Diving Adventures Scotland

Let meet Charlie and Brian who have both made remarkable achievements over the past 3 weekends.

Both doing separate courses, having waited an age to take part. Liaising diary’s has been a bit of a challenge up until recently.

Charlie took part in the Padi Open Water Course on a 1:1 tuition. We can accommodate 1:1 tuition for students, it is a tad more expensive though than our standard rates.

Equally, Brian took part in the Padi Drysuit Speciality Course, again it was a 1:1 course.

Both had a fantastic experience with both diving in cold water for the first time, and, Charlie diving for the first time.

Jumping back to Brian for a minute.

Having completed his Open Water Course in Greece about a year ago, he had been taught well. It was evident during his Drysuit course that you could tell this. He’s less than 10 Open Water dives under his belt, yet, his Drysuit buoyancy skills were on a level of (Instructor Demonstration) quality. He really listens to the briefings and nailed everything pretty much perfectly. It was a real pleasure meeting and diving with Brian and I’m sure we will see each other again in the not to distan future.

Congrats Brian you totally rocked it 🤙🏼😎

What about Charlie?

Well, Charlie made super progress of the duration of his course. He started of the hard way by jumping straight into the Drysuit and colder water, rather, than the gentle introduction that the pool has to offer, so, in at the deep end right from the off.

The start was a bit tricky for Charlie, however, that’s to be expected when your trying something new for the first time that’s taking you outside your comfort zone. By the end of the course, Charlie was diving like it was 2nd nature having masters the Drysuit along his journey.

Charlie, well done buddy on your remarkable achievement in gaining your Padi Open Water Diver qualification. You certainly earned it.

What’s also quite appealing to both Brian and Charlie. They both have the skills and knowledge to dive the colder waters the northern hemisphere has to offer.

Now that cool 😎

As always peeps, Stay Safe! Plan the Dive and Dive the Plan 😉

Chris

Diving Medicals…

A question I get asked about quite often.

We’ve received some news from Dr Sarah Zacheshigriva that I would like to share with you all. It’s wonderful news.

Hi Chris
I'm just writing to you with an update. Dr Graham Russell has now retired both from being a GP and doing the diver medicals. The UKDMC have made me his replacement. So, I can now do the HSE medicals and the recreational medicals. Spread the word! I'll be doing these in my free time between doing the NHS work, so good to let people know to try and arrange these in advance, as short notice may not always be possible.
See you soon and safe diving!
Sarah

Isn’t that fantastic news 😎

Sarah’s website and booking system can be found at the below link.

http://www.scottishmedicals.co.uk/

We wish Dr Russell a happy retirement whilst thanking Sarah for filling his boots. The costs for non HSE medicals remain the same at £50 for a 30 minute consultation. HSE medical prices are visible on Sarah’s website.

Scottish Medicals | HSE Diver Medicals in Scotland | Dollar, Scotland, UK Scottish Medicals, based in Central Scotland, provides fitness to work medicals for divers by a HSE Approved Medical Examiner of Divers (AMED). All working divers require a valid certificate of fitness to dive, as per the Diving at Work Regulations 1997.

A nice wee day out at BP Finnart today for a couple of dives with my good Friend Stuart and, new AOW diver Pamela.

Stuart’s been busy working abroad during the pandemic “ironically on ships”, yet, never found time to dive. So a nice wee 20m 40 minute dive was a great way to get back into things.

You’ll remember Pamela, Paul and Sienna who completed there Padi Open Water Course with us late last year. They all disappeared to Mauritius shortly afterwards where Pamela and Paul completed their AOW course and Sienna enjoyed some fantastic diving.

Pamela joined us today for a fun dive out at Finnart. There was a group from Leeds on site doing training dives and decided to call it a day after finding current. One of the divers reported current running at 6 knots on the ebb after slack beyond 20M depth. Pamela and I decided to keep the dive under 10m and found no current. We had a nice wee dive, learned a lot, and, will be back shortly with Pamela and Paul when there new Drysuits arrive late this month.

Remember peeps, plan the dive and dive the plan.

And…

No laughing at my new glasses 🤣🤣🤣

Stay safe