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Reasons to dive with Scapa Scuba:

All PADI courses are taught in small groups. This direct instructor supervision makes the whole experience personal to your needs.
Unlike most dive schools, Scapa Scuba teaches the in-water sessions in the sea for the duration of all courses. Tedious swimming pool training can often give students false confidence. Dive in dry suits in the sea from the start and your transition from confined to open water diving is minimised.
The great location of Scapa Scuba allows for wreck diving during all dives.
Academic sessions are taught in our classroom - less than 15 metres from the confined water training site!
Young, friendly and professional staff, each committed to doing a job they love.
Scapa Scuba has it own on site ASSETT technician, ensuring all dive school equipment is well maintained.
Students have both trust and assurance in Scapa Scuba due to the thorough teaching manor and upholding of PADI standards.

Scapa Scuba offers the full range of PADI 'core' courses:

'try a dive' TODAY! - Dive for the first time ever on a Blockship wreck at the Churchill Barriers which were sunk between 1915 and 1940 to protect the British Naval Fleet in Scapa Flow. This half-day course is available to everyone who has never dived before.

Open Water Diver - This is a 4 day course, which upon successful completion you will be a certified diver PADI Open Water Diver and able to dive to a maximum depth of 18m with a buddy independently of an instructor.

Advanced Open Water diver - The Advanced Open Water course is a 5 dive course and can be run over either 2 or 3 days, depending on your previous experience. If you are comfortable in dry suit diving, it is possible to complete the course over 2 days. If you have no previous dry suit experience the course is run over 3 days.

Rescue Diver - Although exhilarating and addictive, scuba diving is a potentially dangerous sport. Up until now all your diver training has focused on your individual safety, however during the PADI Rescue Diver course you will focus on other divers safety as well as your own.

Emergency First Response - This is a medically based assistance course enabling students to follow, at the layman's level, the same emergency procedures and priorities used by paramedics and doctors.

Divemaster - The Divemaster course is designed to develop your leadership abilities by expanding your knowledge, judgement and skills to a higher and professional level.

Scapa Scuba is looking for Divemaster Trainee’s for this 2010 summer season. The position is for 8-12 weeks between May and the end of October. Ideally, the suitable candidate(s) will be certified as PADI Rescue Diver but we would consider an experienced PADI Advanced diver.

We are offering internship training with a Divemaster certification at the end of your time with us. There will be no charge for the Divemaster Internship course, or indeed for any other training we can provide for you - e.g. speciality courses, nitrox training etc. The only training expense to you would be materials [sold at cost and PADI certification. Alongside the dive centre we also run a dry suit manufacture and repair business and full equipment servicing which we would happily give you an insight into.

Candidates must understand that they will be working with Scapa Scuba in return for their Divemaster certification course, and that some days there will be no diving, instead surface cover on the shore or boat.

Please email any questions on this Divemaster Internship to diving@scapascuba.co.uk

In addition Scapa Scuba runs several one and two day Speciality courses:

All the diving in Orkney is done in dry suits, but if you have never dived in a dry suit before please don't be put off! With excellent advice and tuition from the staff at Scapa Scuba, you can master the art of dry suit diving in no time! With safety in mind, one of Scapa Scuba's policies is not to take inexperienced dry suit divers into the Scapa Flow until they have completed the dry suit speciality course at the Churchill Barriers.