Sports Diver
The BSAC Sports Diver course allows the Ocean (or other agency equivalent) diver to improve their open water diving skills.
These new skills cover rescue skills, use of a Surface Marker Buoy, organisation and marshalling, navigation and new equpment.
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A qualified Sports Diver can initially only dive to a depth of 20m, however this depth can be increased by a series of progressively deeper dives when accompanied by a qualified instructor, to a maximum depth of 35m.
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A qualified Sports Diver can participate in decompression dives when accompanied by a suitably qualified and experienced diver . They can also accompany an Ocean Diver (though the maximum depth is limited to the Ocean Diver's 20m).
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