Arrive-dive-leave: a cautious reopening of inland dive sites

As diving returns to UK shores, so the likelihood arose that inland dive centres would also find ways to operate with new protocols for social distancing.

While the coast provides the aspirational heartland of British diving, the inland sites are still crucial for training schedules, shakedown dives and the pure pleasure of getting wet.

Each centre has its own schedule for reopening and its own method of accepting payments and organising visitors, so we encourage readers to carefully check thoroughly with the organisation in question before visiting. This is especially important as several centres are open only to their own registered members, or are only opening to divers on certain days or hours.

Most of them are trying to encourage an efficient turnover of visitors with minimum scope for confusion, crowding or contact. This has been summed up with the mantra ‘arrive-dive-leave’.

Below is a summary of inland sites and their status at the time of this blog post being published; for anyone planning a visit do take the time to visit the website, read the rules and call to be sure.