CGSB SCUBA Club is open to all students of Chatham Grammar School for Boys and Holcombe College
When you learn to SCUBA Dive, you can explore the 70% of the Earth's surface which is covered by water, appreciate how exciting it can be, discover how beautiful it is ... and realise just how vital and delicate an ecosystem it is.
SCUBA stands for Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
LEARNING TO SCUBA DIVE
The CGSB SCUBA Club has weekly sessions at the Black Lion Leisure Centre pools where you can learn to master water skills and diving theory and earn a lifelong international SCUBA diving qualification. You just need to be a swimmer and confident in the water.
As a PADI Junior Open Water Diver (under 15) you'll be qualified to dive down to 12m As a PADI Junior Advanced Open Water Diver you'll be qualified to dive down to 21m ...
As a senior (15 and over) PADI Open Water Diver you'll be qualified to dive down to 18m As a senior PADI Advanced Open Water Diver you'll be qualified to dive down to 30m ...
...worldwide
For more information about learning to SCUBA Dive with the Club, speak to Miss Wilson at School or email info@cgsbscubaclub.org.uk
SCUBA DIVING AS A SPORT AND HOBBY
Your SCUBA Diving qualification enables you to dive whenever you have the opportunity - at weekends, in the evenings, on holiday with your family and on specially organised club dive trips and holidays in the UK and abroad. SCUBA Diving is an exciting non-competitive sport that develops responsibility, teamwork and leadership skills and opens our eyes to a vital part of our world that most people never see. Above all, SCUBA Diving is safe and FUN.
SCUBA DIVING FOR YOUR DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S AWARDS
You can count your SCUBA Diving training towards your Bronze, Silver and Gold Duke of Edinburgh's Awards, in the Physical Recreation Section.
You can count your Emergency First Responder training (CPR and First Aid) towards your Bronze, Silver or Gold Duke of Edinburgh's Award, in the Skills Section.
SCUBA DIVING AS A CAREER
Your SCUBA Diving can bring you closer to a career that involves our underwater world: perhaps as a marine biologist or marine environmental scientist; as a commercial diver working on rigs, ships and underwater installations; in the Navy as a military diver; in the Police as forensic diver; in the emergency services as a search and rescue diver; as a diving instructor. And, on your CV, SCUBA Diving demonstrates that you are able to master new knowledge and skills and you are able to adapt to new and unusual situations - attributes valuable to any employer.
SCUBA DIVING IN EDUCATION
GCSE AND GCE AS/A2
Did you know that you can include SCUBA Diving as a sports option for your GCSE and GCE AS/A2 at Chatham Grammar School for Boys and Holcombe College ?
For more information about credits towards your GCSE and GCE Physical Education courses, speak to Mr. Anderson at the School
UNIVERSITY CREDIT
Your PADI SCUBA Diving qualification can also be mentioned as an attribute on your UCAS Personal Statement, and can even credit you points towards certain University Degrees (e.g. Marine Biology, Marine Environmental Sciences and Marine Engineering) - Check with your University Prospectuses.
The CGSB SCUBA Club operates with Invicta Divers SCUBA School at the Black Lion Leisure Sports Centre in Gillingham to provide SCUBA Diving training and PADI Qualifications
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