Training

Try Dives	BSAC Qualifications	Skills Development Courses	Snorkelling

Overview

Within the BSAC training process there is a structured progression that takes you from the swimming pool, into sheltered open water and then into the wide open ocean. Whatever your preferences are once you are trained, you will find courses designed for you to get the most out of your diving.

Try Dives

So you are interested in Scuba Diving? The first step is to do a Try Dive. This hour long session includes a short presentation about the Enfield BSAC branch and the BSAC (British Sub Aqua Club), and what to expect if you decide to join the club and start Ocean Diver training. You then go to the pool have a short introduction to the equipment, then get to try the equipment in the pool with a qualified Instructor or Dive Leader. Then back up to the bar to enjoy a drink and meet the rest of the club.

BSAC Qualifications

Ocean Diver Course

When you have done your try-dive and enjoyed it enough to want to do a bit more, you can join our Ocean Diver course. We will at this stage ask you to join the club. There are a number of different diving grades that you can progress through as your skills and confidence improve. Initially the training will we mostly in the swimming pool, but you will be using diving kit from almost the first moment. The club will provide most of the equipment you require but you will be expected to have some basic kit. With a small number of dives in a suitably supervised sheltered water area, and after the appropriate theory lessons you will qualify as a BSAC Ocean Diver. This grade will allow you to dive in a club environment to a maximum depth of 20m.

Sports Diver and beyond

When you want to extend your skills and experience, you can train as a BSAC Sport Diver. This will let you dive deeper, to 35m, improve your diving skills and extend your lifesaving abilities.

The next step is BSAC Dive Leader which will let you dive to the maximum recommended depth of 50m. You will now be capable of leading less experienced divers, and are considered a fully capable diver in your own right.

BSAC Advanced Diver training will teach you skills to enable you to perform longer and more strenuous dives and to perform some of the more specialist skills involved in this hobby, such as running branch diving trips.

Perhaps you want to train as a BSAC First Class Diver. This is the highest BSAC diving award, and will give you the skills to organise diving trips and tasks at a national level.

For more information on the various diving grades, please click here to go to the BSAC website.

Skills Development Courses

At all diving grades there is the opportunity to undertake specialist skill development courses, which will let you train as a rescue specialist, to use breathing gasses other than air, to become an expert in underwater photography or many other things. You may also decide that at some stage you want to put something back into the club, and there are opportunities to train as diving instructors, from pool or theory instructors.

Here is a list of Skills Development Courses we do at Enfield BSAC. Please see the Diving and Events Section for dates of these courses, or email us for more information.