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BSAC Seamanship Skill development courses
Boat Handling
Next scheduled dates for the Boat Handling Course
Next scheduled dates for the Boat Handling Course
You will be out and about in boats on both days of this two-day course, which includes a mix of four theory, two dry practical and three open-water practical sessions aboard a RIB. You will learn about the responsibilities of owning, towing and driving a boat, and how to launch and recover it.
With a maximum of three students per instructor in sessions on the water, you will learn how to drive the boat and will have plenty of hands-on time to practise a range of boat manoeuvres to improve your boat-handling skills and safely drop off and recover divers on a dive site.
Practical skills include high-speed driving, slow-speed manoeuvring, anchoring and coming alongside. You will develop your overall seamanship skills, including voyage planning, essential rules of the road and learn the actions to take in an emergency.
Next scheduled dates for the Boat Handling Course
Next scheduled dates for the Boat Handling Course
Next scheduled dates for the Boat Handling Course
1st & 2nd August
31st & 1st November
Cost £260 (plus training pack)
Additional dates can be easily added for club or group bookings of 3….
Post Boat Handling Workshop
Next scheduled dates for the Boat Handling Course
Date for our next Post Boat Handling Workshop
This is a two day workshop for students who have completed the BSAC Boat Handling Course, specially designed to enable them to develop their skills in both theory and practical elements with a minimum of 5 hours behind the helm to gain confidence, so they then will be able to attend the Diver Coxswain Assessment (DCA). This workshop creates an avenue for those who don’t have access to a Rhib or wish to fast track their training to gain the Diver Coxswain Qualification (please note the DCA is not included within this course). The workshop is based on maximum number of two students.
Date for our next Post Boat Handling Workshop
Dates for our next Diver Coxswain Preparation Workshop
Date for our next Post Boat Handling Workshop
9th & 10th May
27th & 28th June
8th & 9th August
5th & 6th December
Cost £300
Diver Coxswain Preparation Workshop
Dates for our next Diver Coxswain Preparation Workshop
Dates for our next Diver Coxswain Preparation Workshop
This is a one day workshop to refresh your practical boat handling techniques and theoretical skills with chart work, passage planning and seamanship knowledge, along with open water sessions to enhance your skills as a skipper and a navigator in preparation for the Diver Coxswain Assessment.
The following skills will be covered:
- Voyage planning
- Boat preparation and safety
- Boat handling and manoeuvres
- Anchoring
- Dropping and recovering a shot line
- Coming alongside
- Approaching a shelving shore
- Safe drop off and recovery of divers
- Emergency actions including man overboard
Dates for our next Diver Coxswain Preparation Workshop
Dates for our next Diver Coxswain Preparation Workshop
Dates for our next Diver Coxswain Preparation Workshop
6th June (FULL)
8th June (FULL)
17th October
Cost £165
Additional dates can be easily added for club or group bookings of 3….
Diver Coxswain Assessment
Dates for our next Diver Coxswain Assessment
Dates for our next Diver Coxswain Assessment
Open to anyone aged over 16 who has completed a Boat Handling course and has since logged a minimum of five hours boat-handling, or can demonstrate 20 hours or more of previous boat-handling experience.
In the Diver Coxswain assessment you will be orally tested on your theory knowledge of boat safety equipment, what to do in an emergency, knots and rules of the road.
You will be practically assessed on your skills covering:
- Voyage planning
- Boat preparation and safety
- Boat handling and manoeuvres
- Anchoring
- Dropping and recovering a shot line
- Coming alongside
- Approaching a shelving shore
- Safe drop off and recovery of divers
- Emergency actions including man overboard
Boat Handling is a great way to get non-divers involved in the club, especially if they have family members that dive. No diving qualification is necessary to take part.
Dates for our next Diver Coxswain Assessment
Dates for our next Diver Coxswain Assessment
Dates for our next Diver Coxswain Assessment
7th June (FULL)
9th June (FULL)
18th October
Cost £157
Additional dates can be easily added for club or group bookings of 3….
Chartwork and Position Fixing
Dates for our next Diver Coxswain Assessment
Dates for our next Chartwork & Position Fixing Course
This two-day course includes a day afloat to consolidate your practical navigation skills following a day of theory sessions, dry practical sessions, and planning.
You will develop your overall knowledge of planning for more exciting exploratory diving, including:
- learning about what nautical charts can tell you
- working out the tides
- how to fix your position at sea
- how to locate dive sites
- how to plan and carry out a voyage
Dates for our next Chartwork & Position Fixing Course
Dates for our next Chartwork & Position Fixing Course
Dates for our next Chartwork & Position Fixing Course
4th & 5th July
3rd & 4th October
Cost £260 (plus training pack)
Additional dates can be easily added for club or group bookings of 3….
Oxygen Administration
Dates for our next Chartwork & Position Fixing Course
Oxygen Administration
One day course . The administration of oxygen is a way of increasing the effectiveness of first aid treatment for diving accidents. Being qualified in its use gives you the confidence to treat a diving-related injury either on a boat or on dry land.
First Aid for Divers
Dates for our next Chartwork & Position Fixing Course
Oxygen Administration
This one day course will give you the confidence to use first aid in a real emergency, including improvising dressings and splints using materials and equipment commonly found at the dive site or on a dive boat.
RNLI Diver Sea Survival Workshop
This workshop is to make sure divers are fully prepared for diving in the sea in the UK and Ireland.
The aim is to reduce serious incidents and fatalities at sea.
Covering dive planning, rescue skills, sea survival and calling for help at the surface.
The workshop includes two dives which will cover key UK diving skills as well as the basics of sea survival techniques. Divers will have to plan dives thoroughly; we will cover other topics like how to call for help as well as how to increase visibility on the surface in a lost diver situation.
This workshop is aimed to provide not only a refresher of key safety aspects but also teach divers new safety skills.
This is a two day workshop with a days classroom theory and a practical day in water.
Cost £260
Introduction into Boat Handing
This is a three hour session. This course is an introduction into the basics of boat handling and you will be instructed into the skills of pre-boat checks, safety on board, basic controls, used of how to steer and manoeuvre the boat from a pontoon and control the boat at slow & fast speeds within the safety of Portland Harbour.