Missed a webinar? Many of them are recorded so you can catch up!
For various reasons, it is not always possible to make a live event so please see the links below to the recordings of webinars that have already run.
Disclaimer: Special interest webinars are put together by volunteers. Neither the volunteers nor BSAC are liable for any damages arising from any action taken as a result of watching these webinars. Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute endorsement or recommendation by BSAC. The views expressed by volunteers are their own.
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Contents
Marine conservation and underwater heritage | Boat handling
Wreck diving and expeditions
UK and Ireland wrecks
- 10 deep wrecks off the south coast of the UK
- Diving the U-boats of North Cornwall
- Diving the wrecks of North Cornwall
- Exploring deep wrecks of Marlin Head
- The Royal Charter
- Research into the SS East Point
- Diving HMS Victory
- Abu Dhabi Sub-Aqua Club: a diving guide to UAE and Oman
- Identifying motor torpedo boats
Overseas wrecks
- Diving HMS Victoria at 150m
- Diving RMS Egypt at 128m
- Diving the Graf Zeppelin
- Expedition to dive Jutland's wrecks
- Diving the wrecks of Vis, Croatia
- Photogrammetry on SS Thistlegorm
- Diving the wrecks of Bell Island
- Diving in the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia
- Diving the Azores
Expeditions and projects
- Normandy expedition
- Dorset Shipwreck Project
- Project Highball (Part 1 | Part 2)
- Jim and Ged's around the world diving adventure
Diving safety and skills
General
- Bathymetry: what's the use for divers
- How to find your way around a wreck
- Understanding underwater metal shipwrecks
- Synoptic charts and dive planning
- BSAC 88 transfer tables
- Introduction to commercial scuba diving
- 30 years under the earth: cave diving across the world
- The lowdown on gas density tables
- Safe use of lifting bags
- Planning a diving day
- The physics and fluff of using less air
Skill Bytes
Hosted by a team of National and Advanced Instructors, these webinars are approx. 30 minutes and give viewers the chance to refresh some of the key diving skills.
- How to use a compass underwater
- Basic decompression theory
- Nitrox: advantages and how to use it
- How to use a delayed surface marker buoy (dSMB)
- Diving cylinders
- BSAC 88 tables
- Going diving
- Going boat diving
- How to use pilotage
- Alternate source vs. controlled buoyant lift ascents
- How to use a Suunto computer
- Diver rescue sequence
- Human factors in the world of diving
Safety
- Increasing the probability of surviving loss of consciousness underwater when using a rebreather
- Immersion pulmonary oedema (IPO)
- Surfacing actions for alternate source ascents and controlled buoyant lift (CBL)
- Physiological effects of nitrox on divers
- Diving safety in 2021 for instructors
- Health of divers project: the last 12 years
- Is technical diving just different kit?
- Refresh your scuba skills after a break
- Refresh your CCR skills after a break
- RNLI use of checklists in casualty care
- Be a better Dive Leader by applying human factors
- Dive Leader: learning from incidents
- Hyperbaric medicine: the trouble with bubbles
UK diving and marine life
- 50 shades of green: underwater photography in the British Isles
- Benthic species and Scapa wrecks
- Diving times of a military and commercial diver
- A diver's view of marine life in North Cornwall
- Dive sites in NW England
- Diving Cape Wrath
- Diving North Wales
- Worms and crustaceans
- Molluscs and bryozoans
- Fish, seaweeds and what next
- How to carry out a marine life transect survey
- Wreckspeditions: diving from Dunoon
- Scottish marine life citizen science
- Marine geology, seabeds and habitats of the south coast
- Marine identification: taxonomy and classification
Marine conservation and underwater heritage
- The who, what and how of marine mammal strandings
- Shark Guardian: Banning shark fin imports to the UK
- How to carry out a marine life transect survey
- What can the NAS do for divers – above and below the waves?
- Wreck and salvage: your rights and responsibility
- Marine Conservation Society: beach clean organiser training
- Marine Conservation Society: Beachwatch
- Marine Conservation Society: Microplastics
- Marine Conservation Society: climate and blue carbon
- Marine Conservation Society: Plastics and the ocean
- A documentary filmmaker's unique view of the sea
- Understanding metal shipwrecks
- Coral under climate change
- Ghostfishing UK: ghost stories
- Diving Belles: famous women in diving
Boat handling
- Buoyage
- GPS and chartplotters
- How to use the RYA SafeTrx app
- Dive boat engines and hull designs
- Launching and recovering a RIB
- RIB controls and construction
- Understanding radio communications to HM Coastguard
Support for members
- Mental health and resilience
- Diving for mental health and happiness
- Introducing situational leadership (Supporting documents: guide | model | case study | sample | slides)
- How to run a webinar
- How to become a PowerPoint ninja
- Design and characteristics of a good drysuit
- ScubaTrust: diving with a disability
- Filmmaking for divers
- Kernow dive festival: what has made it such a success?
- Newly-qualified instructors: help and guidance
- Be a better Dive Leader by applying human factors
- Dive Leader: your role in the community
- Discover the Maldives: a scuba diver's paradise
- BSAC strategy update
- Colour correcting underwater video
- Photogrammetry with Marcus Blatchford
Support for clubs
- University expeditions
- BSAC websites for clubs initiative (pre-launch, 24 April 2020) (Password: scuba)
- Creating a website for your club (7 September 2021)
- Why invest in a website for your BSAC club? (23 November 2021)
- Introducing Advanced Ocean Diver
- How crowdfunding can help your club
- Heinke Trophy submission workshop
Know and Grow (2022)
- Know and Grow: The big wins
- Know and Grow: Club culture
- Know and Grow: Recruitment and retention
- Know and Grow: Social media
- Know and Grow: Collaboration
- Know and Grow: Diving Officer Q&A
- Know and Grow: Membership Secretary Q&A
Dive Leader training (DL09)
DT1 | DT2 | DT3 | DT4 | DT5 | DT6 | DT8 | DT9 | DT10 | DT11 | DT12
Instructor Training Scheme
- Intro to BSAC's higher instructor qualifications
- Demystifying BSAC higher level instructor qualifications
- Open Water Instructor refresher
- Advanced Instructor refresher
- Teaching SP2 in Sports Diver 2020 syllabus
Tech diving and courses
- Planned changes and updates (June 2020)
- Introducing BSAC sidemount course
- CCR refresher (Common core | APD unit specific)
- Tech report writing for instructors (How to find SDC report forms | How to find tech diver grade report forms)
- Increasing the probability of surviving loss of consciousness underwater when using a rebreather
