With the new snorkelling courses comes a brand new snorkelling qualification record book.
This book is a plastic filofax book which incorporates all of the new courses with space at the back for SDC cards
Each course has a new manual with the same style filofax cover…
On Saturday 18th February I joined a very pleasant, interesting bunch of peers for a two day Snorkel Instructor’s Course run by BSAC. For a weekend – it was an early start but everyone was in good spirits in anticipation of what we hoped would be an exciting, informative weekend.
As a diver I was surprised and pleased to see that the majority of my fellow students were also divers who, like me, recognised the importance of good snorkelling skills and how snorkelling can encourage future members to BSAC – both snorkellers and divers.
Oxford BSAC are hosting an advanced snorkel lifesaver course on Saturday 7th April 2012.
The course is a mixture of classroom lessons in the clubhouse and open water lessons in Hinksey Lake.
It will run from 9am to 5pm, cost £25 per person.
For more details and to book a place please email Debbie via our snorkelling contact form
Oxford BSAC recently hosted a Snorkel Instructor Training Course.
Four instructor trainers, headed by Marg Baldwin, spent 2 days putting 12 potential snorkel instructors through their paces.
This is a two day course with both practical and theory sessions.
The practical sessions will take place at Westminster College just outside Oxford and the theory sessions will be held at our clubhouse off the Abingdon Road, Oxford.
The course is open to snorkel divers or equivalent, aged 16 years and over, who are BSAC members.
We couldn’t have wished for more perfect weather. As the 11 of us gathered on the harbour side at 10am ready to meet Ian the skipper of Obsession I, the sun was just burning away the last remaining clouds and mist. Obsession I is a Procharter P3, 40 foot long charter boat that works out of Ilfracombe harbour. Skippered by Ian and helped by his son Dominic we couldn’t have been in better hands.
24th Sept 2011
We arrived at Kimmeridge Bay around midday. For the first time this year the slip way was clear of the usual queue of RIB’s, canoes and other small boats waiting to launch or be retrieved.Kimmeridge bay have just completed an update with new toilet and shower facilities! (continued below gallery)
Meet on Lulworth Beach, Dorset, at 1pm where we will be picked up by Naiad to snorkel dive around Stair Hole. Have a play and chat on the beach while waiting your turn. Each snorkel dive from Naiad costs £5.
Fish and chips on the beach around 5pm
Night snorkel dive, for those who dare, on Lulworth beach starting at 6.30pm.
Bringing all the training materials up-to-date, with new training packs, Instructor Manual and resources, the BSAC Snorkel Training Programme will enable even more of our clubs to provide snorkel training and bring more young people and families into BSAC.
Congratulations to Mike, Fern and Corin who passed their Snorkel Diver Theory Assessment this week.