BSAC’s Chartwork and Position Fixing course is a hands-on course designed for anyone wanting to learn and practise the navigation skills needed to plan more adventurous diving and put diving projects with a purpose into action within a club or centre.

Who is this course for?

The Chartwork and Position Fixing course is open to anyone and it’s a great way to get non-divers involved in the club, especially if they have family members who dive, as the course covers dive-trip planning and practical surface-navigation skills. No diving qualification is necessary to take part.

The skills you will learn.

This two-day course includes a day afloat to consolidate your practical navigation skills following a day of theory sessions, dry practical sessions, and planning.

You will develop your overall knowledge of planning for more exciting exploratory diving, including:

• learning about what nautical charts can tell you
• working out the tides
• how to fix your position at sea
• how to locate dive sites
• how to plan and carry out a voyage

What you’ll be able to do.

At the end of the Chartwork and Position Fixing course you will be able to find enough useful information about potential dive sites from nautical charts and other resources to get involved in planning diving to sites that your club may not regularly visit, and will have the practical skills to carry out your voyage plans.

After completing the Chartwork and Position Fixing course you will have the skills and confidence to help organise more adventurous diving for your club.

If you want to attend this SDC – You must purchase a Chartwork and positioning back from BSAC £35.50
you must also share your URN (Unique Reference number with Mike Rickard (Diving officer.)