Trainee Diver - Entry Level Training

The most likely starting point for Trainee Divers is the Experience Scuba session (otherwise known as a Try Dive or Suck-It-&-See) where there is the opportunity to try out some SCUBA gear in the pool with an Instructor, breath underwater, and have a taste of what it's all about!

OUUEG aims to bring Trainees through to the BSAC Sports Diver Qualification. To achieve Sports Diver, the Ocean Diver Qualification also has to be achieved. BSAC's more advanced Diver and Instructor qualifications are entirely separate and there is no need or requirement to progress in that direction unless so desired.

The aim and gearing of OUUEG's Diver Training Program is to move Trainees starting in Michaelmas Term through to Sports Diver level by the end of Easter Training each Academic Year. To achieve this goal we split each qualification into two distinct areas - theory lessons, and pool/openwater training.

Ocean Diver has a much longer duration than Sports Diver in terms of both theory and pool training, so we aim to finish Ocean Diver theory and pool stuff in the first term. This consists of eight theory sessions together with six pool sessions. We will include as much Sports Diver as you and we can manage before Christmas as well, followed up with revision where needed, and sometmes a little repetition where required!!

Each trainee diver receives a BSAC training pack which includes:

• Ocean diver and Sports diver workbooks
• BSAC Qualification Record Book.

N.B. Attendance at theory lectures and pool sessions is compulsory (unless your motorbike dies or other extremely good excuse), as it is unfair on our Instructor's time to have to organise repeat lectures or pool sessions for just one or two people.