Diving at Leybourne – Covid 19 - Professional Dive Schools Only

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Please bring anti-bac wipes, hand sanitiser ,or gloves for disinfecting of all locks

• and hands

• Submit the Out of Hours booking- in form via email prior to your visit

• All payments via bank transfer

• Dive operators must have an amended RA that complies with PADI or Other NGB Training Agencies

• Standards regarding Covid -19 recommendations and requirements.

• Dive operators can only access the back lake

• Dive operators have their own signed for key

• Use of the contained toilet-only one person at a time

• Social distancing - pre dive safety check (as per organization guidelines)

• You must follow the normal safety protocol issued by your training organization, and any special guidance

• provided by them regarding Covid-19

• Underwater, social distancing is not needed

• The use of alternate air source (as per organization guidelines)

• No buddy breathing is allowed

• Maximum of 21 people using rear car park and divers lake at any one time complying with social distancing

• East entrance to the water’s edge maximum 4 persons at any one time

• North entrance to the water’s edge maximum of 4 persons at any one time

• Disinfecting of equipment (as per organization guidelines)

• In water rescue (as per organization guidelines)

• All Staff should have rescue breathing masks (reduce Covid-19 transmission)

• Divers and staff must accept that responding to a real-life emergency may elevate disease transmission risk

• All dive schools MUST notify by text or phone call to confirm safe exit and site is secure

• Shore cover to make sure the gated entrance to the divers area is secure at all times and lock disinfected before and after use

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Resources and References – Covid 19
PADI – Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI EMEA)
BDSG- British Diving Safety Group
DAN – Divers Alert Network
NGB – National Governing Body

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