FCD - Success
Stage four – Success
Once successful you will be invited to the Diving Officers Conference where their certificate will be presented by the First Class Chief Examiner and the National Diving Officer. As a shiney new First Class Diver you will be asked to write about your experiences for publication on the http://www.bsac.org website.
The person achieving the best performance on the First Class Diving assessment each year will receive a Kowalski torch in recognition of their achievement sponsored by Lighthouse diving.
First Class Divers are able to apply for the BSAC Expedition scheme grants which are designed to promote:
- Experience of BSAC members in safe but challenging expeditionary environments
- Personal improvement in diving experience / skill levels by groups of individuals who have the potential to cascade that experience to other members
- Improvement of a group of divers to aspire to a higher level of achievement by exposure to leadership or presence of a First Class Diver in an appropriately challenging expeditionary environment
- Inter-branch expeditionary diving and to ensure that cascade of experience occurs as broadly as possible
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Expeditions that would normally take place in the territory of origin of the group of divers rather than a ‘subsidised overseas holiday’.
ExperiencesOne of the best understandings you can gain of the First Class Diver Award is from the experiences of those going through the process and so we have included the Diary from 2005 of Simon Campbell (click on the funny face right !)
Simon's experiences culminated in he and I sharing the stage at DOC to present the two sides to the First Class Experience. For anyone not able to attend DOC the report of our Presentation can be viewed elsewhere on this site.
The ultimate recognition for many of the successful students is the award of their Certificates at the Annual Diving Officers Conference Recent Award winners can be viewed elsewhere in these pages and many have added their expereinces to the feedback linkded from those pages:
STOP PRESS - I am pleased to announce that following a generous offer of sponsorship from Lighthouse Diving the person achieving the best performance on the First Class Diving Examination each year will recieve in addition to their award a Kowalski torch in recognition of their achievement.Dave
Email - fcdchief@bsac.com
Any suggestions for further items for inclusion would be welcome and can be made to technical@bsac.com
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