The nautical history of the UK, the busy shipping lanes and many shipping casualties from two World Wars, in which the UK was heavily involved, has provided over 44,000 shipwrecks distributed around the coastline, a significant proportion of which are visited by UK divers. His grandfather Philip, father Charles, and brother Harry all trained with BSAC.The nature of diving in the United Kingdom Types of dive site The 17,000 km coastline of the United Kingdom (UK) is highly diverse with over 1,000 islands that provide a wide range of habitats for divers to explore including wrecks, caves, reefs, walls, piers, kelp forests and inland rivers and lakes. The current President of BSAC is the Prince of Wales. Science writer and science fiction author Arthur C. BSAC also maintains links with other organisations, such as NACSAC. Specifically it places emphasis on rescue training very early in the programme. Given that UK waters are relatively cold and have restricted visibility, BSAC training is regarded by its members as more comprehensive than some. The new logo, as of 2017, features a diver with the updated BSAC motto "Dive with us".īSAC is unusual for a diver training agency in that most BSAC instructors are volunteers, giving up their spare time to train others, unlike many other agencies, in which instructors are paid employees, or self-employed.
The old logo featured the Roman god Neptune (Greek god Poseidon), god of the sea.
It is a diver training organization that operates through its associated network of around 1,100 local, independent diving clubs and around 400 diving schools worldwide. The club was founded in 1953 and at its peak in the mid-1990s had over 50,000 members declining to over 30,000 in 2009.
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