Welcome to Durham City Scuba.
Have you ever been to a place where strange and beautiful creatures vie for your attention with spectacular scenery? If not, then maybe you should try scuba diving. Let us teach you to be completely at home in an alien environment, to safely observe the wildlife and explore this unique underwater world.
Paul Smith is an experienced diver and a PADI qualified Staff Instructor. He can give you the skills and experience to get the most out of your diving. Assisted by the Assistant Instructors, Divemasters and Rescue Divers that make up the Durham City Scuba Crew.
Please use the links to explore the site, and see what we have to offer, or pop into our Forum. Here you can register and post up any question that Paul, Hels, Jeff or one of the crew will answer for you. Here you will also get the up to date Durham City Scuba news.
We also provide many trips to dive sites all over the country and beyond. We regulalrly run trips to the Farne Islands, Beadnell, St Abb's and Oban. We also run a regular boat out of the Tyne to dive some our our local wrecks off the North Sea Coast. We occasionally have trips to Scapa Flow and Egypt. All trips are advertised in the 'days out' section of the forum. If your qualified and you want to come along, pop into the forum add your name and introduce yourself.
Courses & Prices
We offer a full range of PADI certified courses.
Open Water - from £269
The PADI Open Water Diver Course is the most popular diving course in the world ...find out more
Advanced Open Water
The PADI AOW course is the best way to gain further insight and skills into a number of new and challenging areas of diving ...find out more
Upcoming Trips
We put on regular diving trips to some great places
Farne Islands - Sun 5th July
On the RIB with Paul at Farne Island Diver's. Leaving from Beadnell Harbour as usual ...find out more
St Abb's - Sun 6th Sept
Diving with Billy on the Wavedancer. The boat has a lift on the back and the diving at Abb's is fantastic ...find out more
Paul Smith
Staff Instructor
Paul has been diving for years and can almost breath underwater.
paul@durhamcityscuba.co.uk
Helen Johnston
Assistant Instructor
Hels has been diving about 5 years now and is very short. She's more organised than Paul and really it's her that runs the company.
hels@durhamcityscuba.co.uk
Jeff Brunton
Assistant Instructor
Jif has been diving about 4 years now and is still rubbish at it, He also runs the IT, so any forum issues, let me know.
jeff@durhamcityscuba.co.uk
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