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About Us

So who are we..............

We are a small family business who are passionate about diving, especially UK diving. Like many people we learned to dive and then our passion for diving became all consuming until in 2005 we acquired our own dive business based in Selsey. Prior to this we were involved with a number of dive businesses.

We are absolutely passionate about diving both in terms of our own diving and in trying to ensure that you are provided with the best possible diving experiences. In fact someone once left us a message which said "It is 7.00 in the morning freezing cold and pouring with rain....you two can only have gone diving"! We have dived in a number of locations around the world however we believe some of our best diving has been here in the UK.

So our focus is on persuading you to learn to dive, then ensuring that you continue to dive by offering you a range of different dive opportunities, experience (training) and equipment. We organise holidays and training overseas however we work hard to persuade you to dive in the UK and find out what you have been missing! To help us achieve this we have a small dedicated support team so why not take the opportunity to either visit us or give us a call.

The Team

Linda Frampton - IDCS - Instructor - eight years ago Steve and I booked a holiday to Corsica a very short notice. On our first day we did a try dive and were hooked! First week of holiday learning to dive and second week persuading everyone to take us diving. Back in the UK we completed Advanced in Stoney Cove in January then off to the Red Sea. From then on diving was our passion as you can probably see from the comments above! My best dives to date - there are so many..a few: Far Mulberry with cuttlefish and John Dory, Madivaru, Maldives with the Manta Rays, Los Galletos, Tenerife with the Turtles, Tabarka Scapa Flow for viz and drift. This year we will be returning to some of our favorite UK wrecks and travelling to Papua New Guinea.

Steve Frampton - MSDT - Instructor, Boat Skipper -Both Linda and I learnt to dive together and since then we have enjoyed many hours underwater in various locations around the world with so many happy and wonderful memories. We've tried to distill all the good, bad and ugly that we have seen and experienced to create the service we offer our clients today. There are so many dives to remember: manta rays in the Maldives, Tabarka wreck dive in Scapa Flow, cuttlefish on the Far Mulberry. This year I am hoping to find our local seahorses...

Rob White - MSDT - Instructor - I became a PADI Open Water diver in the Philippines in 1997. It was warm, clear and so much to see, I loved it. On returning to the UK I signed up for a dive off Shoreham. It was dark, raining, viz was poor and we were swept along by the current. I could not wait to get back in again I was hooked. So I progressed to Instructor and enjoy showing others the underwater world I have such an addication for. I love the Philippines and the Red Sea. My best dives have to be being joined by 2 dolphins whilst diving the Giannis D and the school of hammerheads at the Brothers Islands, Red Sea. My dream location therefore has to be Cocos Islands. Until I get there you will find me using every opportunity to practice with my camera so as not to miss a shot!

Anya Frampton - Rescue - Retail Manager and Event Co-Ordinator - I learnt to dive two years ago and rapidly realised during my first open water dive that I was hooked- so much wonderful marine life to see. Currently I am working towards my Divemaster qualification. I have enjoyed a number of wonderful dives. Highlights include: watching a lobster catch and eat tea on the Far Mulberry immediately after completing Open Water, the large turtle snacking on coral at Abu Soma, Safaga; swim past by an Angel Shark at Palma de Mare, Tenerife. I have a list of marine life I hope to see top of the list has to be seahorses so look for me in the weed.

Lee Thompson - Open Water - Skipper - I only qualified as an Open Water diver last year after many years working as a skipper and taking everyone else out to do wonderful dives. Now I am totally hooked and can not wait to progress my diving and dive skills. Best dive to date has to be Selsey Lifeboat Station my first night dive drifiting around watching dog whelks and being threatened by a lobster with attitude! My main role is boat skipper so ensuring you all enjoy your dives however I cannot wait to get back into the water both in this country and overseas.

Izzy Porter - Rescue - part time Retail Assistant - I learnt to dive in Selsey in 2002 and have been working in the dive centre since I learnt to dive! Currently I am working towards my divemaster. I love working in the dive centre and enjoy helping others to fulfil their diving ambitions and further their diving education. Being a member of the Selsey Lifeboat crew, I love the local waters and enjoy diving them. My favorite dive site is "tanks and bulldozers" which is teeming with marine life. I have experienced diving in many countries (whilst on my travels) such as Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Red Sea, Carribean, Lanzarote and Mexico. My most exciting and memorable dive to date is my close encounter with hammerheads at Elphinstone Reef, Red Sea.

Ollie Porter - BSAC Sports Diver - part time Retail Assistant - I am a member of the CCF and learnt to dive at the Defence Diving School at HMS Excellent at part of the Royal Navy cadet course in 2005. I am a member of the local BSAC club (Selsey Bill Sub Aqua Club) and at present I am working towards Dive Leader. Almost all of my diving has been UK based and you can not beat it. There is so much to see off Selsey and its always changing no two dives will ever be the same. My favourite dive site is the Mixon Hole with its various shelves and wall faces there is so much to see. I plan to take a gap year between school and unversity so I can travel and explore the diving in different places around the world. My biggest ambition ...to ice dive.

Richard Welch - Rescue - trainee Divemaster - I took up scuba diving back in 2005 after returning from a holiday in Florida where I swam with dolphins and snorkelled around a man made reef full of different types of fish and aquatic life. I was hooked and did not want to stay at the entry level of Open Water Diver. So over the last three years I moved forward to Rescue Diver and I am currently working towards Divemaster. Primarily a UK diver my best dives to date are: Selsey Lifeboat Station which has a lot to offer every level of diver, sea life is everywhere and each time you dive this location its different; the Far Mulberry located 2miles off shore at Pagham an amazing dive site for every level of diver, offering a great place to see large shoals of fish life in and around the wreckage; Countess of Erne located within Portland Harbour my best wreck dive to date, which got me hooked on wreck diving. My future goals: To move forward into the professional realms within diving, whilst focusing on more wreck diving and underwater photography as for where to dive next? it’s not where you dive next, it’s the fact that your diving there that counts.