You’ve not been diving in a while. You’re keen to resume diving. But you’re concerned that you may:

• have forgotten how to put the dive gear together

• be worried about your buoyancy control

• not remember anything about the all-important rescue skills

No worries. Our BSAC Scuba Refresher session is just for you, whether you used to dive regularly, or whether you’ve just done a handful of dives, and whether you’ve been out of the water for six months or decades. It really doesn’t matter. Our instructors will make sure the session is tailored to you. After all, it’s what we do all the time… help people get back in the water.

What’s involved?

The session, conducted at Penarth Leisure Centre swimming pool, will help refresh your practical scuba skills up to BSAC Ocean Diver level or equivalents such as PADI Open Water or PADI Advanced Open Water level and by the end you should:

• Be able to assemble scuba equipment

• Be able to conduct a Buddy Check and have good buddy skills

• Be able to clear and replace your mask

• Be able to clear and replace a demand valve

• Have a good finning action

• Have good buoyancy control skills – have achieved a horizontal trim position underwater

• Have good rescue skills – full alternative source (AS) ascent and controlled buoyant lift (CBL) with tow

• Be confident with deeper entry and exit techniques

• Know the signals for ‘OK’, ‘stop’, ‘up’, ‘down’, ‘you watch me’, ‘you do’ and ‘something wrong’

• Be able to dismantle and wash down a scuba unit

Whatever training or support you’re looking for, we can help.

One of the great things about Cardiff BSAC club life is that as part of our club you have highly trained and experienced instructors ready and willing to teach and guide you every step of the way.

At Cardiff BSAC, we’ve been training divers for over 50 years, and can offer scuba diving courses for all levels of experience, including complete beginners, experienced divers seeking a more advanced dive rating, and divers crossing over from other training agencies, such as PADI