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History• 1979 – RN Ship’s Diver and Supervisor
• 1979 – 2005 – Went diving!• 2005-2012 – OIC JSSADC• Today – Diving Officer PDCSAC
• BSAC Instructor Trainer• Contract Instructor JSSADC• BSAC DTP Review Team - DM• CCF Dive Team
• BSAC NI and FCD, PADI OWSI
Contents of My Mess Tin
The SADS Scheme
BSAC Dive Management Training
Some thoughts on the future of teaching and assessing DM
Back to Basics
• SADS system is based on the BSAC Diver Training Programme (DTP)
• We add the MOD regulations
• Plus Dynamic Dive Management training
BSAC DTP
• A lot of DM training across the Diver Grades
• It starts at Ocean Diver level – but not everyone realises that!
• Dive Leader and Advanced Diver are the cornerstones of DM training
• They are the grades we use to underpin the SADS system
What do we do that is Different?
Centralised Training
A Single Training Team – trained to teach and assess DM
A strength and a weakness?
Critical Difference
Dynamic Dive Management
The way the SADS courses and assessment use the BSAC DTP
The SADS Value
SADS put your hands up
Hands down if you did NOT have passing the assessment reported on your OJAR/SJAR
Has it ever appeared on your report?
So What?We have 150 SADS registered today
(Of those about 15 work in the Centres/DST)
135 SADS
41 are BSADS
The “Non-availables”/ASI
The Balancing Act
AT Authorities need “Bums on Seats”
We need some “headline” expeditions
Lots of divers on courses and expeditions
The Out of Balance Bit!• The SADS to make all this happen come
from the Single Service Associations
• The vast majority of Service divers are not in the Associations
• The Associations have about 2,000 members – 0.97% of the Services
• SADS are about 6% of Association divers
Force Structure 2020Same percentage of divers gives us about 1300 Association members
Same percentage of SADS gives about 80 SADS
More AT in the programme as contingent ops have finished (ish!)
Need to up the conversion rate to SADS
Linked Issues
Time off to get to the AT Centres (ESADS package requires two weeks to complete)
Getting the students from the courses into the Associations
The SADS Value
Demanding leadership and management qualification (not rank based)
Get it on the OJAR/SJAR and sell it
Non-contingent era – target the junior leader with something that can help get
them promoted
The Gold Standard?
• Maybe a bit arrogant
• Maybe a bit complacent
• But it is a proven system that works well for us today
Components of DM• Dive Planning
• Dive Briefing
• Site Set up and Management
• Practical Rescue Management
• Post Dive Activities
A Missing Component
We do teach Advanced Instructors to teach DM in the new AI course
I’m not sure we teach Dynamic Dive Management as well as we could
A Possible BSAC Outcome
Dive Management modules at:
Entry Level (Personal DM)
Development Level (Buddy DM)
Leadership Level (Team DM)
Advanced Level (Team DM)
Delivered by OWIs and AIs
BSAC Instructors trained to deliver
Dive Management at those levels
Opportunity for the SADS Scheme?
Could we deliver the Branch SADS through Distributed Training?
BSAC DM qualification plus a presentation on BR2806 (5)
Practical Session – Dynamic Dive Management
Expedition SADS
ESADS Development Course delivered through Distributed Training by appropriately qualified instructors (ESADS/AI?)
ESADS Assessor to attend as Quality Assurance
ESADS Assessment held centrally at JSSADC
Training the Trainer
SADS Refresher Course
Add a training module
Add a two or three day Train the SADS Trainer course to the JSSADC programme
DST to provide the BR2806 (5) training module
Possible Advantages
Less time away from units for candidates
More courses
Quality Assurance in place
Utilizes the new BSAC DTP to support the training of SADS
Non Diver Dive Manager
There is a demand within the BSAC
- Role for families/friends
- Role for those who want to dive but medically can’t
What would you need to teach in addition to the DM skills to achieve this?
The Centres• Deliver the courses to support the AT
Scheme• Help deliver the “Bums on Seats” • Deliver the Instructors for Distributed
Training• Deliver the diving equivalent of the Ocean
Racers – CCR, TRIMIX, Advanced Diving Techniques
• Deliver the ESADS Assessment
This is only one thought on a possible way ahead!
The Services are changing – what will Force 2020 actually look like?
The BSAC DTP is changing – delivery in 2016/17 is the target
My Aim – to stimulate that discussion
• I’ve offered just one option – there are plenty more you will come up that will be better
• I can only offer one guarantee – change will happen and it is better to shape the battlespace ahead of the event.