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Boat Handling Theory SDC, now postponed until a later date.

23 July 2022 @ 10:30 - 24 July 2022 @ 16:30

Free

This event has been postponed to a later date, due to a lack of available students                                      BSAC’s Boat Handling course is great fun and is ideal for anyone wanting to learn about rigid-hulled inflatable boats (RIBs) and how to drive them.

It’s a practical boat-based course that gives each student plenty of time at the helm of a small dive boat to practise their skills, including how to drop and recover divers safely. Some boat insurers require any person driving a boat to have an approved boat-handling qualification.

Who is the course for?

The Boat Handling course is open to anyone aged over 14 and it’s a great way to get non-divers involved in the club, especially if they have family members who dive. No diving qualification is necessary to take part.

The skills you’ll learn. (Practical skills will be scheduled once the boat is back from refurb)

You will be out and about in boats on both days of this two-day course, which includes a mix of four theory, two dry practical and three open-water practical sessions aboard a RIB. You will learn about the responsibilities of owning, towing and driving a boat, and how to launch and recover it.

With a maximum of three students per instructor in sessions on the water, you will learn how to drive the boat and will have plenty of hands-on time to practise a range of boat manoeuvres to improve your boat-handling skills and safely drop off and recover divers on a dive site.

Practical skills include high-speed driving, slow-speed manoeuvring, anchoring and coming alongside. You will develop your overall seamanship skills, including voyage planning, essential rules of the road and learn the actions to take in an emergency.

What You’ll be able to do.

A Boat Handler is defined as someone who is:

  • Aware of their responsibilities.
  • Able to voyage plan considering weather, tides and local area.
  • Able to prepare, launch and recover a small boat.
  • Competent to drive a boat safely while conducting diving operations.
  • Able to safely drop and recover divers at a dive site.

 

Please note – The branch has a requirement of Min 8 hours boat handling (signed off by OWI / Boat handler)
And numerous demonstrations of safe practice launch and recovery.

Please purchase the Boat handling pack from BSAC at a cost of £52.00

you must share your URN with Mike Rickard (Diving officer)

There will be additional costs associated with the practical element of this course.

Details

Start:
23 July 2022 @ 10:30
End:
24 July 2022 @ 16:30
Cost:
Free
Event Category:

Organiser

Mike Rickard
Email:
divingofficer@subcdivers.co.uk

Venue

Atherton & Tyldesley Botanical Gardens
232 Tyldesley Road
Atherton,ManchesterM46 9AEUnited Kingdom
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