Brentwood Selo Club Open Water training/diving – Saturday the 11th of October 2025
On Saturday the 11th of October Brentwood Selo returned to the dive site at Leybourne Lakes in Kent. Although limited to a maximum depth of 10 meters it is ideally set up in close proximity (under an hour away) for introducing divers to open water and provides opportunities for training Ocean Divers, instructors under training, buoyancy and dry suit skills. The diving area is in a dedicated lake within the Leybourne Lakes country park with a separate dedicated access, good parking facilities, nearby toilets (Portaloo) and a secured lake access point. The club has access to combinations for the access gate, toilets and diving area and, subject to booking, can use the facility at any time (including night diving). During normal day hours there is a café and toilets a short drive away at the Leybourne Water Sports centre. The cost for divers is £14 per day with BSAC Open Water Instructors gaining free admission. Dependant on traffic at the Elizabeth Bridge the journey time to the Lakes is about 50 minutes from Brentwood.
This dive was organised and managed by Neil Newland by our brand new Open Water Instructor, Jim Goldsmith, and Dave Roast and David Harvey on surface cover. The club carried out a total of 26 dives, 146 minutes under water, successfully completing five Ocean Diver open water modules 001 and four modules 002. All progressing well to completing their Ocean Diver qualification. It was good to see that four qualified Ocean Divers joined us exploring the far reaches of the lake and finding the two cars, one with at headless skeleton at the wheel (which we will add to our site map).
A really productive day. Congratulations to our four Ocean Divers under training Dean, Mellisa, Adam, Ian, Sarah and Rob, our qualified divers Mark, George, Skye and Mitchel. Our two instructors in the water Neil and Jim, shore cover Dave and David and our all-round helper Christine. A special thanks to our Public Relations Officer, Bob , for turning up with his drone to catch some special shots of the day. Thanks go to the training team for their support and all the divers for attending whether progressing their training or just getting wet on another dive.
The club is planning to organise training for dives 003 & 004 Ocean Diver training so please watch out for the club updates.
Are you going on the next club dive? Why not take a picture, add a write up, and pass it onto our PR guru Bob Willis for inclusion on the club website.
If you would like to come and have a try dive just Let Us Know
Dive Safely,
David Harvey
Club Chairman
Brentwood Selo Sub Aqua Club BSAC 177
