BSAC Courses

BSAC Ocean Diver

If you’re keen to learn to dive, the BSAC’s Ocean Diver course is the place to start. This entry-level open water diver qualification will equip you with the core skills to dive to a maximum of 20 metres in open water, in the UK and abroad.

The BSAC Ocean Diver course is open to anyone from the age of 12.

The ocean diver course includes six theory modules, at least five sessions in a pool or sheltered water, and at least four open-water dives.

BSAC Advanced Ocean Diver

To enrol on the Advanced Ocean Diver, you must have successfully completed the BSAC Ocean Diver course. It is also open to those who have an equivalent certification from another recognised diver training agency and have completed Nitrox training. You must also be aged 14 or over to be able to progress to depths up to 30m.If you are an already qualified BSAC Ocean Diver (or other agency equivalent) and would like to extend your diving range progressively, then Advanced Ocean Diver is for you.

An optional step between Ocean Diver and Sports Diver, Advanced Ocean Diver will enable you to dive up to 30m which opens up even more of our fabulous underwater environment to explore!

BSAC Sports Diver

To become a Sports Diver, you must have successfully completed an Ocean Diver or Advanced Ocean Diver course (or have equivalent certification from another recognised training agency) and be aged 12 or older, but you need to be 14 or older to progress to depths greater than 20m post qualification

Advancing your scuba diving qualifications to become a Sports Diver gives you the opportunity to perform longer, deeper dives with decompression stops, as well as learning rescue skills.

If you want to do more with your diving, the Sports Diver qualification gives you the freedom to explore. Being a Sports Diver allows most people to do all the diving they want in the UK and abroad

You will broaden your experience in a variety of challenging open-water conditions and learn essential techniques to prepare you for diving to a maximum of 35 metres.

BSAC Dive Leader

Do you want to extend your personal diving skills and plan and lead dives for others?

Are you ready to learn how to manage groups of divers, and develop your rescue-management skills? If so, Dive Leader is the exciting next step in your development as a diver.

Also if you want to become an Open Water Instructor with BSAC you need to be a Dive Leader.

The training also prepares you to dive to depths of up to 50 metres in a range of challenging conditions, following a series of post-qualification depth progression dives.

BSAC Advanced Diver

Are you ready to take others on an adventure? If you want to manage challenging diving activities and expeditions in places you haven’t been before, then Advanced Diver is the course for you.

Advanced Divers are role models in BSAC clubs, able to lead groups in new situations, which can be remote and require detailed planning backed up by a huge amount of experience.

Advanced Diver training is essential for Dive Leaders who want to organise diving to places they’ve not been before, or Open Water Instructors who want to become Advanced Instructors.

To enrol on an Advanced Diver course you must have already successfully completed a BSAC Dive Leader course (or have equivalent certification from another recognised training agency) and you must be at least 14 years old.

BSAC Sports Diver Nitrox

This workshop will bring the following divers up-to-date with the present Sports Diver syllabus, which includes using mixes up to nitrox 36 to reduce mandatory stop times on decompression dives within their qualification.

Pre January 2007 qualified Sports Divers, who have already attended an Ocean Diver Nitrox Workshop or hold a BSAC Basic Nitrox Diver qualification (as part of their Ocean Diver qualification)

Divers coming in from other agencies.

On completion of this Sports Diver Nitrox Workshop you will have the knowledge necessary to dive safely in open water within your existing qualification using mixes up to nitrox 36 on a decompression dive. You will be able to plan nitrox dives using BSAC nitrox tables or a nitrox computer.

You can apply to BSAC HQ for a qualification card, which will enable you to buy nitrox fills up to nitrox 36 at a gas station.

Accelerated Decompression Procedures

An Accelerated Decompression Procedures diver is competent to plan and conduct open-circuit dives with mandatory decompression using back gas of up to 36 per cent nitrox on BSAC tables, or 50 per cent nitrox using a multi-mix programmable dive computer, and deco gases of up to 80 per cent nitrox, to accelerate decompression, within the depth limits of their diver certification.

BSAC’s Accelerated Decompression Procedures (ADP) course is a great way to extend your nitrox diving skills, by learning to use oxygen-rich mixes to improve the efficiency of decompression. It encourages you to make informed choices about your diving.

It is a stand-alone course that also complements the Twin-set Diver course.

Advanced Wreck Diver

BSAC’s Advanced Wreck Diver Course builds on the skills you learned in the Wreck Diver course and takes you, in two modules through semi-overhead wreck diving into full overhead wreck penetration.

On successful completion of the course, you will have the knowledge and skills to take part in and help plan full wreck penetration dives within the limitation of your diving grade.

You will have some experience of diving as part of a team, using lines which at times may be your only connection to the exit point of a wreck in reduced or zero visibility. You should also understand that this type of diving is only undertaken in the company of other divers qualified in overhead environment diving.

Drysuit Training

BSAC’s Drysuit Training course will teach you how to dive safely in a drysuit, helping to keep you warm and more comfortable in cold-water conditions.

Upon completion of your Drysuit Training, you can apply for a Drysuit Diver Workshop Qualification Card, which will enable you to hire a drysuit when you need to. Without the Drysuit Qualification Card, resorts and dive centres may not hire you a drysuit.