BSAC Boat Handling Instructor Workshop (BHIW)

Name: BSAC Boat Handling Instructor Workshop (BHIW)
Start: 2026-03-14T09:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-03-15T17:00:00+00:00
Location: Jurassic Aqua Sports

Schedule

Sat, 14 Mar, 2026 at 09:00 am to Sun, 15 Mar, 2026 at 05:00 pm

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Location

Jurassic Aqua Sports | Weymouth, EN

We are running the pilot for the new BSAC Boat Handling Instructor Workshop (BHIW) which will take place at Portland on 14-15th March 2026.
Open to all BSAC Open Water Instructors who are also experienced Diver Coxswains, the new workshop aims to give members greater opportunity to become a Boat Handling Instructor. Once qualified, they will be able to teach BSAC's Boat Handling SDC within their own club.
Previously, suitably qualified members would need to assist on a course being run by an approved instructor, before being signed off as a Boat Handling Instructor. However, increasing demand has meant a backlog of members wanting to assist on a Boat Handling SDC. With the new BHIW, members now have more choice in the way they qualify as a Boat Handling Instructor.
Held over two days, the Boat Handling Instructor Workshop is an intensive course.
It includes two classroom sessions, but the majority of the time will then be spent
on the water. The practical water-based
SkI sessions inclIde boat walkaround and familiarisation, sheltered water handling, open water handling, anchoring and diving, as well as learning how to instruct such skills.
To participate in the new Boat Handling
Instructor Workshop, members need to be
an Open Water Instructor and current BSAC
member medically tit to dive, as well as a
BSAC Diver Cox'n with at least 20 logged boat handling hours and hold a RYA VHF SRC Radio certificate.
Spaces are currently available on the pilot workshop in Portland on 14-15 March cost £250.00
For more information and to book your place, go to https://bsac.sport80.com/public/wizard/e/459/home
Following the BHIW pilot, BSAC plans to roll the new workshop out across the regions.
For more further details email [email protected] or come as see us at the Go Diving Show in hall 2 stand 228.
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