17/05/2026
A very busy and hugely rewarding weekend at Vobster Quay Inland Diving Centre running PADI Advanced Open Water, Drysuit, Navigation and Enriched Air Nitrox courses 🎉😎🤿
Matt, Gary and Sam all flew through the advanced course completing Deep, Navigation, Drysuit, Peak Performance Buoyancy, Wreck and SMB dives. They are all now qualified to dive to 30m and take with them a huge amount of knowledge and skills collected during the course👍👍👍
Lokes, Dan and Paul made 3 dives to complete their Navigation Specialty. They all showed a great understanding of compass work and bearings and successfully guided us around the lake showing off their newfound skills 🤩🤩🤩
Tom and Hannah travelled all the way from Aberystwyth to become the first people to complete 2 Scuba Blue courses in one day 😳😳.
During the morning session they completed their drysuit certification having only ever experienced warm water diving before. They both loved the drysuit experience and looked totally at home in slightly chillier waters than they are used to😂😂
We then made use of the fabulous new classroom at Vobster to deliver the Enriched Air/ Nitrox certification to both of them, whilst enjoying delicious coffee and jacket spuds from the food wagon … congratulations guys and we look forward to seeing you again for more UK diving 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
It was lovely to see Meg complete her drysuit course on Saturday, she has worked really hard and, as someone who really feels the cold, we hope this will lead to more UK🇬🇧 diving… Well done Meg 🤿👍
It was also lovely to see Scuba Blue club members joining us over the weekend 😊
On Saturday, Avril and Jodie formed a brand new buddy pairing and completed 2 independent dives… hopefully this is the start of a lovely new pairing up of divers😊🤿
We were also joined on Saturday by Steve and Darren who jumped in to enjoy the lake … sorry for the lack of a photo boys.
Finally, this morning Gary paired up with one of our newer divers, Hannah, to help her build her dive experience and confidence. They completed 3 lengthy dives, at depth, despite the fact that Hannah was in a wetsuit 🥶🥶This shows great enthusiasm and love of diving… bet you can’t wait for your drysuit to arrive back from being repaired at O'Three Ltd though Hannah 😂
Well done to you all, it is fabulous to see the UK dive scene thriving and long may it last 😎🤿😎
Finally, thanks to all at Vobster and to all the Scuba Blue Pro Team for delivering such a fabulous weekend 🙏🙏😎🤿