Congratulations to Robert O'Rourke our latest Divemaster Intern to achieve the first rung on the PADI Professional ladder and achieve the PADI Divemaster certification.

Why did Rob choose Dive Rutland? well he has promised to write a blog on that so watch out for that.

Here at Dive Rutland, a PADI 5* IDC (Instructor Development Centre) Dive Centre, we believe in supporting everyone to achieve their diving dreams, so whatever yours are, why not pop along and have a chat and make your dreams come true.

Pictures from the second diving activity on Thursday 11th of April of Stamford Sports Easter Camp 

Missed this event then why not sign up for the Summer Camp and we will see you there

Selection of photographs from Wednesdays Diving Activity at Stamford Sports Camp

Missed this event then why not sign up for the Summer Camp and we will see you there

We would like to formally welcome Richard (Rick) Smith to the Dive Rutland professional team.
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Rick was a Dive Rutland club member who trained alongside our professional team to gain his Divemaster qualifications.

Welcome...

Congratulations to those that Discovered Scuba Diving During March and completed qualifications with us.

Are you a Rescue Diver and possibly looking for your next challenge?  You could complete Five Specialities and become a PADI Master Scuba Diver OR how about joining us and becoming a PADI Divemaster

Becoming a Divemaster involves lots work and personal skill development and is the first level of being a PADI Professional, along with the rescue course some say this is the hardest course.

You have to deepen your dive knowledge and improve your dive skills.  Lets see..

• Do you remember your first introduction to diving?
• Do you remember those individuals who took you for your first pool and open water dives?
• Do you aspire to be like them -  well you probably do if they were Dive Rutland professionals!

One of the primary roles of a Divemaster is to be the SAFETY DIVER for the Instructor leading the group.  If as the instructor we are at 40 metres and in some form of trouble, I don't just anyone as my safety diver, I want the best.  Thats what we train THE BEST

We do not pull any punches, we will train you hard, you will work with REAL students undertaking REAL training, all of which takes time.  If you are prepared to put the time and effort in alongside your Dive Rutland mentor you will get real value out of your training.

During your Divemaster internship you will get to see all sides of the Dive Centre, so a great opportunity to get a real insight into how a UK Dive centre truly operates.

If you have patience and empathy, two of the key attributes of a good Divemaster as no two days with students are the same.  Its exciting, interesting and great fun being a PADI professional and its the best office in the world.

Our Dive centre is extremely busy, so you will get to see the team working lots of different courses so why not come in for a chat and take that step to becoming a PADI Professional... everyone is welcome.

So on Saturday evening the Dive Rutland Team members all came together for our annual Rescue Evening.

An evening of generally full of lots of laughter, with a couple of timed swims, rescue practise and then the unknowns... a little scenario put together by our esteemed leader.

The scenario consists of everyone being sent an overall of the evening setting the scene and then individual parts allocated.. only one person knows the entire scenario the rest just play their parts and we see what happens.

This year it was all set around a night dive... want to see a small precise of the evening then have a look at our video

The reason behind this evening is to come together as a team and practise those skills that can so easily become rusty if you do not maintain them (as a team we practise what we preach - we all need to practise and maintain our skills) and the scenario just adds a little bit of extra fun to the evening.  

But to the important bit, what you all want to know is who won the trophy.  Well this year it has been split between two of our team

Well done to you both...  Same again next year..

The new Suunto D5 is now available, who is going to own one first?

The Suunto D5 colour screen displays everything you need to know on a dive. Depth and time are prominent with a switchable window at the bottom where the user can scroll through their NDL, tank pressure, compass heading and timer, these are also displayed around the face in a graphical form. 

Scroll through the switchable window using the lower pusher, and change the view using the middle pusher. 

The intuitive 3-button menu logic, known from Suunto’s EON Steel and Core makes using the Suunto D5 effortless underwater. 

The colour screen is a MIP display with adjustable LED back-light. ​

March Scuba Diver in store and ready for you to pickup the next time you are in or driving past

Back in January we announced that Dive Rutland had become a 100% Project Aware Partner, which means that we make a donation for every certification that we have started since.

That means you will be getting a certification card with a Whale shark on it.  The photograph was taken whilst diving the remote reef of 'Sail Rock', which the gentle giant was using as a cleaning station, between the Islands of Ko Pha Ngan and Koh Tao

Whale Sharks are a slow-moving, filter feeding shark.   With the largest confirmed individual having a length of 12.65m (41.5ft) and a weight of about 21.5t (47,000 lb).  Mouths can be 1.5m (4.9ft) wide, containing 300 to 350 rows of tiny teeth and 10 filters pads which it uses to filter feed.

They can be found in open waters of our tropical oceans and are rarely found in the water below 21 deg celcius and are truly the gentle giants of the sea.  Want to see some footage taken by me then view here