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 | | Author: | Alex Varnals | Created: | Sunday, March 04, 2007 9:00 AM |  | | Alex & Kat's Blog of the going's on at Diving Leisure Leeds.... |
| OXYGEN & HELIUM IS NOW AVAILABLE | |
| By Alex Varnals onFriday, April 18, 2008 8:47 PM | |
| We are pleased to finally announce that after the months of development we are now able to offer all the diving gases wanted by even the most technical of diver or the most relaxed recreational diver. With air, nitrox, trimix, heliox, heliair and any other combination of oxygen, helium and nitrogen you can think of, then we can blend it. Argon coming soon..... Watch this space... |  | |
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| | Nitrox Diver Course | |
| By Alex Varnals onThursday, April 17, 2008 8:16 PM | |
| Well done to all the guys who completed their Nitrox course at the dive centre this evening. The guys had different reasons for completing the course, from wanting to dive at Altitude in America and for diving longer on wrecks in the UK. If you don't know much about Nitrox, this course specifically relates to Oxygen Enriched Air, which allows the diver to reduce the nitrogen loading during a dive and subsequently extend their no-decompression limits. For more information come to the centre and discuss this program with our PADI professionals in store. The next Nitrox Course is on the 13th May 2008. | | |
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| | PADI Drysuit Specialty & Open Water Diver | |
| By Alex Varnals onSunday, April 13, 2008 8:52 PM | |
| Well done to all the guys and gals who were at Capernwray this Sunday. The students all had a great time and learned lots of new skills that they can now carry forward to use in their future dive lives. Enjoy... | | |
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| | Open Water and Drysuit Orientation | |
| By Alex Varnals onSaturday, April 12, 2008 8:25 PM | |
| Today was a long day where the students and staff worked really hard. The day started with a long pool session (4hrs) where we developed the students final skills of the PADI open water diver course. After the students had mastered all the skills we ran through a drysuit orientation (DSO). The DSO is designed to give a diver the opportunity to experience the buoyancy characteristics of a drysuit before going to open water for the first time. If you would like to have a splash in a drysuit why not give the centre a call and see when our next drysuit orientation is in the pool and if you enjoy the session why not treat yourself to the PADI Drysuit Specaitly. | | |
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| | Pool Session | |
| By Alex Varnals onWednesday, March 19, 2008 8:07 PM | |
| The pool session this evening consisted of Divemaster Skill Circuits,
Drysuit Orientations and a Discover Scuba Diving experience.
Mike ran the Divemaster session and as it was a mixture of experiences
the session focused on a teaching the students new demonstration
techniques to help improve their abilities.
Lisa conducted the Discover Scuba Diving with Michelle, who has now
decided to complete her PADI Open Water diver course with us here at
Diving Leisure Leeds.
Alex and Andrew were put through their paces in working with dry suits
for the first time. With fin pivots and hovers being the focus of
this session. It was also an opportunity for the guys to practice
removing their BCD and weight belt at the surface in a dry suit with
gloves on, not an easy task the first time you do it...
If you would like to come along to one of our pool sessions, simply contact Alex or Kat at the ... | | |
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| | TDI - Technical Diving International - NOW AVAILABLE @ Diving Leisure Leeds | |
| By Alex Varnals onTuesday, March 18, 2008 9:56 PM | |
| Diving Leisure Leeds are now pleased to offer TDI techincal diving courses. These programs are now able to be taught by Alex Varnals and Mike Fell. For more advanced techincal programs taught in the UK we are pleased to introduce Dave & Guy. If you don't fancy carrying out your course here in the UK why not join us with our TDI Instructors who live in Dahab, Egypt, Kevin Evans, Tom Steiner and Leigh Cunningham. For those of you not familiar with TDI, it is the largest technical certification agency in the world. As one of the first agencies to provide training in mixed gas diving and rebreathers, TDI is seen as an innovator of new diving techniques and programs which previously were not available to the general public. Training with TDI has provided divers with the opportunity to see such wrecks as the Andrea Doria, Luisitania and the Prince of Wales. TDI divers have explored underwater ... | | |
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| | Fourth Element SubXero - IN STOCK NOW | |
| By Alex Varnals onMonday, March 17, 2008 10:52 PM | |
| We are pleased to announce that the long awaited Fourth Element SubXero has finally arrived. After months of anticipation it is here. The warmest undersuit ever released for under a tri-laminate (membrane) dry suits is now available. We have one of every size currently avaialable, however this is one hot product and it is moving very fast. The best thing about the new SubXero is that it comes in two parts, a jacket and a salopette and come in the following sizes:: - Small
- Medium (Short)
- Medium
- Large (Short)
- Large
- Extra Large (Short)
- Extra Large
- Extra Extra Large (Short)
- Extra Extra Large
Even better still is that you can mix and match sizes for the best combination for you. The jacket can also be worn as an ... | | |
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| | Nitrox and Trimix Blending Panel Now Installed | |
| By Alex Varnals onTuesday, February 26, 2008 9:26 PM | |
| After a couple of weeks with the compressor being paritaly, we are now proud to announce that our new filtration system has now been installed. We also have a new manifold bar & gas blending panel which has been installed in the retail area of the dive centre. This means we can now offer oxygen clean air, nitrox, trimix and in the not too distant future Argon. We have a few bits of pipework still to plumb in, but the new parts are now in. This means we will be able to fill upto four air cylinders AND one NITROX/TRIMIX fill at the same time. Did we mention we now offer NITROX AND TRIMIX? If you want any further information about our gas blending facilites, please give us a call or drop in and Alex will be pleased to give you the guided tour. | | |
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| | NEW Filtration System has arrived | |
| By Alex Varnals onMonday, February 25, 2008 6:45 PM | |
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We have just received a NEW Filtration System for our current compressor. This new filtration system is big. Really big. For the techies out there, it will be able to filter upto 2 million litres of air before changing the filters... Thats alot of gas. It will also mean that ALL the gas we will pumping is oxygen compatible and sqeaky clean. For those of you really interested in small technical details we have a 300 bar whip, however we will only be running the compressor to around 250 - 260 bar for the moment. The compressor will be pumping upto 300 bar (plus) by Autumn 2008 if there is demand for it. Let us know if you require 300 bar fills. | | |
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