Crossover Training

We warmly welcome divers from all dive training organisations. Many of our divers and instructors have trained with PADI, CMAS, SAA and others. BSAC recognise the qualifications issued by other organisations and allow you to immediately start training for the next higher BSAC level.

The most common cross-overs are:

BSAC recognise many other qualifications under its Statement of Alternative Training (SALT) scheme. A full list is available here.

Why Clidive and why BSAC?

Clidive is a friendly club full of divers who believe that diving isn’t just for holidays once a year. Every year, Clidive organises 80-90 days of diving for its members in the UK and abroad. We are one of the most active diving clubs in the country. Our two fast RIBs (rigid hulled inflatable boats) are based on the South coast and move from location to location throughout the year. In the last year, they have operated from Weymouth, Salcombe, Plymouth, North and South Cornwall and the Western Isles.

We also dive from chartered hard boats around the UK and further afield. In the last year, we have dived in Norway, the South of France, the Red Sea, South-West Ireland, the Farne Islands (Northumberland), Scapa Flow (Orkneys), St. Kilda (North-West Scotland), Anglesey, Oban and Mull, Brighton, Littlehampton and more.

When they first join, many divers who have trained outside of BSAC find that what we do is a bit different:

• Clidive is a members club. It does not exist to make profits, or to sell courses, but solely to provide safe, high quality and adventurous diving for its members.
• In Clidive, diving is a social activity. We meet every week, we go diving together, and we enjoy ourselves.
• We train everyone in rescue skills from day one.
• We don’t dive in “follow the leader” large groups with a dive guide. We dive in buddy pairs, each pair free to explore together.
• We don’t ever teach in large groups. In open water, no instructor has more than 2 students.
• We want to train people to be confident and competent divers, not to rush them through a course. We have the time to train people really well.
• We operate our own two boats. We organise the boat handling, navigation and safety courses needed for club members to learn to drive them.
• We offer a full range of diving to our members from 5-50 metres. We train people in decompression diving.
• We dive in the UK, and we think UK diving is stunningly good.

Tell me more about training

We encourage everyone who joins to take advantage of the training courses we offer.

For divers that have PADI Open Water or Advanced Open Water qualifications, the Sports Diver course is the ideal next step. Sports Diver covers the rescue skills covered in courses such as PADI Rescue Diver plus the use of more advanced equipment and techniques. The course covers:

• Use of surface marker buoys (SMBs), delayed surface marker buoys (DSMBs), distance lines and shot lines.
• Diver rescue: panic, alternative air sources (AAS), controlled buoyant lifts (CBLs), in-water resuscitation and towing, de-kit and recovery of injured divers and surface resuscitation.
• Decompression diving, redundant air systems, introduction to nitrox and rebreathers.
• Understanding diving conditions, planning and leading dives.

Visit us, Go! Dive with BSAC

Go Dive with BSAC is an open invitation to ALL qualified divers to give it a go the BSAC way. It doesn't matter who you trained with, if you've never dived in the UK before or if you haven't dived for a few seasons.

Before you decide to join, come along and meet us one Thursday. We will arrange for you to have a chat with an instructor who will introduce you to Clidive and BSAC, answer your questions and take you in the pool. Your instructor will also explain the BSAC dive tables and buddy check. Before you get in the water, your instructor will ask you to complete a “Safety First” questionnaire to identify what skills you have previously covered in training, what skills you find easy, and what you find trickier.

For more information about learning to dive with Clidive, please contact John by emailing learntodive@clidive.org or call 07986 354703.
For people who can already dive and would like to join us or do some more advanced training please Clare by emailing alreadyadiver@clidivive.org.

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