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PADI Bubblemaker Course

The PADI Bubblemaker course offers children an introduction to the thrill of scuba diving. The Bubblemaker course begins with a briefing that explains the effects of pressure on physiology and introduces them to key hand signals and safety drills and procedures.

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Course details:

Time is taken to cover familiarisation with the scuba diving equipment.

You will then enter the water at the shallow end of the swimming pool, and in the company of a highly qualified instructor, you will experience your first dive.

The course comprises a briefing and a few safety drills and the most important ingredient, fun! The PADI Bubblemaker course is open to children 8 years and older. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Before enrolling on the course you should check this medical questionnairre

  • Meet your Big Squid PADI instructor
  • Complete a Bubblemaker safety review
  • Learn how to assemble dive equipment
  • Don your equipment in shallow water
  • Learn some signals and safety drills
  • Take your first breaths from a regulator
  • Descend under water
  • Experience weightlessness
  • Become neutrally buoyant
  • Underwater Somersault
  • Recover a lost regulator
  • Discover What to do if water gets in your mask
  • Swim like a fish
  • The swimming pools that we use are modern clean heated pools and we have the whole pool for our use.
  • The ratios are small, with no more than 2 children with 1 instructor.
  • You will need to bring your swimming costume and a towel.

Includes:

  • Full equipment provided.
  • Leisure centre entry fee.
  • Maximum of 2 students with one instructor.

Cost:

£165.00  this includes the use of all equipment

Duration: 

1 evening

Location:

Dulwich College Sports Club  and  Clapham Leisure Centre .

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