Sub Aqua

Sub Aqua

The British Sub Aqua Club (BSAC) - The Governing Body for the sport of sub-aqua diving and snorkelling in the UK - takes the safety of all divers very seriously.

This section of advice and guidance is designed to gather together the wealth of safety advice and to promote and develop 'best practice' for divers regardless of affiliation or location throughout the world. The key aim for this area is to place the emphasis on prevention rather than resolution of incidents.

The aim is for each element of advice to be developed into further detail to provide as full a picture as possible so that each diver can set their own depth of knowledge requirements.

A guide to the safe practices of sports diving as recommended by the British Sub-Aqua Club (BSAC) - the Governing Body of the sport of sub-aqua diving and snorkelling in the UK.  These recommendations reflect the current thinking of the National Diving Committee and the advice on which it is acting.

The recommendations cover both normal and ‘technical’ diving.  However, not all items relate to both of these differing types of diving.  So, where a recommendation is specific to a particular type of diving an appropriate annotation is shown in the subject heading or in the text.

All technical divers should be aware that mixed gas diving increases the element of risk.  To minimise this risk the mixed gas diver should adhere to the BSAC safe diving practices as well as those of the training agency that they qualified under if this was not BSAC.

Diving is an adventure sport and like all adventure sports its participants require differing levels of enjoyment and challenge.  At one extreme we have the equivalent of the Himalayan mountaineer who, in peak condition accepts the challenge of new routes and exploration.  At the other extreme we have the equivalent of the weekend summer rambler who follows well marked trails through the countryside.  What is safe diving practice for the former may well be very perilous for the latter and so the contents of this booklet are not a set of rigid rules but recommendations for safe diving practices.  These recommendations can be amended depending upon the particular type of diving being planned and the experience and capabilities of the divers carrying out the dive.

Where appropriate the advice is also applicable to snorkel diving. The BSAC have an excellent web site at www.basc.org from which the above has been selected as an introduction to the advice available.

Simply Sports stock fins, masks and snorkels for casual sub aqua perticipation in a limited way for sports diving we recommend that you join a recognised diving school and so obtain the necessary training for diving.