Seaways Diver Training - List of Courses
Snorkel Diving for the Family - More info on Snorkel Trips Click Here
Want a safe activity for the whole family? Thinking of snorkelling on holiday? Come to Seaways and learn to snorkel dive in safety. Learn the techniques of snorkel diving, how to get closer to fish, how to make sure that you are safe. This is a fun activity for the whole family that starts in a pool and progresses to the sea - check out the fantastic sea life that Cornwall has to offer! All equipment supplied. Cost
Ocean Diver
This course covers all you need to know if you have never dived before and includes basic nitrox training and basic rescue skills in addition to all the diver training you will need to dive safely to a maximum depthof 20 metres. We have a selection of local dive sites to choose from. All equipment supplied. Cost
Sports Diver
The Sports Diver course takes your present skills and extends them to cover the techniques needed for decompression stop diving using air, Nitrox 32% or Nitrox 36%. We look at suitable equipment for deeper diving and consider bailout options needed for this qualification's maximum depth of 35 metres. Cost
John Dory on the Coroni River - ideal site for Sports Diver Training.
Dive Leader
This qualification has a maximum depth limit of 50 metres and as you would expect, we look at suitable equipment, practical rescue management, oxygen administration and personal rescue skills along with the extended diving and dive management skills needed for the grade. Cost
Advanced Diver
The training for advanced diver covers a wide range of skills. Dive organisational and management skills are taught at a much higher level and this course requires more committment from the student in terms of time, self study and personal diving skills. You may already have done part of the training through your club, or you may want to do the full course. Contact us to discuss your needs. Cost
Instructor Courses
Mike Rowley can teach any and all of the Technical courses and can also run courses for potential technical instructors. Co-author of the BSAC mixed gas course teaching materials, experienced skipper and expedition leader, he loves diving and bikes!
Sophie runs our Instructor workshops when she is in the UK and this gives BSAC members the opportunity of doing an instructor event in the south west at times to suit their busy schedules!
Technical Courses 
Advanced Nitrox - see Accelerated Decompression Procedures
Advanced Nitrox is a pre-requisite for starting the Sports Mixed Gas course - it will eventually be replaced by Accelerated Decompression Procedures. Entry level is Sports Diver or equivalent. Advanced Nitrox will be phased out during 2010.
Accelerated Decompression Procedures Diver
This new course will be available from late January. Although taking the place of the older Advanced Nitrox course, the skills and procedures are quite different. Using specially prepared tables, the course will concentrate on the use of 50% and 70% nitrox mixes to shorten in water decompression and include the practical skills and theory needed to carry this out safely. ADPD has a depth range of 40 metres and the minimum requirement is Sports Diver with Gold standard buoyancy or equivalent.ADP Workshop for Advanced Nitrox Divers
There is a workshop we can run for divers who have already qualified as Advanced Nitrox divers and who wish to upgrade to the new ADP qualification. Enhances what you have already learned and this course is far more relevant to the type of diving being undertaken by sports divers today!Closed Circuit Rebreather (CCR) Air Diluent
Using the APD Inspiration or Evolution CCR, this course covers all the theory, sheltered water exercises, practical workshops and dives needed to start diving this unit safely. You should allow 6 days for this course to cover all the elements. Minimum level of Advanced Nitrox is needed and an open mind! Staring to dive a rebreather is almost like starting again. After the course we recommend a regime of build up dives to enhance and embed the new skills learned on the course.
In return for your hard work, you gain extended dive times, less decompression, silent bubble free diving, getting closer to marine life and the positive effects of breathing a warm, moist gas. Cost
Sports Mixed Gas - Open Circuit or Closed Circuit Rebreather
This course teaches the skills and theory needed to increase your safety in the 40 to 50 metre range with the use of normoxic trimix. Gas mixtures with an oxygen content between 20% and 23% are described as normoxic. Anyone currently diving in the 40 to 50 metre range on air should consider this course because of the enhanced safety and lower narcosis levels.The course can be extended by a further day to gain the Explorer Mixed Gas certificate, enabling diving to 60 metres.
Explorer Mixed Gas Diver - Open Circuit or Closed Circuit Rebreather
This course can be done in place of, or as a 1 day extension to the Sports Mixed Gas and gives you the knowledge and skills to use normoxic trimix to 60 metres. The main difference is in the amount of gas / bailout needed for the deeper diving and two sidemounts of minimum 7 litres are recommended.Diver at 60 metres on wreck of UB65 - The Haunted U-Boat
If you want to dive with more safety in the 40 to 60 metre range then Trimix will add safety to your dive. The Sports Mixed Gas course teaches the use of Normoxic mixes and depending on the level of training you select, has a maximum depth for the qualification of either 50 metres or 60 metres.
Advanced Mixed Gas
This course takes around 6 days to complete and qualifies the diver to 80 metres using hypoxic gas mixes. The course is available to both closed circuit and open circuit divers.
Seamanship Courses
Boat Handling (CDA)
This two day course takes you through the theory and practical elements of the combined diving agencies boat handling course, approved by the MCA. Learn the basics of trip planning and handling a rigid hull inflatable (RIB) in the waters of the Fal estuary. Maximum 3 students per boat.
Diver Cox Assessment
This practical examination isopen to anyone who has taken the Boat Handling course and has had sufficient practise. The assessment looks at your trip planning ability, theory knowledge, boat handling skills, emergency actions and position fixing using transits in addition to your ability to put divers into the water and get them out safely. Successful candidates also receive their Internatinal Certificate of Competence (power) for pleasure craft up to 10 metres in length.
Chartwork & Position Fixing
Want to learn how to find other dove sites? Fed up with being taken to the same old sites? This 2 day course teaches the basics of chartwork and then lets you have a go at finding real sites.
Rescue & Management Courses
We run the full range of BSAC rescue courses on demand.
Oxygen Administration
One day course concentrating on the practical skills of basic life support and oxygen administration as a diving first aid tool. Lots of hands on experience. A course for all divers and boat handlers.
First Aid for Divers
Would you know what to do if there is an accident on the dive boat? What bits of diving kit could we use to help stabilise the casualty? This course gives you the basics.
Lifesaver Award
This is a pool based exam with a dry practical exam afterwards. If you are ready, take the exam - if not, we can help you prepare first! An ideal course for clubs to run during the winter months. In the practical session, swimming rescue, snorkeling rescue and diving rescue techniques are examined, together with the basics of throwing lines and floats. Basic life support techniques in the water and on land.
Advanced Lifesaver
This course and assessment covers personal rescue skills in diving situations, from underwater rescues to recovering casualties into boats. The Lifesaver award is a prerequisite for this SDC.
Practical Rescue Management
Automatic External Defibrillator (AED)
Dive Planning & Management
This 2 day course takes you through all the dive planning elements on day 1, with chartwork, site location, creating the diving plans and planning for safe diving on the following day. On Day 2 you are locating dive sites and in charge of divers while they are in the water, learning to be aware of changing circumstances and making sure you have planned for all eventualities.
General Interest
Wreck Appreciation
This is a 2 day course and covers the layout of wrecks plus some practical diving where we start to orientate ourselves and then take measurements of various parts of the wreck!
Marine Life Appreciation
One day classroom based course which covers the basics of marine life recognition.
Underwater Photography Workshop
A series of 1 day workshops where you get to take some photos and receive practical tips and advice from a professional underwater photographer! Small groups and 1 to 1 sessions possible.
Search & Recovery
This 2 day course covers all the theory and practical exercises needed to carry out underwater searches and then, to calculate how to safely lift your finds to the surface. Good mixture of classroom theory and underwater practical exercises makes this a fun course!