Cross Over

Joining after qualifying with another agency

If you have been away on holiday, and leant to dive with a different agency (PADI, SSI, etc.), then you can join our Club by transferring across into the appropriate member grade.

Different agencies train their divers in different sets of skills, for example a BSAC Ocean Diver are taught rescue skills, whereas these are not taught by the PADI scheme until the diver is training for the Rescue Diver qualification.

The table below shows the equivalence between agencies and grades.

Cross Over Table

Other Agency	BSAC
*All ‘Entry Level’ qualifications (which typically do not include rescue training) such as:* CMAS One Star Diver NASDS Open Water Diver and Advanced Open Water Diver NAUI Scuba Diver and Advanced Scuba Diver PADI Open Water Diver PADI Advanced Open Water Diver and AOWD Plus Royal Navy Ships Diver SAA Open Water Diver SSI Open Water Diver SSI Advanced Open Water Diver	Ocean Diver
*All ‘Second Level’ qualifications (which must include rescue training) such as:* CMAS Two Star DiverCMAS Two Star Diver HSE Commercial Diver: HSE Scuba Diver / HSE Surface Supply Diver / HSE Surface Supply (Top Up) Diver / HSE Closed Bell Diver (formerly HSE Diver Part 4, 3, 1 and 2 respectively). See also Notes 4 and 5. NASDS Rescue Diver NAUI Scuba Rescue Diver PADI Rescue Diver SAA Club Diver SSAC Third Class Diver SSI Advanced Open Water Diver with ‘Stress and Rescue’ Speciality Army Compressed Air Diver	Sports Diver
*All ‘Third Level’ qualifications (which must include dive leadership training) such as:* NASDS Dive Supervisor NAUI Divemaster PADI Divemaster SAA Dive Leader SSAC Second Class Diver/Master Diver SSI Dive Control Specialist	Dive Leader
*Any higher level of qualification, such as:* CMAS Three Star Diver SAA Dive Supervisor Because of the variation allowed in training leading to higher diving qualifications awarded by US diver training agencies, BSAC is unable to accept them as being of a similar standard to BSAC Advanced Diver. However, Branch Diving Officers can judge additional experience and training on a case by case basis.	Advanced Diver
Notes on the Table of Similar Qualifications The Table lists a number of ‘other agency’ qualifications that are considered to be of a similar standard to the BSAC qualification shown. The Table does not attempt to be definitive and only includes the more commonly recognised programmes. ‘Try a Dive' Programmes such as Discover Scuba Diving or Experience Scuba do not include sufficient instruction to warrant any credits / exemptions from a full programme of BSAC diver training. BSAC will normally accept other agency Snorkelling Qualifications as directly equivalent to its own. Nothing in the SALT process removes or alters the Branch Diving Officer’s responsibility for the safety and well being of Branch members. If the DO feels that the skills of a new member, originally trained by another agency, are lacking, the DO is at liberty to require the member to undertake appropriate refresher training and / or limit their open water diving activities until a satisfactory level of skills performance is demonstrated.

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