Dive With Us
Learn to Dive
Learn to dive in Bristol, and get your PADI scuba diving certification! If you’ve always wanted to learn how to scuba dive, our team of enthuseastic, experienced instructors will help you every step of the way.
With Bristol based pool dives and a variety of open water dive locations to choose from, take your PADI course with us and discover how much fun you can have when scuba diving.
The PADI Open Water Diver course is the world’s most popular scuba course, and has introduced millions of people to the adventurous diving lifestyle.
Go Diving
Learning to dive is just the start of your adventure! Continue to dive with us as a member of Hidden Depths Dive Club and travel around the UK and overseas to visit amazing places and enjoy superb diving.
We offer regular events for divers of all qualification and experience levels from relaxing shore dives to deeper technical trips. You can also join one of our fantastic holidays to world class dive destinations abroad.
Children's Diving
Everyone involved with Hidden Depths Scuba School are very proud that we are recognised as a PADI Approved Youth Training Centre. This rating is awarded to centres who show dedication to training young scuba divers and can prove they uphold the highest levels of child protection.
We offer Bubblemaker & Seal Team courses to children aged 8 and above, using specific children's scuba kit, to give them a fantastic start to their scuba diving journey!
Our Team
Meet Our Dive Team
Greg Parker
Greg is a PADI Master Instructor and the owner of Hidden Depths Scuba School. He is always in the water diving, either teaching or diving for the pure enjoyment. Enjoys teaching all courses, but especially introducing new people to the world of scuba!
Collette Young
Collette is an excellent diver and instructor, although she isn't currently teaching whilst focusing on her studies as a Student Paramedic. Collette loves nothing more than diving with seals, and will still be joining in with club trips alongside her studies.
Robin Bjoroy
Robin is always keen to get in the water, anytime, anyplace and almost any conditions, whether it be on a club dive, teaching inland or at the coast or in a holiday destination. Robin is also a qualified boat skipper, so when not diving he may be taking others to sea!
Wayne Rawle
Wayne is a brilliant diver who is always happy to pass on his dive knowldge and skills. Regularly spotted diving his twinset around the South Coast! Awarded a PADI Certificate of Excellence in 2022 for his teaching.
Ondrej Klos
Ondrej is most passionate about technical diving, wrecks, diving physiology and travelling to distant locations.
He has done most of his diving outside the UK with highlights like Hawaii, Borneo, Egypt, Mexico, Bahamas, Malta, Maldives, Indonesia and Iceland. His absolute favourites are liveaboards in tropical shark waters!
Rob Campbell
Rob is most at home when scuba diving, and has experience diving in many different equipment styles from single cylinder right through to rebreathers! Take a course with Rob and you know you're going to have fun and learn lots.
Jess Schroder
Jess is an active member of the Hidden Depths team, and is a familair face at pool nights and training days! When not assisting students, Jess is progressing with her technical diving qualifications, and is looking forward to another ice diving trip in the future!
Phil Lee
Phil has a wealth of diving experience from all around the world, having dived amazing overseas destinations such as Mexico and Belieze. Phil is often found on club trips, and never misses a chance to bring his lovely dog along on camping events too!
Gill Johnson
Gill is one of our longest serving Divemasters, and with a background in swim instruction is a very helpful member of the team!
Gill enjoys working with students in the pool and open water, as well as travelling to many fantastic dive destinations both in the UK and overseas.
Mike Colbourn
Mike has been diving for many years, and recently decided to become a Divemaster and join our professional team. Mike brings lots of experience from diving around the world, as well as lots of UK dives too.
Mike enjoys diving with his son and exploring around the UK coastline as well as dive trips overseas!
Gavin Williams
Gavin can often be found diving on club trips, both here in the UK and overseas! He loves scuba diving and helping others learn.
Gavin has extensive experience diving around Malta and Gozo, and is happy to offer advice to anyone planning a trip to this area!
Tom Withers
Tom's passion for diving was ignited during a remarkable trip to South East Asia. It was there he first learned to dive and instantly became enamored with the underwater world. Upon returning to the UK, Tom completed his DM certification with our team. Now, he's dedicated to inspiring others to explore and appreciate the wonders of the underwater world, just as he did.
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