BSAC Ocean Diver

BSAC Ocean Diver
£330 / 5 Days - 4 dives
Academics, Pool & Open Water Dives

This course is run over 5 days. The start of your BSAC diving enjoyment, we can run this course in a block format, or over 3 weekends. As a newly qualified Ocean Diver you will receive three months free membership to BSAC. The network of BSAC branches makes diving accessible and provides the opportunity to gain diving experience and enjoy meeting like-minded people.

* Academic Modules:

Classroom Lessons are structured to provide prerequisite knowledge appropriate to different elements of the Sheltered and Open Water lessons.

OT1 Ocean Diver Training
OT2 Diving Equipment and Diving Signals
OT3 The Body and Effects of Diving
OT4 Planning to go Diving
OT5 Going Diving
OT6 What Happens If?
OT7 Enjoying Your Diving

* Swimming Pool Lessons:

The Ocean Diver lessons are structured very much on the 'less haste more speed' principle. The lessons concentrate on the students acquiring basic skills, such as buoyancy control, finning etc, to a level where they become second nature, and students become relaxed underwater and develop confidence in their own abilities. This builds a firm foundation on which other skills, such as navigation or the use of Surface Marker Buoys, can be overlaid in future Sports Diver training.

OS1 Being Underwater
OS2 Basic Skills
OS3 Developing Skills
OS4 Beyond the Basics
OS5 Safety Skills

* Open Water Lessons:

The emphasis on the Open Water dives is to take the skills already taught during the Sheltered Water lessons into the Open Water environment. To ensure that students receive experience in a range of conditions, the Open Water dives must include four conditions from the following, appropriate to the local conditions in which they will subsequently be diving:

• shore dive - dive commencing and ending on either a gently shelving shore or a deep water entry/exit
  
• dive using a breathing gas mix - 32% or 36% O2
  
• low visibility dive - dive in visibility in the range between 2 and 4 metres
  
• drift dive - dive in moving water in the speed range between 0.25 and 0.5kn
  
• small boat dive - dive from a boat of less than 8m overall length, where water entry is via a backward roll, and egress from the water requires removal of equipment in the water
  
• large boat dive - dive from a boat of greater than 8m overall length, where the
  
• water entered is via a stride entry, and egress from the water is accomplished via
  
• ladder without removal of any equipment except, possibly, fins
  
• wall dive - dive along a vertical or near vertical wall with no solid bottom closer than 4m below the divers
  
• dive in protective clothing - dive wearing either a wet suit or dry suit