Skill Development Courses (SDCs)

Diving is a diverse and exciting sport, offering endless opportunities to build your experience, learn new skills and explore new diving horizons.

Develop your diving - Skill Development Courses

BSAC offers a wide range of special interest courses, designed to ensure you get the very best out of your diving. Our programme of Skill Development Courses (SDCs) are regularly held by Regional Coaching Teams, BSAC Centres and can be staged in Clubs.

So, whether your interest is in rescue, wrecks, technical, marine life or photography, there is a BSAC specialist course for everybody.

Click on the brochure to the right to see which courses takes your fancy. Then check with Helena to see if there is a cousre running. BSACs current courses include:

CLUB DIVING
Accelerated Decompression Procedures (ADP)
Buoyancy and Trim Workshop
Compressor Operation
Dive Planning and Management
Equipment Care
Mixed Gas Blender / Nitrox Gas Blender
Search and Recovery
Wreck Appreciation

SAFETY AND RESCUE
Advanced Lifesaver Award
Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
First Aid for Divers 
Lifesaver Award  
Oxygen Administration    
Practical Rescue Management

SEAMANSHIP
Boat Handling
Chartwork and Position Fixing
Diver Coxswain Assessment 
Outboard Engine and Boat Maintenance

SPECIAL INTEREST
Underwater Photography
Ice Diving