Reasons to dive

There are thousands of different things you can do on your gap year and scuba diving is one of them. Scuba diving remains one of the fastest growing activity sports in the UK and thousands of people are taking-up the sport to experience life underwater!

Below are some key advantages and benefits of scuba diving during your year out:

Qualifications you can use all over the world

If you're planning on travelling during your year out, PADI diving qualfications are accepted at around 5,400 PADI dive centres worldwide - you can dive just about anwhere!

Lifetime qualifications and skills

Diving qualifications last a lifetime! This means that once training is complete (for any course) you can use the qualification for the rest of your life!

Paid work

Thinking of turning pro? Professional level diving qualifications can be used for employment around the world. Divemasters can assist Instructors and guide dives whilst Scuba Instructors can teach a full array of PADI courses from Discover Scuba right the way through to Divemaster (and above). How would you like to work whilst travelling? Maybe you'd like a qualification for university employment? Maybe your after a new profession and lifestlye somehwere exotic?

CV Credentials

Diving qualifications are official and can certainly compliment your CV. Depending on the course you choose, some of the skills you develop as a diver include:

- the ability to study independently
- first aid / CPR
- teaching
- self-discipline
- lateral thinking
- problem solving
- group and teamwork
- responsibility
- professional attitude
- work experience*
- management skills*

* denotes professional level training only

Enjoyment

There is little doubt that scuba diving is enjoyable (unless your diving in a muddy river with 1 foot visibility!). Our destinations are in remote and exotic locations around the world. Waking up each day on a Caribbean beach or jumping into warm Red Sea waters after a camel ride certainly makes your time away enjoyable.

New environment

It is thought that "we" (as a world population) probably know more about space than our waterways and oceans! There are so many exciting, unique and incredible species to see underwater. Diving takes you to a completely new environment where you can see so much! Dolphins, whales, wrecks, fish, corals...you name it...you can see them all somewhere as a diver!

Culture

Our programmes operate in places you might not normally go on holiday! Whether it's a remote island in Fiji, a Bedouin village in Egypt or a private island in Belize; you will experience new people and cultures. This is the exciting bit about gap year travel! You will experience how people live and work in a remote diving location somwhere in the world.

Fun!

Diving is fun! You will learn a lot but you will also have FUN!