OCEAN TURTLE DIVING LIMITED
Company number 05197464 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Ocean Turtle Diving Limited has successfully transformed from a technically insolvent position in 2015-2016 to a stable, net-asset-positive business leveraging its premium PADI 5-star Career Development Centre accreditation as a genuine competitive moat. However, the 2024 financial softening—declining net current assets, eroding fixed assets, and rising current liabilities—signals that the business model is approaching a strategic inflection point where incremental improvements will be insufficient to drive meaningful growth. The path forward requires diversifying revenue through digital commerce, professional training pipelines, and dive travel packages while urgently addressing key-person dependency and working capital management to protect the hard-won gains of the past decade.
Shareholders' funds
£47,783
Balance sheet as at 2024-12-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2004-08-04
- Employees
- 5 (2024 accounts)
- Registered office
- Unit 16 Hassocks Wood Business Centre, Stroudley Road, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG24 8UQ
- Postcode
- RG24 8UQ
- Capital
- 100 GBP
- Accounts category
- Micro
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2024-12-31
- Next due by
- 2026-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-08-04
- Next due by
- 2027-08-18
Nature of business (SIC)
- 47640 Retail sale of sports goods, fishing gear, camping goods, boats and bicycles
- 93199 Other sports activities
Officers 1 current · 8 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z2046343 (Tier 1), registered since 2010.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- oceanturtlediving.com
- Phone
- +441256819595, 0743098251
Ocean Turtle is a PADI 5-Star Career Development Centre in London, Hampshire and Spain offering PADI scuba diving courses, open water certification, advanced dives, guided dive trips, dive equipment, PADI lessons and dive holidays for all levels of divers
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| BLUE TURTLE DIVING LIMITED | 2007-12-03 |
Previous registered addresses 3
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 196 KEMPSHOTT LANE, BASINGSTOKE, HAMPSHIRE, RG22 5LB | 2013-08-05 |
| 196 KEMPSHOTT LANE, BASINGSTOKE, HAMPSHIRE, RG22 5LB | 2005-08-17 |
| 5 JUPITER HOUSE, CALLEVA PARK, READING, BERKS, RG7 8NN | 2005-02-21 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 68 similar companies in RG
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (5 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2004.
Competitors Reading
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3. ORBEA UK LTD
This company ranks 15 among retail sale of sports goods, fishing gear, camping goods, boats and bicycles in Reading.
The class of 2004
37%
of the 135,818 companies incorporated in 2004 are still active today; 60% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.