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Essex School of Diving in Colchester - About Us

About Us

About Us with Essex School of Diving in Colchester, Essex. Our Opening hours are Monday to Saturday, 0900 to 2000 hrs. To Contact us, please email or text us at anytime. To ring us, please use the mobile number below between 0900 and 2000 hrs Monday to Saturday only. Located in Colchester, Essex, Essex School of Diving was formed and established in 2005 by a group of instructors who had previously worked for Shark Scuba until it closed. We have now evolved to be one the largest and most successful Diving School in the area, teaching hundreds of people of all ages to scuba dive, having some great fun holidays and trips. We mainly operate from Leisure World in Colchester, Essex, where we conduct classroom and pool sessions on Saturday evenings. For larger groups taking Theory lessons we use our Training Rooms located on Ipswich Road in Colchester, which are also used for First Aid Training and some of our Diving Courses. We are a friendly, highly trained and, dedicated team of PADI Scuba Diving Instructors/Professionals, who are passionate about Scuba have been teaching and diving for many years. For more details about our professionals visit our Meet The Team page. We do not run a dive shop, hire/sell or service diving equipment.

We do not or sell air refills to the general public. We have no hidden agenda or vested interest in promoting or selling /hiring diving equipment or related goods to you, for profit. Our main activities are Teaching PADI Scuba Diving courses in the UK and abroad, including PADI professional courses such as Divemaster. We Plan and attend diving trips for fun and qualification purposes. We also travel the World on our scuba diving holidays having fun teaching students diving courses.

We have close links with a Platinum PADI Course Director (Steve Prior) as well as with IDC Dive Centre's in the UK such as Planet Scuba. In Egypt we work closely with Pharaoh Dive Clubs, Red Sea Diving College and Camel Divers, where we conduct quite a lot of our open water referral, Advanced and Speciality courses.

Working together with Essex School of Diving for a Safer diving world: First Aid Training Essex