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Blue Hippo Diving is a PADI dive school based in South Lanarkshire.

We offer PADI training from Discover Scuba Diving to Assistant Instructor, as well as most specialties and all TecRec courses.

18/06/2026

Great evening at the PADI Members’ Forum in Grangemouth.

17/05/2026

Big congratulations to David Simpson and Jamie Smit who completed their PADI Rescue Diver Course at Carrick Castle, Loch Goil. Well done 😇😇
The weather was a mix of wet, sunny, windy and chilly. Despite the rain, we braved it all and pitched our tents 🏕️
The instructors, David, Angela, Iain and Divemaster Alana, did an excellent job. A huge thank you to the entire team!😎

Davie S also deserves a shoutout for his hard work and delicious barbecue. He really knows how to entertain & feed the troops, especially in the rain 🌧️ 🎵🥩🥂🍗🍺🍳🍩🐿️🌲

After a rainy night we woke to the smell of breakfast and there he was Davie S, cooking breakfast 🍳 absolutely fantastic. Just what we needed.

CJ and Callum were a huge help and we enjoyed catching up with Colin from Fyne Diver, a former team member. 👌

The photos tell the story perfectly – sunshine, rain, laughter, love, food, music and more.

As always, there was plenty of laughter and team building throughout the weekend. 👌
An excellent course for those who are aware of dive safety for themselves and looking out for your buddy 👌

03/05/2026

Great conditions this weekend at Loch Fyne for our PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course students, Jay Penrice, Louis Gray, Kate Campbell & David Jansch 👌
Smiles all round 😘
Good to see Thea (last year’s student) & Leo out diving today👌
Davy’s 200th dive & we enjoyed cake and JD. 💙
As always great support team, David, Alana, Davy, Angi & boss man Iain 🥳
Thanks to Aquatron for drysuits & air 😇
Fun packed weekend with loads of lol moments 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 🥳

12/04/2026

What a mixture of weather this weekend at Loch Fyne for the team.

Big congratulations to India Pell and Alex Levai completing their PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course with PADI MSDT David McClure & his strong sidekick and tea-maker ☕️ Davy Simpson 👌👌

Well done to Kate Campbell on completing her PADI Open Water Diver course with PADI Instructor Stefanos Nikolaou 👌. A delighted Kate indeed 😅
Well done Grant Ferguson for achieving his PADI Scuba Diver course 👌. A very happy Grant 😅 with PADI MI Iain McArthur 😅

The extreme conditions this weekend with strong winds, hail, heavy rain,sunshine, high waves & black skies made all achievements admirable !!!😇
Thank you to Angela Wood PADI MSDT and Alana Hughes PADI Divemaster for great efforts in keeping the team organised 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️😇👌👌
Great catching up with Kris & Allison from Our Dive School 👌

Appreciation to Aquatron for drysuits & air fills. Thanks Leo for filling our 14 cylinders so late 😇👌💯
And the sweeties 🍬 x

22/02/2026

Tulsi Wilkinson-Das, Alex Levai, Jay Penrice & Niamh Davie completed their PADI Open Water Diver certification this weekend at Loch Long in very mixed weather 🌦️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👌🏼👌🏼
Instructors, David, Stefanos, Iain & Angela, and Divemaster, Alana & team support Davey S were delighted with the students and enjoyed many good laugh out loud moments 😂😂😂

Great team work as always 🤗💙☕️

Thank you to our friends at Aquatron for drysuits and air 😇👌🏼👌🏼. And recently going above & beyond providing at short notice extra drysuits for our students 🤗 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼. X
Thank you Mem & Leo ###

11/02/2026

Big shout out to Blue Hippo Diving’s newest top fans! 💎

Allan Wood, Andy Haynes, Julien Swennen, Rod Conway, Lauren Wilson

Drop a comment to welcome them to our community, fans

10/02/2026

PADI Open Water Diver weekend 👌🏼
Congratulations to our 4 students Abbie Sorrie, India Pell, Kate Campbell & Grant Ferguson, who braved the typical Scottish elements at Loch Long with Instructors David, Iain, Angela & Stefanos with strong support from our strong & willing assistant Davey S.
Massive congratulations to our newly appointed PADI Divemaster, Alana Hughes, who has been with us a while now. Alana offers such enthusiasm for students and is an efficient team member. 💕 yipppeeee Alana 👌🏼

Conditions were rough on the Saturday and challenging for a few students. Weather a bit calmer on Sunday. Viz was 4/5 metres and water temperature 9° a few tricky waves too 🌊

Davey S did not disappoint with his wee calor gas stove and a wee cuppa tea ☕️ xx A treat when we were all shivering 🥶 😂

24/12/2025

Merry Christmas to one and all 🎅 👌👌🏽
Keep safe and keep ‘on diving ‘
Happy 2026 to past, present & future scuba divers 🤿 🎅🏻🥳

From Iain, Angela, David, Stefanos & Alana and all our strong support team 💕💙 scuba

PADI Open Water Diver course starts provisionally 18 January 2026 🤿

12/12/2025

👌👌Big congratulations to Stefanos Nikolaou on successfully. completing his PADI Open Water Scuba Diver
Instructor course. Stef will be a great asset to the team and we welcome his youth & enthusiasm 😇👌👌

We are starting a very busy scuba diving season in January/February 2026 with only a few spaces left
Well done Stef, party soon 🥳

26/08/2025

Jamie Smit enjoyed a great weekend achieving his PADI Advanced Open Water Diver certification with Instructor David McClure at Loch Long & Loch Fyne. Jamie did his initial training as a junior open water diver when he was 17 yrs old (4 yrs ago) with us and has enjoyed many dives in different countries over the years & his passion is still strong as is his diving skills. Very well done Jamie 👌🏼👌🏼
Thank you to shore & dive support Tom & Dave 👌🏼👌🏼

Address

Bothwell

Telephone

+447900892489

Website

http://www.bluehippodiving.com/

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