Divemaster Diaries

We make sure to share all of our club trips and holidays on Facebook and SSI but to put all the information in one place, here's a handy summary of the 2022 highlights.

The end of the covid lock-down is in sight (again!) but unlike the previous iterations, this time we have a clear roadmap with (at least partially) fixed dates! That’s the good news but how can we all take advantage of this long-awaited opportunity?! We can summarise the three steps we’d suggest to get you back in the water: Gear, Knowledge & Skills, and Planning.

It was a hit last year, so we thought "why not?!". The end of a year of limited diving is upon us and now we have the vague hope that maybe next ye...

In the second in our series of short stories, our Advanced Open Water Instructor Tim tells us how his diving journey started, and what made him take the step from recreational diver to technical diver and dive professional, and why he decided to move from open circuit technical diving onto close circuit rebreather diving.

We get a lot of questions about what the Mares Horizon is, and what’s the purpose, so we are here to answer them! Here's a few of the most frequently asked questions!

Ever wondered how our staff ever decided to become dive pros? Wondering what's involved in becoming one yourself? In a new feature on our blog, our newest Open Water Instructor Phil tells us a bit about how he started diving, what made him make the decision to become a dive pro and what the Instructor Training Course and Evaluation were like!

Most people looking to learn to scuba dive are baffled by the amount of options and the various courses on offer, read our simple step by step guid...