What’ s BSAC all about?
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Critter Confidential
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If you love diving and want to benefit from great training and an international community of scuba divers and snorkellers, you should get to know BSAC.
What’ s BSAC all about?
BSAC stands for British Sub-Aqua Club, and we are the UK National Governing Body of scuba diving and snorkelling. We have clubs, centres, and members worldwide who are all as passionate as we are about the underwater world.
We are Britain’ s biggest dive club, with hundreds of local clubs run by committed divers and snorkellers on a non-profit basis. With us, you can learn to dive from the age of 10 and snorkel from the age of six.
If you’ re already a diver, that’ s great! All divers are welcome at BSAC. You could further your training or just join us for some great diving. Or both!
As well as developing safety and training standards and supporting our community, we are also focused on the environment and underwater heritage to help protect the waters we love to dive and the earth we live on.
Have a look at this magazine to get a real feel for what we’ re about— we think you’ ll love what you read. To get involved, head to bsac. com, email us at info @ bsac. com or call 0151 350 6201. We’ d love to hear from you!
JOIN BSAC TODAY: bsac. com / joinus FIND YOUR LOCAL BSAC CLUB: bsac. com / findaclub or call + 44( 0) 151 350 6201
8 SCUBA HUB
All the latest BSAC and diving news
18 Critter Confidential
Celebrating the‘ bold and brotherly’ shanny
20 Kirsty Andrews
On stepping out of your scuba comfort zone
21 Yo-Han Cha
Never lets drama get in the way of a good dive trip!
23 Ocean Science
Karen Boswarva marvels at the defensive jelly
24 SCUBA Chat
Your letters and announcements
28 A Dive to Remember, part 3
Stories from our competition include: the hypnotic Strangford Loch + revisiting a scuba happy place + going wild at the Smalls + the guns of Brixham + wreck perfection + Farne-time fun
35 Learning Curve
Harbouring First Class Diver ambitions in the Red Sea
40 Double Take
Falmouth student’ s fresh vision for underwater photography
42 Test Centre
SEAC’ s new Tablet dive computer + Skull Scuba’ s kit cover bag + underwater readers from Seedeep
46 Volunteer Life
An interview with new National Instructor on the block, Daniel Craig
48 Protect Our Seas
+ Kerry McKay on the impact of coral bleaching + the shrinking clownfish + plastic flying rings danger + gold bullion trial + jury’ s out on Sharks on TV
52 Travel Special
Exploring the wonders of Naples’ sunken city
56 Snorkelling
Taking the tube offshore with Andy Torbet
58 Crossword
Another brain-teaser from the desk of Charles Wheeldon
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