Skill Development Courses (SDCs)
Diving is a diverse and exciting sport, offering endless opportunities to build your experience, learn new skills and explore new diving horizons.
Develop your diving - Skill Development Courses
BSAC offers a wide range of special interest courses, designed to ensure you get the very best out of your diving. Our programme of Skill Development Courses (SDCs) are regularly held by Regional Coaching Teams, BSAC Centres and can be staged in Clubs.
So, whether your interest is in rescue, wrecks, technical, marine life or photography, there is a BSAC specialist course for everybody.
Our current courses include:
- Safety and rescue - life saving, first aid, oxygen administration
- Technical - use of mixed gases and rebreathers & nitrox
- Seamanship - boat handling, chartwork, navigation, outboard maintenance
- Special interest - marine life appreciation, underwater photography
- Club diving - dive planning, compressors, searches, wreck appreciation, accelerated decompession procedures
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Expanding diving course syllabi
Further divers' experience
Technical course syllabi
Longer, deeper, safer
Seamanship course syllabi
Safe on the sea
Scientific course syllabi
Specialist skills
Rescue course syllabi
Learn skills that save lives










