Pentland
Sub-Aqua Club

Welcome to Pentland Sub-Aqua Club's
Training Page

Pentland Sub-Aqua Club has a number of useful training videos (sadly clean ones) that members can borrow, These videos are

Diver Emergency Surface Locatation Devices
Oxygen First Aid in Diving Emergencies
Deep Trouble
Cold Water Casualty
Dive Safely
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning (Treatment & Recovery)

The links below will open up a new browser window. Due to the fairly intensive graphics content of some of the lectures, it may take a bit of time for the page to load. Don't e-mail us to grump about it ... you are getting them for free, and, yes... you can print them off as you need. When you wish to return to this page, just close the new browser window !!!
If you have any problems with the lectures, then please let us know, so we can remedy the problem.

Sport Diver Lectures

  • ScotSAC Sport Diver Lectures Notes (3.91Mb)

    The following Lectures are the ScotSAC produced powerpoint lectures covering all Sport Diver Lectures

  • ScotSAC Sport Diver Lectures Introduction
  • Basic Equipment
  • Ears, Sinuses and Pressure
  • Aqualung and Buoyancy
  • Respiration Hypoxia Anoxia Drowning & Hyperventilation
  • Burst Lung and Emergency Ascent
  • Hypothermia and Protective Clothing
  • Rescue and Lifesaving
  • Principles of Aqualung
  • Equipment Maintenance
  • Open Water Diving
  • Decompression
  • SSAC Organisation


  • Master Diver Lectures

  • Expedition Organisation
  • Underwater Navigation and Search Methods
  • Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide and Carbon Monoxide Poisoning


  • Appendices

  • FAQ's about Diving for Women
  • Diving with Diabetes
  • Diving with Asthma
  • Diving with High Blood Pressure
  • Diving after Decompression Illness
  • Diving with Back Injury
  • Headaches & Diving

  • Diving Log Sheet
  • Oxygen Administration Log Sheet
  • Beaufort Wind and Sea Scale

  • Deep Diving
  • Wreck law