British Sub-Aqua Club
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🤿 National Governing Body & training agency
🌊 Championing diving & snorkelling
🐟 Not-for-profit membership organisation
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🌊 Championing diving & snorkelling
🐟 Not-for-profit membership organisation
👌 Tag #BSACdivers
📖 The Jan/Feb issue of iSCUBA magazine is here, and with it the second part of the Warm Water Winter Travel Special,more stories from our writing competition, an intriguing new device from Garmin is reviewed and much more!
Jan/Feb 2026 issue of iSCUBA
Another six seasonal escapes in our Travel Special: Warm Water Winter Part 2, a climactic set of stories covering the Sound of Mull and Criccieth, Martin’s Haven, Lundy Island, Porthkerris Cove and St Kilda from our writing competition A Dive to Remember, Garmin’s S1 Descent Buoy in this month's Test Centre, and South Bay Scuba’s jamboree heads to Hartlepool... all in the January/February issue of iSCUBA magazine. Plus the latest BSAC news, updates from the diving world and so much more...
www.bsac.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:15 AM
📖 The Jan/Feb issue of iSCUBA magazine is here, and with it the second part of the Warm Water Winter Travel Special,more stories from our writing competition, an intriguing new device from Garmin is reviewed and much more!
Huge well done to @Jurassic Aqua Sports and all the divers who took part in their fifth annual Sant Dive and raffle - this year raising an amazing £1209 for the Weymouth RNLI! 👏
Despite less-than-ideal conditions, the divers all brought festive cheer and a brilliant time was had by all! 🎅
Despite less-than-ideal conditions, the divers all brought festive cheer and a brilliant time was had by all! 🎅
Santa divers get down for lifeboats at Christmas
Jurassic Aqua Sports in Dorset has made its usual contribution to festive cheer among scuba divers with the 2025 Christmas fundraiser for its local lifeboat
divernet.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Huge well done to @Jurassic Aqua Sports and all the divers who took part in their fifth annual Sant Dive and raffle - this year raising an amazing £1209 for the Weymouth RNLI! 👏
Despite less-than-ideal conditions, the divers all brought festive cheer and a brilliant time was had by all! 🎅
Despite less-than-ideal conditions, the divers all brought festive cheer and a brilliant time was had by all! 🎅
🎵 A number of studies have been assessing the impact of reduced shipping noise on the world’s oceans during the COVID pandemic.
👉 This is a fascinating article on the sounds of the underwater world and their significance to ocean health.
👉 This is a fascinating article on the sounds of the underwater world and their significance to ocean health.
Covid 2020: The year of the quiet ocean
During the lockdowns of 2020, global shipping was severely restricted and ocean noise pollution all but ceased. Instead the songs of fish filled the sea.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🎵 A number of studies have been assessing the impact of reduced shipping noise on the world’s oceans during the COVID pandemic.
👉 This is a fascinating article on the sounds of the underwater world and their significance to ocean health.
👉 This is a fascinating article on the sounds of the underwater world and their significance to ocean health.
🤿 Our eagerly awaited Deeper Diver Skill Development Course (SDC) is designed to enable Dive Leaders to plan for deeper diving - enabling them to eventually dive to a maximum depth of 50m using either trimix, nitrox or air.
👉 Learnmore about this new course: https://loom.ly/6xeHsLE
👉 Learnmore about this new course: https://loom.ly/6xeHsLE
BSAC launches Deeper Diver course for diving to maximum 50m
Deeper Diver provides Dive Leaders and above with the opportunity to safely extend their diving on open circuit up to 50m
www.bsac.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🤿 Our eagerly awaited Deeper Diver Skill Development Course (SDC) is designed to enable Dive Leaders to plan for deeper diving - enabling them to eventually dive to a maximum depth of 50m using either trimix, nitrox or air.
👉 Learnmore about this new course: https://loom.ly/6xeHsLE
👉 Learnmore about this new course: https://loom.ly/6xeHsLE
💙 Over the summer of 2025, Bracknell Sub Aqua Club members took part in two marine conservation projects along the south coast.
🙌 Bracknell’s Marine Champion, Matthew Arris, reports on how supporting the marine environment as a club is helping to make a difference.
🙌 Bracknell’s Marine Champion, Matthew Arris, reports on how supporting the marine environment as a club is helping to make a difference.
Bracknell BSAC champions citizen science with two marine conservation projects
Scuba dive club members took part in seagrass collection and a seahorse survey
www.bsac.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
💙 Over the summer of 2025, Bracknell Sub Aqua Club members took part in two marine conservation projects along the south coast.
🙌 Bracknell’s Marine Champion, Matthew Arris, reports on how supporting the marine environment as a club is helping to make a difference.
🙌 Bracknell’s Marine Champion, Matthew Arris, reports on how supporting the marine environment as a club is helping to make a difference.
🏆 Entries into BSAC’s annual Expeditions Trophy, which celebrates expeditionary adventures carried out over the past 12 months. are open until 31st December.
🤿 The Trophy is awarded annually to the expedition that is most in the ‘true spirit of adventurous and challenging diving’.
🤿 The Trophy is awarded annually to the expedition that is most in the ‘true spirit of adventurous and challenging diving’.
BSAC Expeditions Trophy 2025 open for entries
Adventurous and challenging diving celebrated by the annual award
www.bsac.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🏆 Entries into BSAC’s annual Expeditions Trophy, which celebrates expeditionary adventures carried out over the past 12 months. are open until 31st December.
🤿 The Trophy is awarded annually to the expedition that is most in the ‘true spirit of adventurous and challenging diving’.
🤿 The Trophy is awarded annually to the expedition that is most in the ‘true spirit of adventurous and challenging diving’.
🪼 Ever been stung by a jellyfish? Karen Boswarva looks at the science behind the defensive/ offensive mechanisms of jellies visiting her Orcadian shores.
How a jellyfish stings (and why it hurts)
Karen Boswarva looks at the science behind the defensive/ offensive mechanisms of jellies visiting her Orcadian shores
www.bsac.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
🪼 Ever been stung by a jellyfish? Karen Boswarva looks at the science behind the defensive/ offensive mechanisms of jellies visiting her Orcadian shores.
Congratulations to Manchester University Sub Aqua Club on 30 years of diving! 🥳
Joe Westnedge, BSAC's Uni Coach, visited the club last week to present them with their 30th Anniversary certificate for the achievement. 👏
Joe Westnedge, BSAC's Uni Coach, visited the club last week to present them with their 30th Anniversary certificate for the achievement. 👏
December 9, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Congratulations to Manchester University Sub Aqua Club on 30 years of diving! 🥳
Joe Westnedge, BSAC's Uni Coach, visited the club last week to present them with their 30th Anniversary certificate for the achievement. 👏
Joe Westnedge, BSAC's Uni Coach, visited the club last week to present them with their 30th Anniversary certificate for the achievement. 👏
🎄 Just a heads up that the BSAC HQ team won't be contactable from 4pm on Christmas Eve (24th December) until 2nd January.
🧑💻 Members will still be able to update membership details online using the self-service MyBSAC platform during this time.
👉 https://loom.ly/N3sHdiw
🧑💻 Members will still be able to update membership details online using the self-service MyBSAC platform during this time.
👉 https://loom.ly/N3sHdiw
BSAC HQ Christmas and New Year opening hours
The BSAC office closes at 4pm on Wednesday 24 December and will reopen on Friday 2 January when normal opening hours will resume
www.bsac.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🎄 Just a heads up that the BSAC HQ team won't be contactable from 4pm on Christmas Eve (24th December) until 2nd January.
🧑💻 Members will still be able to update membership details online using the self-service MyBSAC platform during this time.
👉 https://loom.ly/N3sHdiw
🧑💻 Members will still be able to update membership details online using the self-service MyBSAC platform during this time.
👉 https://loom.ly/N3sHdiw
Well done to Ipswich-based iDive club, who recently conducted a shoreline litter pick on the Suffolk coast, coordinated by their new Marine Champion, Glenn King! 👏
👉 Read the full story here: https://loom.ly/OQ_1znY
👉 Read the full story here: https://loom.ly/OQ_1znY
December 6, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Well done to Ipswich-based iDive club, who recently conducted a shoreline litter pick on the Suffolk coast, coordinated by their new Marine Champion, Glenn King! 👏
👉 Read the full story here: https://loom.ly/OQ_1znY
👉 Read the full story here: https://loom.ly/OQ_1znY
A few photos from Nottingham Sub Aqua Club's annual dive training trip to Capernwray. This annual trip saw a fresh group of Ocean Diver trainees become qualified, and they only started in October at the beginning of the academic year! 🥳
Huge well done to all! 👏
Huge well done to all! 👏
December 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
A few photos from Nottingham Sub Aqua Club's annual dive training trip to Capernwray. This annual trip saw a fresh group of Ocean Diver trainees become qualified, and they only started in October at the beginning of the academic year! 🥳
Huge well done to all! 👏
Huge well done to all! 👏
💰 We're offering 20% off everything in our online shop during our Black Friday sale - only from today until Sunday!
👉 Learn more and get the discount code here:
👉 Learn more and get the discount code here:
BSAC Black Friday weekend: 20% off everything!
Update your diving gear, refresh your training materials, or treat yourself to some stylish BSAC clothing
www.bsac.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
💰 We're offering 20% off everything in our online shop during our Black Friday sale - only from today until Sunday!
👉 Learn more and get the discount code here:
👉 Learn more and get the discount code here:
Divers from Neptune's Army of Rubbish Cleaners (NARC) have found what is suspected to be a Russian submarine detection device, during their last underwater clean-up dive of the season! 😳
What's the strangest thing you've found underwater? Let us know! 👇
https://loom.ly/Bc5wvKo
What's the strangest thing you've found underwater? Let us know! 👇
https://loom.ly/Bc5wvKo
Suspected Russian sonobuoy discovered off Pembrokeshire coast
A submarine expert says he is confident the recovered object is an imploded Russian sonobuoy.
www.bbc.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Divers from Neptune's Army of Rubbish Cleaners (NARC) have found what is suspected to be a Russian submarine detection device, during their last underwater clean-up dive of the season! 😳
What's the strangest thing you've found underwater? Let us know! 👇
https://loom.ly/Bc5wvKo
What's the strangest thing you've found underwater? Let us know! 👇
https://loom.ly/Bc5wvKo
📸 A few photos from Cambridge University Underwater Exploration Group (Scuba Diving - CUUEG)'s recent Ocean Diver training during a Diver Training Day at Capernwray. 👏
👉 To learn more and to book onto a DTD, head to bsac.com/divertrainingdays.
👉 To learn more and to book onto a DTD, head to bsac.com/divertrainingdays.
November 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
📸 A few photos from Cambridge University Underwater Exploration Group (Scuba Diving - CUUEG)'s recent Ocean Diver training during a Diver Training Day at Capernwray. 👏
👉 To learn more and to book onto a DTD, head to bsac.com/divertrainingdays.
👉 To learn more and to book onto a DTD, head to bsac.com/divertrainingdays.
🚨 Please be aware BSAC HQ team will be in training on Tuesday and Wednesday this week (25th and 25th November), with limited cover for phonelines.
📞 If your query is urgent please either leave a voicemail so a team member can get back to you, or email [email protected].
🤿 Thanks and safe diving!
📞 If your query is urgent please either leave a voicemail so a team member can get back to you, or email [email protected].
🤿 Thanks and safe diving!
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🚨 Please be aware BSAC HQ team will be in training on Tuesday and Wednesday this week (25th and 25th November), with limited cover for phonelines.
📞 If your query is urgent please either leave a voicemail so a team member can get back to you, or email [email protected].
🤿 Thanks and safe diving!
📞 If your query is urgent please either leave a voicemail so a team member can get back to you, or email [email protected].
🤿 Thanks and safe diving!
👀 We've all forgotten that one piece of kit as we pack for a dive trip! Getting ready for a UK dive trip is a serious undertaking, says Yo-Han Cha, as fate messes with carefully laid plans...
The challenges of planning and managing a UK dive trip
Getting ready for a UK dive trip is a serious undertaking, says Yo-Han Cha, as fate messes with carefully laid plans
www.bsac.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:15 AM
👀 We've all forgotten that one piece of kit as we pack for a dive trip! Getting ready for a UK dive trip is a serious undertaking, says Yo-Han Cha, as fate messes with carefully laid plans...
👏 Another day, another inspiring #BSACMarineChampions story! Exeter Sub Aqua Club's new Marine Champion Sally Richards has hit the ground running getting her club members involved in a Halloween-themed underwater litter pick.
👉 Ready the full article here: https://loom.ly/KX8go8I.
👉 Ready the full article here: https://loom.ly/KX8go8I.
November 21, 2025 at 9:15 AM
👏 Another day, another inspiring #BSACMarineChampions story! Exeter Sub Aqua Club's new Marine Champion Sally Richards has hit the ground running getting her club members involved in a Halloween-themed underwater litter pick.
👉 Ready the full article here: https://loom.ly/KX8go8I.
👉 Ready the full article here: https://loom.ly/KX8go8I.
🤿 Snorkelling doesn't necessarily restrict you to sticking close to the shore - in this article Andy Torbet considers the allure of heading to offshore sites in the UK and beyond, armed with just mask and snorkel.
The appeal of snorkelling offshore
Andy Torbet considers the appeal of snorkelling offshore sites away from the coast in the UK and beyond
www.bsac.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🤿 Snorkelling doesn't necessarily restrict you to sticking close to the shore - in this article Andy Torbet considers the allure of heading to offshore sites in the UK and beyond, armed with just mask and snorkel.
📖 December's issue of iSCUBA magazine is here!
🤿 Enjoy a lavish photo special and an interview with Ireland's leading underwater photographer, explanations on how to ready your dive gear for winter, advice for snorkelling with your children and a boat-load more!
🤿 Enjoy a lavish photo special and an interview with Ireland's leading underwater photographer, explanations on how to ready your dive gear for winter, advice for snorkelling with your children and a boat-load more!
December 2025 issue of iSCUBA
Enjoy our lavish photo special and interview with Ireland's leading underwater photographer, four more inspiring stories from our writing competition A Dive to Remember, Neil Hope explains how to winterize your dive gear, introducing Snorkel Instructor Edmund 'Spud' Elliott, and the Two Sophies offer advice for teaching the Controlled Buoyant Lift... all in the December issue of iSCUBA magazine. Plus the latest BSAC news, updates from the diving world and so much more...
www.bsac.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:15 AM
📖 December's issue of iSCUBA magazine is here!
🤿 Enjoy a lavish photo special and an interview with Ireland's leading underwater photographer, explanations on how to ready your dive gear for winter, advice for snorkelling with your children and a boat-load more!
🤿 Enjoy a lavish photo special and an interview with Ireland's leading underwater photographer, explanations on how to ready your dive gear for winter, advice for snorkelling with your children and a boat-load more!
👏 A huge well done to Cayman Islands Divers BSAC who, organised by their Marine Champion Samantha Cooper, have collected a whopping 28 bin bags of discarded polystyrene from a local beach!
🌊 If you'd like to sign up as the Marine Champion for your club, head to bsac.com/marinechampions.
🌊 If you'd like to sign up as the Marine Champion for your club, head to bsac.com/marinechampions.
Cayman Islands cleaned up thanks to Marine Champions
Twenty eight bin bags of discarded polystyrene have been removed from a local beach beauty spot by members of Cayman Islands Divers BSAC
www.bsac.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:15 AM
👏 A huge well done to Cayman Islands Divers BSAC who, organised by their Marine Champion Samantha Cooper, have collected a whopping 28 bin bags of discarded polystyrene from a local beach!
🌊 If you'd like to sign up as the Marine Champion for your club, head to bsac.com/marinechampions.
🌊 If you'd like to sign up as the Marine Champion for your club, head to bsac.com/marinechampions.
🎅 Get your Santa suits ready for another festive charity dive, this time at The Lake at Cromhall Quarry.
🤿 Scuba Santas returns on 13th December, for another fantastic day of festive fun and underwater cheer, all in support of two incredible charities - DDRC and Headway Gloucestershire.
🤿 Scuba Santas returns on 13th December, for another fantastic day of festive fun and underwater cheer, all in support of two incredible charities - DDRC and Headway Gloucestershire.
Buoy To The World! Scuba Santas Return To The Lake | The Lake
Get your Santa suits (and drysuits) ready, because the most festive dive of the year is back! Scuba Santas returns to The Lake on Saturday, 13th December.
thelakeuk.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🎅 Get your Santa suits ready for another festive charity dive, this time at The Lake at Cromhall Quarry.
🤿 Scuba Santas returns on 13th December, for another fantastic day of festive fun and underwater cheer, all in support of two incredible charities - DDRC and Headway Gloucestershire.
🤿 Scuba Santas returns on 13th December, for another fantastic day of festive fun and underwater cheer, all in support of two incredible charities - DDRC and Headway Gloucestershire.
🤿 Want to make a difference within BSAC? Candidate applications are now being accepted for the BSAC Election 2026!
👉 If you have the skills and enthusiasm to help drive forward the UK’s biggest diving club then we'd would like to hear from you.
👉 If you have the skills and enthusiasm to help drive forward the UK’s biggest diving club then we'd would like to hear from you.
Help shape the future of BSAC - stand for Election 2026
Candidate applications are being accepted for the BSAC Election 2026
www.bsac.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
🤿 Want to make a difference within BSAC? Candidate applications are now being accepted for the BSAC Election 2026!
👉 If you have the skills and enthusiasm to help drive forward the UK’s biggest diving club then we'd would like to hear from you.
👉 If you have the skills and enthusiasm to help drive forward the UK’s biggest diving club then we'd would like to hear from you.
👏 Well done to all who took part in BSAC Yorkshire Region's first Snorkel Instructor Training Course Assessment (SITCA).
🤿 Even for seasoned divers, snorkelling is a great way to put the heavy kit down and enjoy moving more freely in the water.
👉 Learn more about the course at bsac.com/sitca.
🤿 Even for seasoned divers, snorkelling is a great way to put the heavy kit down and enjoy moving more freely in the water.
👉 Learn more about the course at bsac.com/sitca.
November 15, 2025 at 9:15 AM
👏 Well done to all who took part in BSAC Yorkshire Region's first Snorkel Instructor Training Course Assessment (SITCA).
🤿 Even for seasoned divers, snorkelling is a great way to put the heavy kit down and enjoy moving more freely in the water.
👉 Learn more about the course at bsac.com/sitca.
🤿 Even for seasoned divers, snorkelling is a great way to put the heavy kit down and enjoy moving more freely in the water.
👉 Learn more about the course at bsac.com/sitca.
🗑️ Plastic pollution in the ocean could remain on the water's surface for more than a century, a new study has found
🌊 The scientists found that existing pollution would still float on the surface for more than 100 years, even if no more was dumped in the ocean.
🌊 The scientists found that existing pollution would still float on the surface for more than 100 years, even if no more was dumped in the ocean.
Plastic pollution spends a century on ocean surface, study finds
Scientists from HR Wallingford say the study provides critical insights into tackling plastic pollution.
www.bbc.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🗑️ Plastic pollution in the ocean could remain on the water's surface for more than a century, a new study has found
🌊 The scientists found that existing pollution would still float on the surface for more than 100 years, even if no more was dumped in the ocean.
🌊 The scientists found that existing pollution would still float on the surface for more than 100 years, even if no more was dumped in the ocean.
Congratulations to Denys Ilyushenko who has been welcomed as the new BSAC Regional Coach for the East Midlands region. 👏
We would like to thank Jeff Roberts for his past four years in the role, and for his continued support in welcoming and supporting Denys as he takes up the reins. 🙏
We would like to thank Jeff Roberts for his past four years in the role, and for his continued support in welcoming and supporting Denys as he takes up the reins. 🙏
Denys Ilyushenko welcomed as new BSAC East Midlands Regional Coach
The new Regional Coach for the East Midlands is able to offer help and enable diving across the region
www.bsac.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Congratulations to Denys Ilyushenko who has been welcomed as the new BSAC Regional Coach for the East Midlands region. 👏
We would like to thank Jeff Roberts for his past four years in the role, and for his continued support in welcoming and supporting Denys as he takes up the reins. 🙏
We would like to thank Jeff Roberts for his past four years in the role, and for his continued support in welcoming and supporting Denys as he takes up the reins. 🙏