We have a wealth of experience teaching children and young adults, both privately and through group activities.  In the past we have offered experiences and courses through Edinburgh Council, Edinburgh Community Education, Cargilfield School, Stewart Melville College, Mary Erskine School, Fettes College, Fairbridge and others.

Currently, we're helping a group of Portobello High School students become PADI seals.

All staff who teach children are Disclosure Scotland vetted.

We have scuba equipment in children's sizes, to ensure that young divers are comfortable.

Please note that to take part in any PADI diver experience programme or course your child must be medically fit to participate. Please ask for the form relevant to the experience or course which your child will participate in.

Children's experience programmes

Bubblemaker

If you are 8 or 9 years old you will complete the bubblemaker as your first experience of scuba.  This session is a fun play around, using full scuba equipment, in the safety of the swimmng pool.

You will meet with your instructor, complete a short breifing and enter the water to start your adventure.  Once you have mastered the basics, in the shallow end, you venture into the deep end to play with frizbees, torpeedos and other pool toys.

Discover Scuba

Much like the bubblemaker but for children (and adults) aged 10 and over.

These experiences can be conducted at the same time to allow a family group to complete their first scuba experience together.

Children's courses

You have already taken your first breaths underwater and become a diver! Would you like to take more breaths underwater? You can learn new skills and have lots more fun underwater.

Seal Team

To become a Seal Team member you must complete the first 5 of 15 Aquamissions.  You will answer challenging questions in your own Seal Tam logbook and comeplete skills and games, in the swimming pool, with your instrcuctor to earn your aquamission decal.

Completing the Seal Team programme is equivalent to completing confined open water dive of the Junior Open Water course meaning that you are part way towards having the skills needed to dive in open water.

This is a structured prgramme that lets children develop skills and learn about the aquatic realm in a safe, fun and non competative environment.

Minimum age 8.

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Blue Team                                                   Red Team

The seals learnt lots of new dive skills like fin pivots and hovers and practiced their new buoyancy skills on the underwater obstacle course.

Master Seal Team

To take your  Seal Team experience further you can complete 10 speciality aquamissions, which are interesting and exciting. These speciality aquamissions develop further skills and teach you how to do really cool things underwater like take photographs. All of the speciality aquamissions are listed in your Seal Team logbook.  On completion of these aquamissions you will become a Master Seal.

As with the Seal Team course this Master Seal Team course is completed in the swimming pool. The Seal Team course is a pre-requisite to the Master Seal Team Course.

Minimum age 8.

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The Seals completed 10 speciality aquamissions, practicing existing skills and developing new ones.

They learnt how to use underwater cameras, during the snapshot dive, with some great results.

 Using a calibrated dive reel they learnt how to control the

reel to accurately measure and map a model of a

shipwreck.

Each Seal can now find their way using an underwater compass and we saw some impressive navigating and distance measuring, during the navigation dive.

                     

From the Seal Team course everyone had outstanding buoyancy skills, which they further developed, during their innerspace dive.

During the search and recovery dive the Seals

learnt how to search for items underwater and how to safely lift these objects to the surface.

Using these skills they collected various items during the environmental dive, as they would on an underwater clean up.

The Seals are now able to assist themselves and others both before and during a dive.

During the Creature ID dive they learnt about UK marine life and learnt some underwater hand signals for various creatures.

Wearing mask covers we simulated a night dive and the Seals found their way with underwater torches.

Finally, during the skin dive the Seals learnt how to snorkel effectively and duck dive to retrieve objects.

Congratulations new Master Seals! Use your photo album link to see all of the photos we took during your course.

Junior Open Water Diver

The foundation for all levels of diver training, the Open Water Course is the first step to exploring the underwater world. Consisting of home study, theory, pool and open water modules the course will guide you in a fun and relaxed manner through the required skills necessary for safe diving. Upon completion you will receive a personal photo ID card - your licence, to dive to 12 metres worldwide!

This course can be completed in its entirety in Scotland or the theory and pool dives can be completed here (referral option) and the open water dives can be completed on holiday.

If needed, extra help is offered with the theory sections at no additional cost.

Minimum Age 10.

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Junior Advanced Open Water Diver

This adventurous course offers diving experiences and important practical skills in five distinct areas. To broaden your horizons these must include Deep and Navigation.  You then choose 3 other dives in areas that interest you - maybe Photo, Naturalist, Boat, Dry Suit or others. Once you complete your five Adventure Dives you will receive your personal photo ID card permitting you to dive to 21mts worldwide.

Minimum Age 12.

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Junior Speciality Diver

Speciality Programmes take you in depth into areas of specific interest.  You will complete a number of dives in the specify are of diving, to increase our practical skills and knowledge.

Speciality courses currently offered to Junior Open Water Divers include Boat Diver, Drift Diver, Dry Suit Diver, Multilevel Diver, Equipment Specialist, Aware- Fish Identification, Night Diver, Peak Performance Buoyancy, Underwater Naturalist, Underwater Photography, and Underwater Navigator.

Tthe speciality currently offered to Junior Advanced Open Water Divers is Search and Recovery diver.

Speciality courses available for both divers and non-divers are; Project Aware and Aware - Coral Reef Conservation.

Minimum age requirement varies with different courses.

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If you have or know of a child who you think would enjoy scuba diving please get in touch to find out about the available courses.