Bristol Channel Divers
SDCs
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This is a list of the SDCs supported by BSAC. Bristol Channel Divers arrange these courses from time to time, at the request of our members. Taking these courses extends your diving knowledge and adds interest to your diving and can even save the life of a fellow diver if you have received the appropriate training.
BSAC HQ maintain a list of course dates.
The minimum qualifications required to take each course are shown at the end of each description.
DIVING SKILLS
Advanced Diving Techniques
2 day course which includes practical diving sessions, introduces and builds
on existing knowledge in the preparation and use of appropriate equipment for
more challenging types of diving such as wreck dives and dives involving decompression.
Min: Sports Diver + 20 dives
Advanced Lifesaver Award
Members who hold the BSAC Lifesaver Award (and ideally Practical Rescue Management
and First Aid for Divers certificates) may apply to take this award. This is
a one-day examination that includes a theory test and a practical evaluation
of open water rescue skills.
Min: Sports Diver + Lifesaver
Advanced Nitrox Diver
This is the follow-up course to Nitrox Diver and teaches use of Nitrox mixes
up to Nitrox50 and its use as a decompression gas.
Min: Sports Diver + Nitrox Diver + 20 dives
Boat Handling
An introduction to the safe use of small power boats.
Min: Open (BSAC members only)
Chartwork and Position Fixing
A two-day course to teach the basic techniques of marine navigation.
Min: Open
Combined Nitrox
A two-day course that combines BSAC Nitrox Diver and Advanced Nitrox Diver courses.
Min: Sports Diver + 20 Dives
Compressor Operation
One-day course to learn how to get the best from a compressor.
Min: Sports Diver
Disability Awareness
A course designed to give divers confidence about including people with disabilities
within their diving activities.
Min: Sports Diver + 20 dives
Dive Planning and Marshalling
Aimed at potential Dive Leaders and Advanced Divers, this two-day course introduces
and extends existing knowledge and practical skills for planning and marshalling
dives.
Min: Sports Diver
Diver Cox’n
Having completed the Boat Handling course and having gained further experience,
this assessment proves your competence as a dive boat Cox'n.
Min: Boat Handling + experience
Diver Rescue Specialist
Not a course but on completion of Lifesaver, Advanced Lifesaver, Practical Rescue
Management, First Aid for Divers and Oxygen Administration members can apply
for the Diver Rescue Specialist Award.
Diving Operations Specialist
Not a course but on completion of Dive Planning & Marshalling, Advanced
Diving Techniques, Search & Recovery, Compressor Operation and Equipment
Care members can apply for the Diving Operations Specialist Award.
Drysuit training
A night in the pool where we'll show you some of the techniques required for
diving in a drysuit.
Min: Ocean Diver
Equipment Care
Learn how to prolong the life of your diving equipment, how to diagnose problems,
what you can repair and what should be left to the experts.
Min: Open
Extended Range Diving
To undertake this course you need to be a Sports Diver and have taken the Advanced
Nitrox Diver SDC. This three-day course promotes efficient, successful and safe
deeper diving techniques.
Min: Sports Diver + Advanced Nitrox Diver
First Aid for Divers
One day course looking at first aid from a diver's perspective and deals specifically
with diving and snorkeling-related injuries.
Min: Ocean Diver
Full Face Masks
Course covering the construction, advantages and disadvantages of full face
masks for recreational and technical diving. It also provides practical training
in pool conditions in the use of a variety of makes of mask.
Min: Sports Diver
Lifesaver Award
The first step in BSAC lifesaver training.
Min: Ocean Diver
Marine Biology
This 2-day course aims to thoroughly familiarise divers with methods of classification
and identification of marine organisms and to give elementary knowledge of the
interaction between organisms and their environment.
Min: Open
Marine Life Identification
Involving both diving and laboratory studies, this course introduces you to
marine life and how different marine species are classified and identified.
Min: Sports Diver
Nautical Archaeology
Courses run by the Nautical Archaeology Society are recognised by BSAC, upon
completion, with the award of the Nautical Archaeology Certificate (cost £3
from HQ). If you are interested in obtaining training in underwater archaeological
techniques contact the Nautical Archaeology Society at Fort Cumberland, Fort
Cumberland Road, Eastney, Portsmouth, PO4 9LD, Tel: 023 9281 8419 or email:
nas@nasportsmouth.org.uk
Nitrox Diver
A one day classroom course on the use of Nitrox 32% & 36% mixes for no stop
dives; use of the BSAC Nitrox Decompression Tables and how to analyse gas mixes.
See also Combined Nitrox and Advanced Nitrox courses.
Min: Ocean Diver
Outboard and Boat Maintenance
A one-day course looking at the design and operation of outboard engines, owner
servicing, fault finding and rectification. It also covers care of the boat
hull and trailer.
Min: Open
Oxygen Administration
The aim of this course is to teach the administration of oxygen as a means of
increasing the effectiveness of first aid treatment of diving accidents. The
course requires no pre-knowledge of oxygen equipment but does necessitate the
student having current knowledge of diving related disorders and their symptoms.
Min: Ocean Diver
Practical Rescue Management
A one-day course deigned to develop dive rescue knowledge and skills using on
land and in water practical sessions to teach the management of rescue situations.
Min: Sports Diver
Rebreather Awareness
An introduction to rebreathers via classroom and pool sessions.
Min: Sports Diver + Advanced Nitrox
Rescue First Aid
This course introduces more advanced first aid skills such as use of bag resuscitators,
intubation and neck stabilisation. It also provides refresher training for holders
of BSAC First Aid for Divers and Oxygen Administration certificates. The course
concludes with a practical assessment and those who reach the required standard
will receive the BSAC Rescue First Aid award.
Min: Sports Dive + First Aid for Divers + Oxygen Administration
Seamanship Specialist
On completion of Boat Handling, Diver Cox'n, Chartwork & Position Fixing
and Outboard & Boat Maintenance courses, members can apply for this award.
Search and Recovery
A 2-day course to instruct members in underwater search techniques and safe
procedures for using buoyancy for lifting and recovering objects from the seabed
and bringing them ashore.
Min: Sports Diver
Short Range Radio Certificate Course GMDSS
Due to the recent changes in the assessment of this course, BSAC is no longer
able to offer this course. Most RYA schools run these courses. BCD members may
wish to talk to Simon or Fiona who already hold this licence.
Underwater Photography
This course will acquaint members, who should have a basic understanding of
photographic processes and techniques, with the specific problems of underwater
photography and how they can be overcome with special apparatus and techniques.
Min: Sports Diver
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