PADI SEARCH AND RECOVERY DIVER

PADI Centre of Excellence and Career Development Centre

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Lake days at Surrey Hills
2
Dives, two each day
4
Course price
£375
Minimum age, years
12

How it works

Two days at Surrey Hills

  1. Two instructors planning on a boat

    1

    Online theory

    Activate your PADI online theory and work through it at your own pace before the course.

  2. Diver navigating underwater with a compass

    2

    Day 1 — Surrey Hills Dive Lake

    Two dives with one of our senior instructors, working through your training exercises.

  3. Diver with an inflatable ball underwater

    3

    Day 2 — Surrey Hills Dive Lake

    Two more dives: search patterns, compass navigation and how to rig and lift an object.

  4. Diver over seagrass

    4

    Certified

    Your instructor completes your training log and processes your digital eCard.

Lost something underwater?

The PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty teaches you how to plan and carry out underwater searches and safely recover objects.

This 2-day specialty includes four dives at Surrey Hills Dive Lake, two each day, under the guidance of one of our senior instructors.

Course Details

  • Minimum age: 12 years
  • Prerequisite: PADI Adventure Diver or Open Water Diver
  • Duration: 2 days and 4 dives, two each day
  • Location: Surrey Hills Dive Lake, Tapwood, Reigate Rd, Buckland, Reigate RH2 9RE, on both days
  • Meet: at the lake at 10:00 on Thursdays and Fridays or 09:00 on Saturdays and Sundays, finishing at approximately 16:00 each day
  • Online theory: within 24 hours of booking, PADI emails you details to activate your online theory account, which you complete at your own pace before the course
  • Training exercises include search patterns, compass navigation and how to rig and lift an object underwater
  • At the end of your course, your instructor completes your training log and processes your digital eCard certification
  • Price: £375

Important Information

  • Lake entrance: £20 each day
  • Air fills: £8 cash per fill, with at least four required
  • Bring your latest certification card, logbook, a towel and a timing device or dive computer
  • Summer (May to October): standard schedule; no drysuit required
  • Winter (November to April): the PADI Dry Suit Specialty is required. Drysuit hire is £40 for the course, added at checkout
  • On arrival at Surrey Hills Dive Lake, we will check your paperwork and prepare for the course
  • LSD does not provide transport to the open-water dive sites; we will do our best to arrange a car share with another student, but if this is not possible you will need to arrange your own transport

Search, navigate, lift

Work through training exercises in search patterns, compass navigation and rigging and lifting an object underwater, over four dives at Surrey Hills Dive Lake.

Find it and bring it back

Build practical search and recovery skills

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