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POOL TRAINING ITINERARY FOR SPORT DIVER QUALIFICATION.  WINTER 2007-2008.

 

31/10/2007.  Club Members to return all borrowed club equipment to Pool.

07/11/2007.  Start of Pool training for all new trainee's.

14/11/2007.   Pool training. ( Introduction to the Aqualung and SCUBA equipment)

21/11/2007.   Pool training. ( Continue with introduction to the Aqualung and SCUBA equipment)

28/11/2007.  Introduction to the club/ filling in ScotSAC and Borders forms.  Followed by 1 Hour pool session( swimming test).

LECTURES

All lectures will be conducted between 7-8pm in the lecture room followed by 1 Hour of Pool Training between 8-9pm.

 

DATE.

NO.

SUBJECT

INSTRUCTOR

05/12/2007.

1

Basic Equipment, signals and surfacing drills. Andrew Bunyan
12/12/2007.

2

Ears, sinuses and effects of pressure. Evan Thomson
19/12/2007.

3

Aqualung Use & Buoyancy Control. Dave Paterson
26/12/2007.

 

BREAK FOR CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR.  
02/01/2008.

 

BREAK FOR CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR.  
09/01/2008.

4

Burst Lung and Ascent in emergency. Ewan Simpson
16/01/2008.

5

Respiration, hyperventilation, anoxia and hypoxia. Dave Paterson
23/01/2008.

6

Exhaustion, protective clothing and hypothermia. Mhairi Palmer
30/01/2008.

7

Rescue, life saving and artificial respiration. Dave Paterson
06/02/2008

8

Principals of the aqualung, air endurance & cylinders. Evan Thomson
13/02/2008.

9

Maintenance of equipment and diving accessories.

Mhairi Palmer

14/02/2008   Deep water pool training. Edinburgh Commonwealth diving Pool. This is a Thursday Night and Starts 8pm SHARP.

ALL

20/02/2008.

10

Open water diving and dive procedure

Ewan Simpson

27/02/2008.

 

First Aid

Mags

05/03/2008.

 

CLUB A.G.M.

All

12/03/2008.

11

Basic Decompression, hazards and avoidance.

Andrew Bunyan

13/03/2008.

 

Deep water pool training. Edinburgh Commonwealth diving Pool. This is a Thursday Night and Starts 8pm SHARP.

ALL

19/03/2008.

12

ScotSAC and the organisation of its training program.

Evan Thomson

26/03/2008.  

Lecture Re-Cap

TBA

02/04/2008.  

Lecture Re-Cap

TBA

09/04/2008.  

Lecture Re-Cap

TBA

16/04/2008.  

Lecture Re-Cap

TBA

23/04/2008.  

Lecture Re-Cap

TBA

30/04/2008.  

Lecture Re-Cap

TBA

07/05/2008.

 

SPORT DIVER WRITTEN TEST PAPER.

NOTE.  No Pool session as we will be in the lecture room for 2 hours.

14/05/2008.

 

Organise equipment for open water diving

 

 

SPORT DIVER SCHEDULE & LECTURE NOTES.

To view and download the latest updated version (July 2006) of the SSAC Sport diver training schedule please click here  SPORT DIVER TRAINING.

To View and download the Sport diver Lecture Notes please click here.  Sport diver Lecture Notes.

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