There are many different things you can do in your Gap Year. Diving can make up part or all of your Gap Year depending on what you want to do. Dive The Gap offer a range of programmes from 3 weeks all the way up to 6 months.

Adventure programme cover basic diving skills usually bringing you up to the level of a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver. They usually include a plethora of different diving activities including visitin shipwrecks and underwater national parks to provide you with all the underwater life experience that you want.

Professional programme build up on this further. They ultimately train you to become a scuba diving professional. Someone who can work in the dive industry. Our professional programme are essentially enormous work experience packages. With Divemaster Training, in tandem with an instructor you conduct every activity a real professional would do. The Instructor Development Courses go further still putting you in situations where you are teaching people how to dive. At the end not only do you have professional qualifications, you have all the experience you need to work anywhere in the world. We often take on a couple of our trainees when we are busy and offer team teaching and work experience packages to others.

Diving can be used as a means of travelling round the world on your Gap Year, funding it with your professional diver qualifications. This is extremely popular and many of a trained Divemaster’s do exactly this. Also professional diver qualifications carry considerable wait with universities and employers alike. A Level 3 vocational qualification can be attained by any PADI professional. This is a mark of distinction that shows your leadership and managerial abilities.