British Sub Aqua Club Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
The British Sub-Aqua Club or BS-AC is the governing body of recreational diving in Britain.The club was founded in 1953 and has around 40,000 members. It is a diver training organization that operates through its associated network of around one thousand local, independent diving clubs and around thirty diving schools.
BS-AC is unusual for a diver training agency in that most BS-AC instructors are amateurs operating in diving clubs as opposed to professionals operating in diving schools.
Given that UK waters are relatively cold and have restricted visibility, BS-AC training is more comprehensive than some. Specifically it places emphasis on rescue training very early in the programme. This has led to the SAC in BS-AC being jokingly referred to as Slow And Careful. Compared to PADI, this is probably true: it will take longer for a new diver to be swimming in open water but given the conditions this is probably sensible.
BSAC currently has five certification levels for non-instructors. These are:
- Ocean Diver - Basic skills, non-decompression diving (depth limit 20m)
- Sports Diver - Rescue & decompression diving (depth limit 35m)
- Dive Leader - Dive planning, leading and marshalling (depth limit 50m)
- Advanced Diver - Fully trained diver
- First Class Diver - Nationally examined - higher theory grade
External links
- British Sub-Aqua Club
- Dacorum Sub-Aqua Club
- Old Harbour Dive School
- Kingston & Elmbridge BSAC
- Lincoln and District BSAC
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