TRY DIVES & REFRESHER EVENTS
Try dives – just a taster of what diving is like……. 🙂
We now ask for payment when booking. Credit card details over the phone, or bank transfer are both acceptable. Thanks.
A ‘try dive’ is a pool based session with a very experienced diver. It’s a perfect way to find out if you enjoy being underwater, and want to progress further.
From November 1st 2025, the cost is £30 for adults and £20 for juniors. The minimum age is 8, and there’s no upper age limit.
Booking (and paying) in advance is essential, because we have to bring lots of kit along for you. Use the contact form to let us now you’re keen to come along. Unfortunately, some people have booked, but then not turned up for the session, so we now require payment when booking the pool session.
A fee will be charged for late cancellations (less than 48 hours notice).
We meet at the Riverside Leisure Centre, Exeter EX4 1AF on a Tuesday evening at 19:45. All diving kit will be supplied, though if you’ve got any kit of your own (mask, fins, wet suit) then please bring them along.
Enter the Riverside Leisure Centre (don’t pay at reception), turn left and go through the double doors. We will be in the area just beyond the double doors.
Your instructor will give you detailed instructions of how to use the equipment, so you can have some fun in a warm swimming pool.
Try dives are fun. Here are some people that have done BSAC try dives.
Essential paperwork. Sorry, but there’s a form that has to be completed before you can get in the water. Clicking on the button next to this should give you the disclaimer form. Please fill it in and then press send. Thank you.
Scuba Refresher
We now ask for payment when booking. Credit card details over the phone, or bank transfer are both fine. Thanks.
Not been diving in a while? Refresh your scuba diving skills with a BSAC Scuba Refresher session and let the adventure continue…
If it’s been a while (over a year) since you last dived properly, you may:
- have forgotten how to put the dive gear together
- be worried about your buoyancy control
- not remember (or were never taught) rescue skills
All of the above is absolutely fine and our aim is to get divers in the water and back up to speed.
Refresh your skills with a BSAC club
To get you started, you can book a Scuba Refresher session to refresh your basic scuba skills with a BSAC club. A qualified instructor will take you through skills in a swimming pool. It doesn’t matter if you haven’t dived for years or only done a handful of dives, the session will be tailored to you.
When you contact your local club be sure to ask them about booking a Scuba Refresher session with them. This will probably be two pool sessions.
Reinforcing scuba skills originally taught in training courses is the best way to keep safe and is an important part of club life. Most clubs give members the opportunity to reinforce skills every week.
One of the great things about BSAC club life is that as part of a club you have access to highly trained and experienced instructors who will happily teach and support you as part of your club membership.
What is a Scuba Refresher?
Refresh your practical scuba skills in a pool up to BSAC Ocean Diver level or equivalents such as PADI Open Water or PADI Advanced Open Water level (excludes Nitrox training). At the end of this session, you should:
- Be able to assemble scuba equipment
- Be able to conduct a Buddy Check and have good buddy skills
- Be able to clear and replace your mask
- Be able to clear and replace a demand valve
- Have a good finning action
- Have good buoyancy control skills – have achieved a horizontal trim position underwater
- Have good rescue skills – full alternative source (AS) ascent and controlled buoyant lift (CBL) with tow
- Be confident with deeper entry and exit techniques
- Know the signals for ‘OK’, ‘stop’, ‘up’, ‘down’, ‘you watch me’, ‘you do’ and ‘something wrong’
- Be able to dismantle and wash down a scuba unit
We now ask for payment when booking. Credit card details over the phone, or bank transfer are both acceptable. Thanks.
Costs
To go through things fully, this will usually take two dive sessions. The cost per session is £40. If you’re an experienced, but ‘rusty’ diver we might manage with only one pool session, and have the second as an instructor led sea dive. If you qualified a long time ago, but have very few logged dives, then we will probably need two pool sessions (£80).