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: at least four required; one fill per lake day is included, and extra fills are £8 cash each, paid at the lake
- Bring your latest certification card, logbook, a towel and a timing device or dive computer
- Summer (May to October): no dry suit required
- Winter (November to April): the PADI Dry Suit Diver specialty is required. If you need a suit, dry suit 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
- A Scuba Review (£135) is required if you have not dived within 12 months — get £20 off when booked at the same time as your course with code SR20
- 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
What to bring
Your own gear
Bring your own mask and snorkel, plus boots in summer or gloves in winter. Everything else is as listed in the course details.
- Mask and snorkelAll year
- BootsSummer, May to October
- GlovesWinter, November to April
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
Check the live availability above and choose your Search and Recovery training dates.