Club Diver/Ocean Diver

This course provides you with the essential knowledge and skills needed to prepare for open water diving. Learning to dive is all about learning to use your equipment properly and safely. The Ocean Diver training course concentrates on preparing you for this in the safety of a swimming pool or sheltered water and then introducing you to open water in a controlled and safe manner. This also gives you the opportunity to practice safety skills in the company of a qualified instructor or experienced diver.

Sports Diver

In Sports Diver training, the emphasis is on building a sound foundation of open water diving skills and experience through a series of structured practical lessons. Once you have gained this open water experience with a qualified instructor, you are ready to take part in dives with other Sports Divers or those of higher grades.

Dive Leader

Dive Leader training concentrates on the responsibilities and safety aspects of leading other divers on an open water dive. Practical lessons in rescue management and rescue skills will give you the confidence and ability to deal with those unforeseen emergencies. Leading a dive will develop your enjoyment, confidence and experience as a diver.

Advanced

The Advanced Diver course further develops your knowledge and skills. You will gain experience in planning and organizing dives at different sites and under different circumstances. Additional experience will be gained in using small boats, chartwork. navigation and many other related skills. The BSAC consider this grade a fully trained diver.

Oxygen Administration

Entry requirement - Club/Ocean Diver

The value of oxygen in the first aid treatment of decompression sickness is well established. An A to Z course on equipment and techniques.
The aim of this one day course is to teach the administration of Oxygen as a means of increasing the effectiveness of the first aid treatment of diving accidents. The course requires no prior knowledge of oxygen equipment but up to date knowledge of diving related disorders and their symptoms is necessary. This is a mandatory course for the BSAC Advanced Diver qualification.

Boat Handling

Designed to give you an insight into the safe handling of small boats. Seamanship, tides and the weather. Boat handling is one of the most popular courses for divers.
This course is designed to give members with little or no previous experience an insight into the safe use of small power boats, the equipment they should carry and a knowledge of seamanship, tides and weather which govern their safe use.
A course syllabus is recognized training for the BSAC Diver Cox'n Certificate. This is one of the optional courses for BSAC Advanced Diver qualification.

compressor

A one day course designed to instruct members in the safe and correct procedures for operating a high pressure air compressor; for filling cylinders from a compressor or from an air storage bank; and for good compressor management.

Nitrox Diver

Understand the subject of Enriched Air Nitrox diving. This comprehensive course covers the safety aspects of using Nitrox, mixing and analysis and the management and organization of dives using Nitrox.
A one day course of classroom studies to teach Sports Diver how to use Nitrox 32 and 36 mixes for no-stop dives. Students are taught how to use the BSAC Nitrox Decompression Tables, and how to analyze gas mixes. Success in the assessments qualifies the member as a BSAC Nitrox Diver. The comprehensive student pack supplies candidates with the Nitrox Diver Workbook and Nitrox Decompression Tables; and if they pass the assessments, all certification