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PADI – Discover Scuba Diving
Always wanted to try scuba diving? The PADI Discover Scuba Diving experience is the perfect first step. No experience needed—just bring your sense of adventure! Available at our UK training centres in Reading, Swindon, Oxford and Bristol.
Course Type: Introduction
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PADI Discover Scuba Diving – Your First Breath Beneath the Surface
Try Scuba Diving in a Safe, Fun, and Fully Supervised Experience
Curious about what it’s like to breathe underwater? The PADI Discover Scuba Diving experience at The Diving Academy is the perfect way to dip your toes into the world of scuba without committing to a full certification course. Designed for absolute beginners, this one-session experience gives you a taste of the excitement, freedom, and weightlessness of the underwater world.
Led by a certified PADI Instructor, you’ll learn the basics of diving and get the chance to explore a shallow pool using real scuba equipment. It’s the ideal introduction for anyone who’s ever dreamed of trying scuba diving—no experience needed.
What to Expect
Your experience begins with a safety briefing where you’ll learn how scuba gear works and what to expect in the water. Once you’re feeling confident, you’ll gear up and enter the pool for your first breath underwater. You’ll practise simple underwater skills and enjoy the incredible sensation of being weightless beneath the surface.
What You’ll Learn
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How to use scuba equipment safely
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Breathing underwater with a regulator
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Basic hand signals for underwater communication
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Equalising pressure and adjusting buoyancy
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Confidence-building techniques for first-time divers
This experience is not a certification, but it counts as credit towards the PADI Open Water Diver course if you decide to continue your training.
Who It’s For
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Anyone aged 10 and over
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Complete beginners with no prior scuba experience
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Holidaymakers and adventure seekers
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People considering a full scuba diving course
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Individuals who want to try something new and exciting
Course Details
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Minimum Age: 10 years
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Session Duration: 1.5–2 hours
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Location: Heated indoor pool (Reading, Swindon, or Bristol)
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Pre-Requisites: Basic swimming ability; comfort in water
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Included: Full scuba gear, instructor time, and pool session
Why Choose The Diving Academy?
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Certified PADI 5-Star IDC Centre
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Locations in Reading, Swindon, Oxford and Bristol
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Welcoming and professional instructors
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Ideal for individuals, couples, or small groups
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A perfect first step before Open Water certification
Take the Plunge
If you’ve always wanted to try scuba diving, the PADI Discover Scuba Diving experience is the perfect introduction. It’s fun, low-pressure, and designed to help you feel confident and inspired to continue your dive journey. Book your session today and take your first breath beneath the surface with The Diving Academy.
Next Steps
Independent Study
Step 1 – PADI eLearning®
Prepare for your Discover Scuba Diving experience with PADI DSD eLearning. Use your computer or mobile device to learn diving safety fundamentals before you get in the water.
- eLearning time commitment: 20-30 min
At The Diving Academy
Step 2 – With Your Instructor
Our team of PADI Professionals will fit you with scuba gear and explain how to use it. In our pool. You’ll practice basic diving skills followed by free time to play underwater.
- Prerequisites: None
- Total time commitment: 2-3 hours
- Minimum age: 10
Prerequisites
The Discover Scuba Diving Course Course prerequisites:
- Must be a minimum of 10 years old
- You Should be comfortable in the water
- You should be in relatively good health and fitness and you will need to make sure that you can answer ‘no’ to all the questions on the medical questionnaire, if not you will need medical clearance from a doctor.
Course Medical Requirements
Scuba diving requires a minimum level of health and fitness. Chronic health conditions, certain medications and/or recent surgery may require you to get written approval from a physician before diving.
Avoid disappointment, download and review the Diver Medical form to ensure you won’t need a physician’s approval to dive before enrolling in a scuba course. Instructors, divemasters and dive shop staff are not physicians and should not be asked for medical advice; only medical professionals can give medical clearance to dive.
If you (or your physician) have questions about medical fitness to dive, contact the experts at Divers Alert Network (DAN).
What’s Included
What’s Included
- Your course tuition fees for the dates you have booked.
- Your PADI eLearning or Manual
- Equipment hire
- Air Fills for the pool. (If required)
- PADI eCertification Card
Additional Costs
- Dive site entry from £15- £25 per day. (If required)
- Transportation for you to the dive centre, pools & dive sites.
- Subsequent air fills at Open Water sites payable directly to venue.
Youth Academy
Youth Diving At Diving Academy
For children and young adults, mastering the art of scuba diving is an experience like no other. Your child’s first breaths underwater mark the beginning of a life changing journey as a PADI diver. With great benefits for both educational and personal growth, diving provides the opportunity to put classroom knowledge into practice, while learning new skills and building long-lasting friendships.
Diving requires patience, dedication and great sense of humour. While mastering PADI’s specific performance requirements, students will develop positive characteristics such as communication, trust and open-mindedness, all while gaining a great sense of personal achievement.
Encourage them to push the boundaries of what they dream possible.
As an PADI approved Youth Training Centres we adhere to strict health and safety practices and comply with government legislation for working with young people.
This includes implementing our Dive Centre Child Protection Policy with dedicated liaison and carrying out comprehensive DBS (Disclosure Barring Checks) with all PADI professionals before allowing them to work with our young people.
When you choose to work with us as a PADI Approved Youth Training Centre, you can feel confident your young persons are enrolled with the most instructionally sold diver training system available worldwide.
Your child’s introduction to the underwater world with PADI will open the door to a lifetime of discovery and exploration.
Course Locations
Dive Centre
Diving Academy – Dive Centre, Sunfield Business Park, New Mill Road, Wokingham, RG40 4QT
Pool Training Sites
Wokingham – The Forest School, Robin Hood Lane, Winnersh, Wokingham, RG41 5NE
Yateley – Yateley School, School Lane, GU46 6NW
Hagbourne – Hagbourne School Pool, Main Road, East Hagbourne, OX11 9LR
Swindon – Halo Highworth Recreation Centre, The Elms, Highworth, Swindon SN6 7DD
Open Water Training Sites:
London – Wraysbury Diving Lake, Station Road, Wraysbury, Berkshire, TW19 5ND
Radstock – Vobster Quay, Upper Vobster, Radstock, BA3 5SD
Leicester – Stoney Cove, Sapcote Road, Stoney Stanton, Leicester, LE9 4DW
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