Gap Year Diving Programmes from Xtreme Gap Year.

 

 

Spending your gap year diving is a great way to stay put and become integrated with a place during your gap year.

With lots of different gap year diving programmes to choose from Xtreme Gap can help your find the most idyllic location to spend several sun drenched months, whiling away your gap year as you learn to dive in some of the most amazing underwater environments the world has to offer.

Diving is not for everyone, but for those that love the feeling of pure weightlessness, accompanied by the huge sense of adventure that comes with every dive, the completing a gap year diving course can be very appealing.

For those interested in gap year diving, there are several levels to which you can train. The basics being an open water course or the Advanced open water course. Completing these gap year diving courses will allow you to dive to depths of 18 metres and 30 metres respectively. This is great is you want to try our diving or just become a casual diver diving on holidays and every once in a while, but if you wanted to spend longer mastering scuba diving and really indulge your passion for gap year diving, then you should look to do more. The next step up the PADI training ladder is the rescue course, this is relatively expensive compared to the open water and advanced, but a necessary step all the same.

Once you have completed you rescue course you can then consider doing the ultimate gap year diver course. The Divemaster course. Competing your Divemaster qualification is the first professional level diving qualification and excellent for your gap year. Once you have completed your training, you can work in the diving industry and get paid on your gap year! The real beauty of the divemaster course (especially the Thailand Divemaster course) on offer through Xtreme Gap Year is that you are able to spend up to 12 weeks diving every day. Imagine living on a tropical island and diving every day! The Divemaster programme is the time when you really become a competent diver, comfortable underwater and learning how to safeguard others under the water.

Another fantastic gap year diving option is to complete the Xtreme Gap Year underwater videography course. This enables you to work as an underwater camera man, and consists of a 3 month internship, training you in filming the marine environment. The beauty of this is you also get paid during the course!

Whatever you want to do on your gap year, especially if you want to do it underwater, talk to Xtreme Gap Year about out diving options, with our range of best value gap year diving programmes, we are sure to be able to help you on your way to enjoying you gap year diving in some of the most incredible marine environments. As a company set up and run by professionally qualified divers, you will be in good hands starting your gap year diving adventure.