Beyond Ocean Diver — Training with BSAC

 

Once you have completed your BSAC Ocean Diver course (or if you joined the club at a higher level), the Bass Strait Aquatic Club offers the full range of BSAC UK diving qualifications. Each level prepares you to expand your diving horizons and take on more challenging dives. We also run a range of diving skills courses.

Diving Qualifications

BSAC Sport Diver:

The next step from Ocean Diver, qualified BSAC Sport Divers can dive as deep as 35 metres and conduct dives requiring decompression stops. Sport Divers can also begin instructor training if they wish.
 

BSAC Dive Leader:

With enhanced rescue and dive organising skills, BSAC Dive Leaders are qualified to dive as deep as 50 metres and to lead beginners on their early dives. Dive Leader is the minimum grade for Open Water Instructors.
 

BSAC Advanced Diver:

The BSAC Advanced Diver has advanced rescue and organising skills, broad diving knowledge and is equipped to organise diving in unfamiliar and challenging locations. You must be a BSAC Advanced Diver to take the BSAC Advanced Instructor exam.

To learn how you can achieve one of these qualifications, please contact our Training Officer.

Skill Development Courses

Skill development courses broaden your diving knowledge and often count toward diving qualifications. These are just some of the courses we organise in the club or with the help of the BSAC region:

Nitrox:

We firmly believe that Nitrox offers a simple way to safer diving, reducing the risk of decompression ilness. Basic Nitrox is now included in the Ocean Diver and Sport Diver courses by BSAC. We offer supplementray Nitrox Courses for people wihout a Nitrox qualification and Advanced Nitrox and Extended Range Courses for those wishing to use multiple nitrox mixes for safety or accelerated decompression.
 

Boat Handling, Chartwork, Advanced Diving Techniques:

Prepare for an active role in dive planning or set out to discover fantastic new dives.
 

Lifesaving, Oxygen Administration, First Aid, Rescue Management:

These courses will equip you to deal with an incident (be it diving or otherwise), if the worst should happen.
 

Instructor Development:

There are a range of instructor courses, beginning with the Instructor Foundation Course (IFC).

To learn about the skills development courses suitable for you, please contact our Training Officer.

Technical Diving

BSAC offer a new range of technical diving courses, for those wishing to push their limits and dive beyond the range of other divers.

Extended Range Diving:

BSAC offers the Extended Range Diving course which teaches the use of Nitrox for accelerated decompression. For Sport Divers and above, enabling depth progression to 50 metres.
 

Sports Mixed Gas:

BSAC offers this courses for Sport Divers and above wishing to dive down to 50 metre depth using Trimix.
 

Normoxic Mixed Gas:

A supplement to the Sports Mixed Gas course to extend your Trimix diving range down to 60 metres.
 

Advanced Mixed Gas:

For experienced divers wanting to dive to 80 metres using Trimix.

To learn how you can be helped by the BSAC technical training programme, please contact our Training Officer.

For more information about the complete BSAC training programmes please see BSAC Diver Training.

Come Diving with BSAC