Training Courses

Inspiration in 2020

By Andrew Moss October 2020 My first experience of a rebreather was on a Draeger Dolphin in the Red Sea in approximately 2003.   Not wanting to rush things, 15 years later in February 2018, I did a BSAC Try Tech CCR day in Capernwray and tried the Poseidon and AP Inspiration units.  A year later, …

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Re-breather Training

August 2014 by Nicola Faulks I learned to dive back in 1995 at university and never really thought about diving on anything other than open circuit. Then 3 years ago Simon got a re-breather. It beeped a lot. But he seemed to enjoy it. Being economical on air, I thought that I wouldn’t hold back …

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The Full-Face mask experience, 31st January & 7th February 2011

Read about us on the BSAC Website Not strictly a course report as such but instead an account of two recent club pool nights at which members had the opportunity to experience using a range of full-face masks. Normally associated with commercial rather than sport diving, full-face masks have a number of advantages when diving …

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Automated External Defibrillator (AED) Course, January 2011

An Automated External Defibrillator (AED) is a potential life saving machine which in certain circumstances can literary bring the dead back to life. The Club’s Diving Officer, Andy Hunt, perhaps mindful of an increasing number of members aged over 50, decided that this might an interesting but potentially life saving course to organise for the …

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Nautical Archaeology Society Introduction and Part 1 Courses, 8th-9th May 2010

With Club plans in full swing for the updated survey of a mysterious cannon site off the Farne Islands on the 40th anniversary of an original club project on the same site, a group from Tyneside 114 headed down to Hartlepool to undertake the Nautical Archaeology Society (NAS) Introduction and Part 1 courses. With this aim …

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Fuji/Inon Camera Demonstration, Fenham Pool, 7th January 2009

It sounded very promising, £10 for a session learning the basics of underwater photography with all the expensive photographic kit provided… The event itself was organised by the Newcastle Dive Centre, who deal with Inon and Fuji photographic products. Steve Warren from Ocean Optics made the long journey North with all sorts of goodies to …

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