballan wrasse, cuckoo wrasse and pollack. This area is quite heavily potted so the lobsters seen are usually snared in pots, but you might be lucky to see a few hiding under the various crevices. Edible crabs are often present also hiding under crevices, and there are usually some velvet-swimming crabs around. The name Jenny Grounds originates from all the mussel beds in the area which are everywhere. Further along towards Brighton way, there is a very old wreck of a dredger, though there is not much left now.
THE LEDGES (also know as SouthWest Rocks and Looe Gate). This site stretches in a northeast to southwest direction from Brighton`s Palace Pier outwards and continues on out about 3 miles to form College Rocks. The best patches to dive are Looe Gate near to Brighton Pier and a bit further out at SouthWest Rocks. The rocks themselves rise up to form a ledge about 2 metres high in places and provide large crevices for fish to hide and swim. This makes an ideal drift dive as you can shelter from the current quite well and stay next to the ledge. Fish seen include flatfish (if you`re lucky), bib, wrasse, triggerfish in the summer, bass (if you`re really lucky) and crabs. Fanworms are very prevalent along the entire wall and cuttlefish spawn here in early summer. Both the SouthWest Rocks & Looe Gate sites are designated Marine Sites of Nature Conservation Importance, due to their geological & marine life interest.
STEAM TRAWLER WRECK Situated about 5 miles off Shoreham, this wreck has no known history except that it was a trawler. Still in quite ship-shape condition until recently, the starboard side is now falling in to itself and the bow has sunk into the sand and turned with the nose pointing upwards. It was possible to penetrate this wreck but now it is in too much of a dangerous condition. The bottom composition around the trawler is easily disturbed so good buoyancy is essential. However there are times when the visibility is exceptional, and this makes an excellent dive in these conditions. Life seen include the usual large shoals of bib, lobsters, crabs & flatfish. This wreck is rarely fished due to its small size so life is usually prolific.

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Scuba diving centre based in West Sussex. Offering PADI courses from beginner to Instructor. Retail outlet.

Contact information:

Phone: 01273 463291
Fax: 01273 440690
Street Address:
17 Ferry Road, Shoreham Beach
Shoreham-by-sea
England
United Kingdom
BN43 5RA
Spoken language(s): English
Open: from 09-00 till 17-00
Local time:  Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) London, Edinbourg, Lisboa
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