Morecambe Area Divers opened its doors to the public in January 2009 offering scuba instruction by instructors with over 40 years of diving and instructing experience both in the UK and abroad. In 2017 MAD joined forces with the SSI with more instructors coming on board and in 2017 they were joined by Mohamed “Curly“ Mokhtar Elazab, an Instructor from the Red Sea with over 14 years of experience teaching scuba diving. In 2020 MAD Dive School was formed with Mark True and Curly as directors. Both MAD Dive School and Morecambe Area Divers are committed to providing every customer with the very finest dive equipment, dive education and dive travel, all with unequalled personal service.
The team at MAD Dive School are dedicated to your success and to make diving a lifetime of adventure through high quality training. The instructors will guide you at your own pace to a level of proficiency that ensures your continued enjoyment of the sport. We do this by teaching in small classes and flexible program schedules, and individual tuition where required. No matter what your age (we can teach from 8 years of age) or disability, we will find a program which will suit your needs.
MAD Dive School will help you make informed purchasing decisions that enable you to attain your personal diving goals which may be novice to technical or even up to professional. We offer frequent diving activities both local, UK Coast and to the Red Sea as well as the concept of safe diving. For those who wish to consider a career in recreational diving, we can put you in touch with dive schools around the world who may be able to offer internship. We do however have special relationships with centres in the Red Sea. We have consistently favourable feedback from satisfied customers. Visit our course and event calendar frequently, there is always something new to do.
We guarantee our service and our equipment, you can dive with confidence at MAD Dive School. Look at your my SSI app or visit our website: MAD dive school.co.uk or join Morecambe Area Divers on facebook/instagram/twitter and whats app to stay connected/
Capernwray is the North-West’s inland dive site frequented by many divers and schools. Tends to open at weekends and from thursdays in the winter and on wednesdays through to evening in the summer.
Some of the most famous dive sites of St. Abbs are just 50m away from the wall of the harbour: “Cathedral Rock”, “Big Green Carr”, “Broad Craig” and “Little Carr”. These sites can be dived as a shore dive from the harbour or other sites can be reached by dive boat.
Wastwater, England’s deepest natural lake. Situated in the Lake District National Park this lake formed in a glacial valley 60m above sea level. It is 4.8km long, 500m wide and reaches depths of 79m at its deepest point. The lake is owned by the National Trust and is a popular tourist destination.
The Farne Islands are famous for a colony of 4.5 thousand grey seals and teeming with life on the many varied dive sites. Most of the sites are around the outer Farnes with wrecks and reefs to explore.
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