Winter activities to keep your hand in

New Horizons Dive Centre
23/01/2010

Equipment Speciality Sunday 24th January 2010 09:00 - 16:00

This is a great course for learning more about the equipment that lets you participate in this fantastic hobby. You will learn how the regulators actually work, how you can strip your mask down to change a damaged part, as well as how to care for and maintain all the rest of the gear we use.
This is a great course for those who have there own gear already and want to know how to look after it better as well as for those who have not yet got there own gear and want to know more about the differences.

Nitrox Speciality course Tuesday 26th January 2010 19:00 - 22:00

The Nitrox course introduces you to the benefits of using gas mixes with more than 21% oxygen. This is a classroom based course that will certify you to use mixes upto 40%. You will learn about choosing the right mix for the dive, the benefits as well as potential hazards, how to make sure that a cylinder is marked up correctly as well as how nitrox is mixed and how to analyse your cylinder.

DPV Pool session Sunday 31st January 2010 20:00 - 22:00

This is a great fun session to have a go with the Dive propulsion vehicles. The session will start with a briefing and the get you in the water actually using the DPV's to propel you around the pool. It can just be some one of fun or it will give you a taste for using them and when the waters have warmed up a bit you could look at doing the PADI Speciality.

Project Aware Speciality 6th February 2010 13:00 - 17:00

All of us are concerned with the protection and conservation of our coral reefs but most of us don’t know enough about what is going on and how we can help. This course will give you a greater understanding of our aquatic world and our responsibilities as divers. A fun course with a serious message that’s open to non-divers as well, so bring along those friends and family so they can learn too.