New Dawn Dive Centre, Surrey & Hampshire's leading PADI 5* Dive centre's was founded by Richard Rimmer in 1988, a qualified instructor with PADI who has been diving since 1979. The dive centre is named after a first world war steam drifter, the previously undiscovered wreck of which Richard found off the Isle of Wight. The 'New Dawn' was engaged in minesweeping duties for the Royal Navy when she struck a mine and sank