Upcoming Events

React Right - Saturday 22 Feb, 9:30 am - 5 pm

22 Feb
React Right - 22nd February

Be prepared for an emergency with our React Right Course!

React Right is SSI’s emergency first response course. It provides you with in-depth first aid training and knowledge to act as a first responder in any medical emergency including a diving emergency. 

The SSI React Right Certification is a theory-based course - online and in-person with lots of practical applications in our well stocked classroom. 

To see the topics you will cover and to book on click here

Once you book on we will be in contact to arrange your course and assign you to the course. 

If you have done this course before then you need to book onto our React Right - Recertification. 

Any questions please contact us. 


React Right Reactivate - Saturday 22 Feb, 9:30 am - 5 pm

22 Feb
React Right Reactivate - 22nd February 2025

You have done it before but it is important to stay fresh and prepared  for an emergency with our React Right Reactivate Course!

React Right is SSI’s emergency first response course. It provides you with in-depth first aid training and knowledge to act as a first responder in any medical emergency including a diving emergency. It is recommended you keep your skills fresh every 2 years which is why we have the reactivate course. 

The SSI React Right Reactivation reminds you to relook at the online materials and attend an in-person session with lots of practical applications to refresh your first aid skills in our well stocked classroom. 

For more information and to book on click here. 


Swimming Pool - Tuesday 25 Feb, 7.15 pm - 9 pm

25 Feb
Swimming Pool - 24th September 2024
Our weekly pool sessions are on Tuesday evenings at Ipswich High School, Woolverstone, Suffolk. IP9 1AZ arriving at 7.15pm, getting in the water for 7.30pm. Join us for a course, or to just get in the water and blow some bubbles, snorkel or even have a swim. Booking is necessary click here to reserve your place or please contact us. For courses we need at least 1 weeks notice..

Scuba Skill Update - Tuesday 25 Feb, 7.15 pm - 9 pm

25 Feb
Scuba Skill Update - 25th February 2025

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Not dived for a while?
Need to practice before your open water training dives?

With the Ipswich Scuba Skills Update, we will get you back in the water and diving with ease in no time. Our scuba refresher course allows you to review and practice the scuba skills you learned in your Open Water Diver program, under the guidance of a Professional. This is a great course to take just before a dive holiday, so you spend less time worrying about your skills and more time admiring the marine life.

If you are a non-certified Open Water Diver student, a Scuba Skills Update is ideal for practicing your dive skills before your open water training dives. With no fixed course duration, you can take your time and focus on the skills you need help with.

Boost your dive confidence and practice your skills with a Scuba Skills Update.

To book or for more information visit our Scuba Skills Update page or contact us.


Swimming Pool - Tuesday 4 Mar, 7.15 pm - 9 pm

4 Mar
Swimming Pool - 4th March 2025
Our weekly pool sessions are on Tuesday evenings at Ipswich High School, Woolverstone, Suffolk. IP9 1AZ arriving at 7.15pm, getting in the water for 7.30pm. Join us for a course, or to just get in the water and blow some bubbles, snorkel or even have a swim. Booking is necessary click here to reserve your place or please contact us. For courses we need at least 1 weeks notice.

Try Scuba - Tuesday 4 Mar, 7:15 pm - 9 pm

4 Mar
Try Scuba  - 4th March 2025

Have you ever thought about what it is like to scuba dive? 

Then Our Try Scuba is for you!

Our Try Scuba programme is the best way to try scuba diving and experience the magical underwater world for the first time. You will be in confined water and well looked after by your instructor, so you can enjoy those first unforgettable breaths underwater and experience the magic of scuba diving. At the end of this 90-minute session, you will have earned our Try Scuba recognition card, which we register with SSI and undoubtedly you will want to go diving again.

To book on, for more information and to see what is included, visit our try scuba page.


Swimming Pool - Tuesday 11 Mar, 7.15 pm - 9 pm

11 Mar
Swimming Pool - 11th March 2025
Our weekly pool sessions are on Tuesday evenings at Ipswich High School, Woolverstone, Suffolk. IP9 1AZ arriving at 7.15pm, getting in the water for 7.30pm. Join us for a course, or to just get in the water and blow some bubbles, snorkel or even have a swim. Booking is necessary click here to reserve your place or please contact us. For courses we need at least 1 weeks notice.

Open Water Diver - Tuesday 11 Mar, 7.15 pm - 9 pm

11 Mar
Open Water Diver - Starting Tuesday 11th March 2025

This globally recognized certification program is the best way to begin your lifelong adventures as a certified scuba diver.

With our personalised training, combined with theory, confined water and open water practice sessions, we will ensure you have the skills and experience required to become truly comfortable underwater and you will earn the SSI Open Water Diver certification.

For more information of the course details please visit our open water diver page. 

Dates for this program are scheduled as:

  1. Registration at shop before your course
  2. Confined Water Sessions - Tuesdays 7.15 pm - 9 pm at the swimming pool
    Tuesday 11th March
    Tuesday 18th March
    Tuesday 25th March
    Tuesday 1st April
    Tuesday 8th April
  3. Open Water weekend  - Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th April
  4. Theory session in shop - to be arranged. 

Scuba Skill Update - Tuesday 11 Mar, 7.15 pm - 9 pm

11 Mar

Not dived for a while?
Need to practice before your open water training dives?

With the Ipswich Scuba Skills Update, we will get you back in the water and diving with ease in no time. Our scuba refresher course allows you to review and practice the scuba skills you learned in your Open Water Diver program, under the guidance of a Professional. This is a great course to take just before a dive holiday, so you spend less time worrying about your skills and more time admiring the marine life.

If you are a non-certified Open Water Diver student, a Scuba Skills Update is ideal for practicing your dive skills before your open water training dives. With no fixed course duration, you can take your time and focus on the skills you need help with.

Boost your dive confidence and practice your skills with a Scuba Skills Update.

To book or for more information visit our Scuba Skills Update page or contact us.


Swimming Pool - Tuesday 18 Mar, 7.15 pm - 9 pm

18 Mar
Swimming Pool - 18th March 2025

Our weekly pool sessions are on Tuesday evenings at Ipswich High School, Woolverstone, Suffolk. IP9 1AZ arriving at 7.15pm, getting in the water for 7.30pm. Join us for a course, or to just get in the water and blow some bubbles, snorkel or even have a swim. Booking is necessary click here to reserve your place or please contact us. For courses we need at least 1 weeks notice.


Try Scuba - Tuesday 18 Mar, 7:15 pm - 9 pm

18 Mar
Try Scuba - 18th March 2025

Have you ever thought about what it is like to scuba dive? 

Then Our Try Scuba is for you!

Our Try Scuba program is the best way to try scuba diving and experience the magical underwater world for the first time. You will be in confined water and well looked after by your instructor, so you can enjoy those first unforgettable breaths underwater and experience the magic of scuba diving. At the end of this 90-minute session, you will have earned our Try Scuba recognition card, which we register with SSI and undoubtedly you will want to go diving again.

To book on, for more information and to see what is included, visit our try scuba page.


Swimming Pool - Tuesday 25 Mar, 7.15 pm - 9 pm

25 Mar
Swimming Pool -25th March 2025

Our weekly pool sessions are on Tuesday evenings at Ipswich High School, Woolverstone, Suffolk. IP9 1AZ arriving at 7.15pm, getting in the water for 7.30pm. Join us for a course, or to just get in the water and blow some bubbles, snorkel or even have a swim. Booking is necessary click here to reserve your place or please contact us. For courses we need at least 1 weeks notice.


Scuba Skill Update - Tuesday 25 Mar, 7.15 pm - 9 pm

25 Mar
Scuba Skill Update - 25th March 2025

Not dived for a while?
Need to practice before your open water training dives?

With the Ipswich Scuba Skills Update, we will get you back in the water and diving with ease in no time. Our scuba refresher course allows you to review and practice the scuba skills you learned in your Open Water Diver program, under the guidance of a Professional. This is a great course to take just before a dive holiday, so you spend less time worrying about your skills and more time admiring the marine life.

If you are a non-certified Open Water Diver student, a Scuba Skills Update is ideal for practicing your dive skills before your open water training dives. With no fixed course duration, you can take your time and focus on the skills you need help with.

Boost your dive confidence and practice your skills with a Scuba Skills Update.

To book or for more information visit our Scuba Skills Update page or contact us.


Scuba Explorer Starting 1st April 2025 - Tuesday 1 Apr, 7.15 pm - 9 pm

1 Apr
Scuba Explorer Starting 1st April 2025

Become an SSI Underwater Scuba Explorer with Ipswich Scuba Today!

The SSI Explorers program allows children from age 6 (for snorkeling, mermaid and freediving) and age 8 (for scuba diving) to go underwater and sample different ways they can explore the aquatic world around them. They will gain a solid foundation in ocean conservation and have the opportunity to experience four main aquatic adventures: snorkeling, scuba diving (age 8 and over), freediving, and swimming like a real mermaid. 

Besides fun for the whole family, your children will learn important life skills. These underwater adventures will enable young underwater enthusiasts to acquire important water skills, water confidence, key marine knowledge as well as improve their  self-esteem, and sense of responsibility. 

Click here for more information.


Decompression Diver - Saturday 12 Apr, 9.30 am - 1 pm

12 Apr
Decompression Diver - Starting 12th April 2025

The opportunities to expand your diving adventures have just got bigger!

The SSI Decompression Diving Specialty will teach you how to dive beyond the no-decompression limits. You will learn to plan and conduct dives to a maximum depth of 40 meters with limited decompression using your recreational total diving system and a single decompression cylinder. You will learn and practice how to effectively use your dive computer features, including switching gases, gas integration, time-to-reserve, and time-to-surface. Using these computer functions will become second nature, enabling you to safely conduct dives with limited decompression without hours of dive planning.

For more information visit our Decompression Diver Page

Dates for this program are as follows:

Saturday 12th April - Theory in classroom
Tuesday 15th April - Pool Session
Saturday 26th & Sunday 27th April - Open Water Dives at our Stoney Cove weekend. 


Come and dive North Norfolk with us - Sunday 8 Jun, 7:15 am - 5 pm

8 Jun
Come and dive North Norfolk with us - Saturday 8th June 2025

Hopefully, the weather will hold out and the visibility will be good for us to go diving the North Norfolk coast.

From the chalk reefs of Sherringham and East Runton to the Roasalie Wreck, we hope to enjoy 2 dives at 2 different sites for a day diving of the North Norfolk Coast.  For more information visit our Norfolk Diving Day Page

To register your interest so you get details nearer the time please contact us.


Rescue Skills Refresh - Tuesday 17 Jun, 7.15 pm - 9 pm

17 Jun
Rescue Skills Refresh - Tuesday 17th June 2025

You have done the Rescue course but are your skills still fresh in your mind?

Ipswich Scuba offers a 6 monthly refresher of rescue skills in the pool under the instruction of an instructor.

This is an opportunity for you to refresh and practice the important rescue skills you learned in your Rescue or Stress and Rescue Course under the guidance of an instructor in a safe environment making you a confident and better buddy should you ever need them.

The session takes place at our weekly pool session at Ipswich High School from 7:15 pm until 9:00 pm. The price is £35, including the session, equipment, and instructor guidance.

You may only wish to attend one course every now and then or join us every 6 months when we offer the course, it is up to you.


Come and Dive Norfolk with us - Saturday 2 Aug, 7:15 am - 5 pm

2 Aug
Come and Dive Norfolk with us - Saturday 2nd August

Hopefully, the weather will hold out and the visibility will be good for us to go diving the North Norfolk coast.

From the chalk reefs of Sherringham and East Runton to the Roasalie Wreck, we hope to enjoy 2 dives at 2 different sites for a day diving of the North Norfolk Coast.  For more information visit our Norfolk Diving Day Page

To register your interest so you get details nearer the time please contact us.


Scuba Explorer Starting 5th August 2025 - Tuesday 5 Aug, 7.15 pm - 9 pm

5 Aug
Scuba Explorer Starting 5th August 2025

Become an SSI Underwater Scuba Explorer with Ipswich Scuba Today!

The SSI Explorers program allows children from age 6 (for snorkeling, mermaid and freediving) and age 8 (for scuba diving) to go underwater and sample different ways they can explore the aquatic world around them. They will gain a solid foundation in ocean conservation and have the opportunity to experience four main aquatic adventures: snorkeling, scuba diving (age 8 and over), freediving, and swimming like a real mermaid. 

Besides fun for the whole family, your children will learn important life skills. These underwater adventures will enable young underwater enthusiasts to acquire important water skills, water confidence, key marine knowledge as well as improve their  self-esteem, and sense of responsibility. 

Click here for more information.


3 day diving Portland - Thursday 28 Aug-Sunday 21 August, 7:15 am - 5 pm

28 Aug
3 day diving Portland

Ipswich Scuba has teamed up with Sea Leopard to offer you 3 days diving the Jurassic coastline of Portland where you will find a abundance of reef and ledges which are home to a huge variety of marine life. 

Join us for 3 days of diving a haven for dive warships, submarines, old sailing ships there are plenty of wrecks to explore and with thriving life from dead mans fingers nudibranchs, octopus to seals;  you will not be disappointed. 

Visit out Portland page for more information.


Come and dive North Norfolk with us - Sunday 7 Sep, 7:15 am - 5 pm

7 Sep
Come and dive North Norfolk with us - Sunday 7th September 2025

Hopefully, the weather will hold out and the visibility will be good for us to go diving the North Norfolk coast.

From the chalk reefs of Sherringham and East Runton to the Roasalie Wreck, we hope to enjoy 2 dives at 2 different sites for a day diving of the North Norfolk Coast.  For more information visit our Norfolk Diving Day Page

To register your interest so you get details nearer the time please contact us.


Decompression Diver - Saturday 13 Sep, 9.30 am - 1 pm

13 Sep
Decompression Diver - Starting 13th September 2025

The opportunities to expand your diving adventures have just got bigger!

The SSI Decompression Diving Specialty will teach you how to dive beyond the no-decompression limits. You will learn to plan and conduct dives to a maximum depth of 40 meters with limited decompression using your recreational total diving system and a single decompression cylinder. You will learn and practice how to effectively use your dive computer features, including switching gases, gas integration, time-to-reserve, and time-to-surface. Using these computer functions will become second nature, enabling you to safely conduct dives with limited decompression without hours of dive planning.

For more information visit our Decompression Diver Page

Dates for this program are as follows:

Saturday 13th September - Theory in classroom
Tuesday 16th September - Pool Session
Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th September - Open Water Dives at our Stoney Cove weekend. 


Come and dive North Norfolk with us - Saturday 20 Sep, 7:15 am - 5 pm

20 Sep
Come and dive North Norfolk with us - Saturday 20th September 2025

Hopefully, the weather will hold out and the visibility will be good for us to go diving the North Norfolk coast.

From the chalk reefs of Sherringham and East Runton to the Roasalie Wreck, we hope to enjoy 2 dives at 2 different sites for a day diving of the North Norfolk Coast.  For more information visit our Norfolk Diving Day Page

To register your interest so you get details nearer the time please contact us.


Come and dive North Norfolk with us - Sunday 12 Oct, 7:15 am - 5 pm

12 Oct
Come and dive North Norfolk with us - Sunday 12th October 2025

Hopefully, the weather will hold out and the visibility will be good for us to go diving the North Norfolk coast.

From the chalk reefs of Sherringham and East Runton to the Roasalie Wreck, we hope to enjoy 2 dives at 2 different sites for a day diving of the North Norfolk Coast.  For more information visit our Norfolk Diving Day Page

To register your interest so you get details nearer the time please contact us.