S. Thomas' College Sub-Aqua Club

Depth Progression with the STCSAC.

BSAC Sports Divers (SD) Navin and Janitha successfully completed their SD depth progression to 30m over two 5m incremental dives over the weekend at Medhufaru.

We were also happy to have past club president join us on a club dive since he left school.

BSAC Sports Diver Programme 2024 with the STCSAC.

Congratulations to both Navin and Janitha on successfully completing the BSAC Sports Diver (SD) Programme this weekend.

We wish you both all the very best in your diving careers.

A total of 4 SD qualifications were awarded by the Club for 2024, raising the number of Club SD qualifications to 7.

A big thank you to our volunteer SD and equivalent grade Club divers , , and , for their time and commitment to assist our Instructor compete this programme amidst their busy schedule's.

Season's 1st Club Dive at MV Medhafaru | 19 Jan 2025 with STCSAC

Three certified divers accompanied by the Club DO set out in gloomy, wet conditions but calm seas.

Primarily a pleasure dive, was also a Depth Progression dive to 30m for BSAC Sports Diver .

We met a happy couple on their honeymoon on our way to the dive site (viewer discretion pls as the footage is PG16).

BSAC Sports Diver Programme 2024 foreign exchange studen Martina with the STCSAC.

SO2 - Surface Marker Buoy

A Sports Diver is expected to be familiar with many types of equipment that would aid them in whatever the dive they plan to do for a known site.

One such piece of equipment is a SMB. Knowledge of when, where and how to use one is important for the safety of both divers in a buddy group.

Need to know...
• Be able to use the SMB during all phases of a dive
• Understand the impact of the environment on the use of the SMB and vice versa
• Further practice and refinement of buoyancy and trim skills to gold standard

Our thanks to Sports Diver for assisting Instructor as Martina's buddy on this module.

BSAC Ocean Diver Programme 2023 - OO2 Group 2.

Two present boys of the STCSDU, Michael and Charis completed their must know Basic skills and progressed with their exploration dive required that gradually increased their depth experience from MoD 5m in OO1 to 10m over OO2.

We thank parent and founder member Ravin for accompanying our instructor to maintaining our safety standards.

BSAC Ocean Diver Programme 2023 - OO2 to OO4 Group 1 Certifications.

The STCSAC saw its 2nd and 3rd BSAC students complete their open water practical lessons over the weekend.

Must know Basic and Rescue skills complete, they progressed with the 3 explorations required that gradually increased their depth experience from MoD 5m in OO1 to 10, 15 and 18m over OO2 to OO4.

We congratulate both students, Serene and Arham for their hard work to becoming BSAC Ocean Diver.

We wish you happy diving this West Coast dive season.

We would also like to thank our volunteer BSAC Sports Divers , for assisting with their Certifications.

Happy diving.

STCSAC BSAC divers celebrating 30 and 70 years of diving respectively.

Celebrating 30 years today, being the 1st and only School Scuba diving club to produce Safe, Competent divers for the future.

Scuba Regulator Configurations

The majority of diver training operators in Sri Lanka are accredited to PADI the global leader in scuba training and a few SSI operators.

All such operators configure and train students to use the common reg setup of SPG, BCD inflator hoes to the left and both primary and secondary DV's to the right (see image 1).

We on the BSAC programme of qualifications however configure our reg such our secondary DV, BCD inflator hose is to the left and the primary DV, SPG console is to the right (see image 2).

So what you may ask?

1. What if a buddy pair are both of different configurations?

2. Have they been trained to handle out of air or rescue situations when a buddies configuration is different to what they were trained?

These are but a few practical situations you may encounter when you dive overseas.

We at the STCSAC teach our students to be able to dive with any buddy, using any configuration.

The key is to carry out a thorough pre dive buddy check and knowledge share what process is to be followed in either situation.

After all, it's about enjoying a dive in the safest way possible.