Whats On? ...
Dive Weekends / CoursesThe dive weekends and trips are great for meeting new buddies and gaining more experience. A range of courses are run on each weekend as well as meeting up for pleasure dives. The next few weeekends are as follows - all welcome.
| Date |
Courses |
Location |
| 2012: |
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| 24 & 25 March |
Open Water, Drysuit Speciality, Advanced Open Water, Navigation Speciality and SMB / Photography Speciality |
Stoney Cove |
| 6 to 9 April |
Tec diving weekend |
Stoney / Chepstow |
| 7 & 8 April (Easter) |
Open Water, Drysuit Speciality, Advanced Open Water and Wreck Speciality |
Stoney Cove |
| 21 & 22 April |
Rescue Diver course |
Norfolk |
| 28 & 29 April |
Open Water, Drysuit Speciality, Advanced Open Water, Deep Speciality and Wreck Speciality |
Stoney Cove |
| 11 to 13 May |
Tec diving weekend |
Chepstow |
| 12 & 13 May |
Open Water, Drysuit Speciality, Advanced Open Water and Wreck Speciality |
Stoney Cove |
| 2 & 3 June |
Open Water, Drysuit Speciality, Advanced Open Water, Navigation Speciality and SMB / Photography Speciality |
Stoney Cove |
| 8 to 11 June |
Tec diving weekend & Normoxic Trimix courses |
Chepstow |
| 16 & 17 June |
Open Water, Drysuit Speciality, Advanced Open Water and Deep Speciality |
Stoney Cove |
| Sunday 1 July |
Pleasure dives and Drysuit Speciality courses |
Gildenburgh |
| 7 & 8 July |
Rescue Diver course |
Norfolk |
| 14 & 15 July |
All courses - let us know what you want to do. |
Stoney Cove |
| 4 & 5 August |
All courses - let us know what you want to do. |
Stoney Cove |
| 25 & 26 August |
All courses - let us know what you want to do. |
Stoney Cove |
| 25 to 27 August |
Tec diving weekend. Tec 50 / Extended Range |
Chepstow |
| 8 & 9 September |
All courses - let us know what you want to do |
Stoney Cove |
| 29 & 30 September |
Rescue Diver course |
Stoney Cove |
| Sunday 30 Sept |
Pleasure dives and Drysuit Speciality courses |
Gildenburgh |
Other courses / activitiesWe run several courses designed to increase your knowledge and skills - see details below. Please let us know if you want to do a course outside of these times as we can usually book extra courses on request.
| Date - 2010 |
Title |
Location |
| Wed 29 Feb |
Halycon kit night -come and try out some new kit! |
Petans pool, 6.30pm |
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| Mon 12 March |
Oxygen Provider |
CSS Dive Shop, 6.15pm |
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| Wed 21 March |
Enriched Air (Nitrox) Spec |
CSS Dive Shop, 6.30pm |
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| Sat 31 March |
EFR First Aid |
CSS Dive Shop, 10am |
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| April |
Assistant Instructor course |
Norwich |
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| 30 April - 4 May |
Instructor Development course |
Aylesbury |
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| 5 & 6 May |
Instructor Exams |
Bristol |
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| Tues 15 May |
Oxygen Provider |
CSS Dive Shop, 6.15pm |
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| Sat 30 June |
EFR First Aid |
CSS Dive Shop, 10am |
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Social EventsWe run regular social events so you can meet fellow divers in your local area
| Date |
Title |
Location |
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Details |
| Fri 17 Feb |
Snowtubing |
Norfolk Snowsports Club, Trowse |
A fun night whizzing down the ski slope on a rubber ring! Just £10 per person, please call the shop to book your place. Meet at the ski club at 18.15 Details |
| Sat 3 March |
BSAC Dinner Dance |
Dunston Hall, Norwich |
Norwich BSAC's annual dinner dance at Dunston Hall. A great opportunity to dress up and enjoy some good food and dancing. See here for menu choices and please book through CSS. Starts at 7pm, Black Tie / Smart dress. |
| Tues 6 March |
Divers meeting |
The Boundary pub, Norwich |
A great opportunity to get together with other divers in the area. Come along and catch up with the latest news and plan some dives. Everyone welcome! 7pm onwards. |
| Tbc |
Chamber Dive |
London |
Experience a recompression chamber dive and learn more about how to spot signs and symptoms of decompression sickness and tips for avoiding it. Highly recommended! |
Norfolk Coast Diving
We have our own dive boat for trips around the UK and off the Norfolk coast.
Norfolk Coast boat dives all launch from Sea Palling unless otherwise stated. Head down Beach Road and meet in the car park near the Beach Rock jet ski centre at the stated meet time to kit up. The boat will leave approx. 1 hour after and divers will be in the water at the dive time (slack water).
There is the option to do a drift dive on the Mussel beds off Sea Palling as a second dive if you like.
Cost is £40 for 1 dive, £50 if doing the drift aswell.
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BOAT DIVES
Date |
Meet time |
Dive time
(slack water) |
Location |
| More dates to be confirmed |
Tbc |
Tbc |
Sea Palling |
North Norfolk Shore Dives
We also organise regular shore dives on the wrecks of the Rosalie (Weybourne) and Vera (Cley) as well as the Sheringham gullies. The organised shore dives are finished for 2011, but we will be arranging more for 2012. Not all of these are unaccompanied, but we can put you in touch with others wanting to do them, or email christal.seas.scuba@hotmail.com to join the Buddy List so you can contact people direct. All dives weather dependent - please check the weather or call the day before to check that they are going ahead. These are all done at slack water, the centre of which is 2 hours after low or high tide at Cromer. Slack water lasts for about 1 hour so you can therefore enter the water approx. one and a half hours after high or low tide. The gullies can be done at low or high tide but the wrecks are most easily done at low tide slack when the tips of the wrecks stick out of the water. There is some great information on the two wrecks, and how best to dive them, on the local Seasearch co-ordinators website, see http://www.1townhouses.co.uk/pelagicpixels/tripreports/veraandrosalie.htm
Look at that website for details, but basic directions are as follows:
Weybourne (The Rosalie): Park in Weybourne beach car park and walk west (left) along the beach for about 600 metres until you are level with the wreckage that sticks out of the water. Surface swim out to it then drop down.
Cley (The Vera): Park in Cley beach car park (almost opposite the Cley Marshes bird reserve centre) and walk east (right) along the beach for 400 metres until you are level with the wreckage that sticks out of the water. Swim out to it and drop down.
Sheringham gullies: Park on the Esplanade and head straight down to the beach. Surface swim out for a while then drop down and swim out north, then turn around and swim back in.
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SHORE DIVES
Date and time |
Activity |
Location |
| Finished for 2011. More coming in 2012.... |
Shore dives |
Weybourne / Cley |
Pool SessionsWe have regular pool sessions where everyone is welcome to come along - either to try out your latest piece of dive equipment, come for a dive or for a refresher to practice the essential dive skills. Please call on 01603 485000 to book your next session.
| When |
Title |
Location |
| Every Wednesday |
Pool sessions |
Norwich |
| Every Thursday |
Pool sessions |
Norwich |
| Occasional Sundays |
Pool sessions |
Norwich |
Seasearch Events
We support Seasearch who train divers in fish identification and recording to gain a picture on what is living in the sea around our coast. See their website for details of upcoming courses http://www.seasearcheast.org.uk/
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