Christal Seas Scuba is Norwich and Norfolk's most established scuba diving school and shop and offers:

 

All PADI scuba diving courses from beginner to Instructor Norfolk's most experienced Instructors Great value dive equipment in our well stocked shop The latest equipment from all major suppliers Over 10 years experience Technical diving courses and equipment On-line shopping Equipment rental and servicing In-house Instructor training

Christal Seas Scuba has been training divers in Norwich for over 10 years and is owned and managed by Chris Wake, Norfolk's only PADI Course Director - the highest level a PADI professional can achieve.  See the About Us page to find out more about about Christal Seas Scuba and our team of friendly professional Instructors.  See the Courses page for more information about the full range of PADI scuba diving courses that we run, from beginner to in-house Instructor training.  We also have an active dive club with over 100 members and a busy programme of diving and other activities.  See the Whats On and the Dive Club pages for more information. 

Seasearch Presentation - Friday 19 February The local Seasearch co-ordinators are giving a presentation about the project and showing a selection of their amazing photographs of marine life off the Norfolk coast at the shop on Friday 19 Feb.  Free to all, but please call to book your place.
New Seal Team starting 21 February The PADI Seal Team is the pool-based dive course for children aged 8 upwards.  It includes 5 AquaMissions which cover a number of dive skills while leaving plenty of time for fun!  For more information see Seal Team details.  There is a new course starting on Sunday 21 Feb - please call to book.
New for 2010 - CSS Technical diving We are now offering a variety of technical diving courses.  This starts with an introduction to Twin Sets in the pool for just £35 for those who want to find out more through to a Twin Set qualification and PADIs Tec Rec courses, qualifying you to dive to 50 metres.  Next Twin Set pool night Wed 10 Feb. See the Courses page for more information.
Christmas Opening Times The dive shop is closed from 4pm Christmas Eve to 9am Saturday 2nd January.  If you need something urgently between these dates please call 07815 781237 and we'll do our best to help. Have a very Happy Christmas and we look forward to seeing you in 2010!
Christmas Dinner success Thank you to everyone for making the CSS Christmas Dinner a great success. Everyone had a great night and we raised over £450 for The Sharks Trust and Sea Shepherd.  Congratulations to those who received special awards and thank you to everyone for making 2009 such a great year.   See the Galleries page for more pictures from the night.

 

Huge congratulations to David Holmes, Tom Morgan, Mariusz Wisniewski and Andrew Gillespie who all qualified as Open Water Scuba Instructors at the Gildenburgh I.E. on the 15th November.  Well done guys and we look forward to seeing you teaching soon.  Also, well done to Marcus who qualified as IDC Staff Instructor and helped with the IDC. 

 

We are pleased to announce that the winners of the divers survey, asking what we can do to improve our service to you, are Tom Morgan, Mel Chilvers and Vanessa Bogstrop.  They suggested a number of ideas including regular beach clean-ups, a Members forum for keeping in touch, passing on tips and equipment reviews etc and ideas for the display boards in the shop.  Thank you for your comments and we're looking into implementing them soon.  For their efforts they have each won a £20 voucher to spend on equipment or courses from the shop. Congratulations and thank you.

 

We're having a dive meeting on Friday 23 October, 6.45pm at The Falcon.  Everyone welcome - see the Whats On page for more details.

 

Many congratulations to Jenny who had a particularly successful weekend at Stoney Cove on 12 September.  Not only did she qualify as Divemaster but she also won a trip for two on a Red Sea liveaboard courtesy of Blue OTwo who were sponsoring a underwater treasure hunt there.   

Well done Jenny!!

 

We have now booked the dive holidays for next year and have got some great destinations planned, including a Red Sea liveaboard, another Farne Islands trip and a week in El Gouna.  See the Holidays page for more details.

 

We've done some great dives on the wreck of the Rosalie at Weybourne during August - a long walk along the beach but well worth it!   

We saw lots of crabs, lobsters, plumose anenemones, bib etc. See the Whats On page for details of the next few trips and the Galleries page for the pics from the last few dives. 

 

The South Coast dive trip in June was a huge success with calm seas and sunshine all the way. We all had a great time and dived some amazing sites and wrecks from Porthkerris to Brighton. See the Holidays page for more details.