This course provides you with the essential knowledge and skills needed to start open water diving. Learning to dive is all about learning to use your equipment properly and safely. The course starts with practice in a swimming pool or in sheltered water and continues to include four or five open water training dives (requiring a minimum of 120 minutes underwater). This is where open water skills and techniques are further developed and experience gained. The course material includes the excellent BSAC publications 'The Diving Manual' and Student Workbook for self-study and reference. At Simply Diving, Costa del Sol, Spain we have Nevin Elliot who is an Instructor fist Class.

An Ocean Diver is defined as a diver who is competent to conduct dives:

With another Ocean Diver or with a Sports Diver, within the restrictions of the conditions already encountered during their training.

With a Dive Leader or higher grade, to expand their experience beyond the conditions encountered during their training, under the supervision of a Dive Marshal.
to a depth which is initially limited to the maximum experienced during training, but which can subsequently be extended progressively
under the supervision of a Nationally Qualified Instructor (NQI), to a maximum of 20m
not requiring mandatory decompression stops
under the on-site supervision of a Dive Marshal with respect to site selection, conditions and dive plan
where other divers, capable of providing assistance and rescue, are available at the surface
within BSAC safe diving practices

Training beyond Ocean Diver requires Full Diving Membership of the BSAC