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Yes, and your logbook. Any centre that does not ask for both is a centre to think twice about.

A photograph of the card on your phone is fine. If you have lost it, most agencies can reissue it online in a day and we will help you do it at the counter.

Then book the refresher hour in the pool. We suggest it to anybody past twelve months and insist past three years.

It is not a sales tactic. What goes rusty first is mask clearing and weighting, and finding that out in a pool is far better than finding it out on a wall in a current.

Two dives, tanks, weights, two guides in the water, fruit, water and tea. Ten divers at most.

A jacket, regulator, mask and fins are the equipment package, and a computer and wetsuit are hired separately. Bring your own mask if you own one.

If you have twenty logged dives, a reef hook and a computer you can read, yes. If not, not this week, and we will say so even if you are annoyed about it.

The current is the entire point of that dive and it is no place to be finding out how your buoyancy is.

Four days: theory, five pool sessions and four dives from the boat. Four students to an instructor and we will not run five.

If you need a fifth morning in the pool you get one at no extra charge. The course takes as long as it takes.

Yes. Our instructors are certified with an internationally recognised training agency and the card you leave with is accepted at any centre in the world.

The standards are not ours to change. What we decide is the ratio, the pace and whether you are ready, and on the last one we are harder than most.