© Nottingham Adventure Centre Ltd 2011 site home | about us | contact us | calendar | location maps To book call the Dive Centre on 0115 929 0707  or reserve your place on-line today. If you're feeling that you want to get that little bit closer to the marine life and learn how to breath hold dive then the PADI Skin Diver program is for you. Skin diving can be described as "breath hold diving". Using masks, snorkels, fins, and buoyancy-control devices (BCD's) skin divers both snorkel on the surface and regularly dive underwater. The PADI Skin Diver course is a simple, structured, training program. In the academic portion of the course, Skin Diver students learn about equipment, diving science, the environment, problem management and safe skin diving practices. Knowledge development covers information on equipment, entering the water, checking buoyancy, surface swimming, snorkel clearing and performing surface dives. In the water training portion of the course, Skin Diver students learn and practice safe skin diving techniques. You'll master skills such as snorkel blast clearing, removing and replacing a weight belt, hand signals & swimming under water. Prerequisites To enroll in the PADI Skin Diver course, you must be     * at least eight years old     * comfortable in the water.