Oakleigh Park School of Swimming - SCUBA Diving
Woodside Park Swimming pool. N12 7BN

Welcome to Oakleigh Park’s SCUBA Diving PADI school. We invite you all, to try this exciting and adventurous sport. Our PADI professional instructor, Els Morad, will take you through every step and SCUBA skills, whether you’re experiencing diving for the first time, discovering basic skills, refreshing your existing skills or developing your skills with advanced courses, then this is where you need to be.

Our instructor, who some of you may recognise as one of our swimming teachers, has years of experience from commercial diving to fun recreational diving, and last year received the PADI qualification of staff instructor. He also has numerous qualifications and specialities, including EFR-trained emergency first responder, night diver, navigation, search and recovery, as well as his own passion for free diving.

Benefits of choosing Oakleigh Park SCUBA diving:
* Courses run weekly
* Own heated swimming pool and changing facilities see Covid policy for any changes
* Free parking on site
* All your equipment hire is included in the course costs
* HSE SCUBA equipment maintenance
* Competitive prices in London
* Highly-qualified PADI instructor teaching the courses
* COVID protections and safety policies in place

Adventures we currently run:

PADI Open Water Referral and Open Water Course
Padi Seal team: Ages 8-12 years old
Discover SCUBA: Try dive for 10 years to adults
SCUBA Parties: Ages 8 years upwards

PADI Open Water Referral

This course is the first two sections of the PADI open water diver course and must be completed before you can move on to your four open water dives. The course is 6 hours and is completed in one day.

PADI Open Water Course

Once the above course has been completed, this section can be completed at any PADI centre worldwide.

Padi Seal Team : Ages 8-12 years old

The PADI Seal Team is for young SCUBA divers who are looking for action-packed fun in a pool by completing exciting AquaMissions. Have you ever wondered what it's like to dive with flashlights, take digital pictures underwater or float effortlessly like an astronaut? Beyond learning basic SCUBA skills, there are specialty AquaMissions, such as wreck diving, navigation, buoyancy, environmental awareness and more. PADI Seal Team includes doing some cool stuff in the pool, meeting friends and sharing in the adventure of the underwater world. To join the PADI Seal Team, a child must be 8 years of age or older. No prior experience with SCUBA diving is necessary, but kids should be comfortable in the water. Parental approval is required.

The PADI Seal Team program teaches responsibility and respect for the aquatic realm. It's broken into two parts:

Part one: AquaMissions 1 - 5, covers basic SCUBA diving skills, such as breathing underwater, clearing a mask of water, recovering a regulator and swimming around experiencing the sensation of being weightless. Each session takes about an hour. Complete these AquaMissions and become a recognized PADI Seal Team Member. Your experience may also count toward the PADI Open Water Diver course when you're old enough to participate in the course.

Part two:10 specialty AquaMissions, includes adventures like creature identification, search and recovery diving, and skin diving. Complete all of these and you'll become a PADI Master Seal Team Member - joining an elite group of young SCUBA divers.

Costs: Part One: Fridays 7-8pm. £240. Part Two: £385

Discover SCUBA - Try Dive - 10 years old to adults

If you’re heading to an exotic place that offers SCUBA diving but have never done it before and want to learn and see what it’s like, then Discover SCUBA is perfect for you. Even if you fancy doing a PADI-certified course but feel apprehensive, then this Discover SCUBA try dive will give you the basic skills and build your confidence for that next big step. The basic skills will get you breathing underwater (for many this is a weird and strange sensation), clearing masks, learning the equipment and buoyancy.

Cost: £75 per person. 2 hours

SCUBA parties. 8 years upwards

Well, this will be a party with a difference! Currently 6 swimmers at a time. So potentially have 12 in the party and swap after 40 minutes. Minimum of 6. £55 per person. 1 hour to 1 hour 20 minutes in the pool followed by 1 hour for food after.

Cost: £55 per person. Minimum of 6.

Once you have a taste of SCUBA diving, you will love it and there are so many opportunities to progress and advance in continued education in diving i.e. open water courses, specialties and advanced. This will be available in the near future at Oakleigh Park School of Swimming SCUBA.