E: JurassicAquaSports@gmail.com

T: 07970 292 132

T: 07970 292 132

  • Home
  • BSAC Courses
  • Dive Sites
  • Diving
  • Waverider Our Hardboat
  • Dive Calendars - Spaces
  • Parking at the Marina
  • Scenic Tours & Charter
  • Boat & Rhib Hire
  • Your Skipper
  • BSAC Diving Conference
  • Go Diving Show
  • Waverider Merchandise
  • Scattering Ashes At Sea
  • Scuba Magazine Articles
  • Customer Comments
  • RNLI Fundraising
  • Gift Vouchers
  • Links To Local Services
  • Terms & Conditions
  • More
    • Home
    • BSAC Courses
    • Dive Sites
    • Diving
    • Waverider Our Hardboat
    • Dive Calendars - Spaces
    • Parking at the Marina
    • Scenic Tours & Charter
    • Boat & Rhib Hire
    • Your Skipper
    • BSAC Diving Conference
    • Go Diving Show
    • Waverider Merchandise
    • Scattering Ashes At Sea
    • Scuba Magazine Articles
    • Customer Comments
    • RNLI Fundraising
    • Gift Vouchers
    • Links To Local Services
    • Terms & Conditions
  • Home
  • BSAC Courses
  • Dive Sites
  • Diving
  • Waverider Our Hardboat
  • Dive Calendars - Spaces
  • Parking at the Marina
  • Scenic Tours & Charter
  • Boat & Rhib Hire
  • Your Skipper
  • BSAC Diving Conference
  • Go Diving Show
  • Waverider Merchandise
  • Scattering Ashes At Sea
  • Scuba Magazine Articles
  • Customer Comments
  • RNLI Fundraising
  • Gift Vouchers
  • Links To Local Services
  • Terms & Conditions

To book a course or workshop simply email us…

BOOK NOW

Want to get more from your diving…?



BSAC Seamanship Skill development courses

Boat Handling

Have fun, build confidence and expand your diving opportunities by enrolling on a BSAC Boat Handling Course .

This course is aimed at people whom have no previous boating experience, also will further the training of more experienced users and will teach you both the theory and practical side on controlling a power boat in confined area i.e. in a marina and at high speed in open water.


We also added in an introduction to Chartwork & Position Fixing (as part of a BSAC SDC Course) where you will also have the benefits of understanding charts, tides and the weather, also how to prepare and execute a route passage plan to go to sea.


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.


This is a great fun and enjoyable course for all.....

Next scheduled dates for the Boat Handling Course

Our next scheduled dates  :-


DATES FOR 2025


21st & 22nd April 

20th & 21st May 

10th & 11th June 

14th & 15th July 

11th & 12th August 

1st & 2nd September 

6th & 7th October 

1st & 2nd December 


Cost £285.00 + £65.00 for a printed training pack (while stocks last, before going digital).


Further weekend dates to be added…


Additional dates can be easily added for club or group bookings of 3

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.


This workshop can also be run for individuals over one day, simply contact us for details ...

Date for our next Post Boat Handling Workshop


Our next scheduled dates  :- 


Dates for 2025


12th & 13th May

12th & 13th June

22nd & 23rd  September 

3rd & 4th November


Cost £330.00


Further weekend dates to be added…


Additional dates can be easily added for club, group or individual bookings....

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

Our next scheduled dates :-


DATES FOR 2025


28th April

16th June

21st July

18th August 

15th September 

20th October

17th November 

8th December 



Cost £180.00


Additional dates can be easily added for club or group bookings of 3….

Diver Coxswain Assessment

 Open to anyone aged over 16 who has completed a BSAC Boat Handling Course or RYA Level 2 and has since logged a minimum of five hours boat-handling, or can demonstrate 20 hours or more of previous boat-handling experience.


We would require a written confirmation from the Diving Officer of the 20 hours 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.


On completion you can apply for the ICC International Certificate for Operators of Pleasures Craft available via BSAC HQ.

Dates for our next Diver Coxswain Assessment

Our next scheduled dates :


29th April (2 spaces)

27th May

17th June

22nd July

19th August 

21st October 

18th November 

9th December 


Cost £170.00 + £20.00 (Assessment Pack)


Plus you need to purchase your BSAC Diver

Assessment Pack from the BSAC Shop.

https://www.bsac.com/shop/digital-training-materials/workshopexamination-


Additional dates can be easily added for club or group bookings of 3…

BSAC 5 Day Intensive Training Course

Want to fast track your training…?


We can offer a bespoke 5 day intensive Boat Handling to Diver Coxswain training course.


Day One & Two : BSAC Boat Handling Course

Day Three : BSAC Post Boat Handling Workshop 

Day Four : BSAC Diver Coxswain Preparation Workshop 

Day Five : BSAC Diver Coxswain Assessment 


Our next scheduled dates :


19th - 23rd May


Other dates available contact us for details.


Cost £1,500.00 + £20.00 (Assessment Pack)


Plus you need to purchase your BSAC Diver

Assessment Pack from the BSAC Shop.

https://www.bsac.com/shop/digital-training-materials/workshopexamination-


Chartwork and Position Fixing

This two-day course, which 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


Our next scheduled dates …


DATES FOR 2025


2nd & 3rd June (2 spaces)

28th & 29th July

8th & 9th September 

13th & 14th October 

10th & 11th November

15th &16th December 


Cost £285.00 + £65.00 for a printed training pack (while stocks last, before going digital).



Additional dates can be easily added for club or group bookings of 3….

Oxygen Administration

Oxygen Administration

This one day Oxygen Administration course is a classroom based theory and practical sessions. You will learn how to give basic life support as a solo rescuer or two-person team, with or without a pocket mask.

You will refresh your knowledge of the diving-related injuries burst lung, decompression illness, drowning, carbon monoxide poisoning and shock and find out how they benefit from oxygen first aid.  


Practical skills include casualty assessment and the use of oxygen administration equipment for breathing and non-breathing casualties. The skills practice will be on a manikin.


There is a practical and theory assessment at the end of the course.


Contact us for dates…


Cost £165.00 (plus training pack)


Additional dates can be easily added for club or group bookings…

First Aid for Divers

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.


Contact us for dates ….


Cost £165.00 (plus training pack)


Additional dates can be easily added for club or group bookings…

AED & Oxygen Administration Refresher

This course consists as a one day classroom based with theory and practical lessons to refresh the use of Oxygen Administration and Basic Life Support to a casualty and the use of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED).  Being qualified in its use  gives you the confidence to treat a diving-related injury either on a  boat or on dry land. 


Contact us for dates….


Cost £165.00 + £45.00 for a printed training pack (while stocks last, before going digital).



Additional dates can be easily added for club or group bookings…


Our 2025 Training Courses

Is your Club struggling with offering training...?

Contact us for your own bespoke Club training, including training workshops for Boat Handling Instructors and Diver Coxswain Assessors…


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 Handling

This is a three hour session, which is simply an introduction into the basics of boat handling.


The session will cover pre-boat safety checks, use of the basic controls, how to steer and manoeuvre the boat from a pontoon and control the boat at slow & fast speeds within the safety of Portland Harbour.


Cost £300

Students being taught how to come alongside a mooring pontoon.

BSAC Boat Handling Course

David our lead instructor teaching a student  to carry out a u turn within a limited space...

Contact Us

Book your course now

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Send us a message with any comments, questions, or scheduling concerns. We will get back to you soon!

Jurassic Aqua Sports

07970 292 132


Copyright © 2025 Jurassic Aqua Sports - All Rights Reserved.

  • Home
  • BSAC Courses
  • Dive Sites
  • Diving
  • Waverider Our Hardboat
  • Dive Calendars - Spaces
  • Parking at the Marina
  • Scenic Tours & Charter
  • Boat & Rhib Hire
  • Your Skipper
  • BSAC Diving Conference
  • Go Diving Show
  • Waverider Merchandise
  • Scattering Ashes At Sea
  • Scuba Magazine Articles
  • Customer Comments
  • RNLI Fundraising
  • Gift Vouchers
  • Links To Local Services
  • Terms & Conditions

Powered by

This website uses cookies.

We use cookies to analyze website traffic and optimize your website experience. By accepting our use of cookies, your data will be aggregated with all other user data.

Accept