BSAC sports EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% score (Newest 2025) When can a sports diver dive with an ocean diver or another sports diver? - Correct Answers ✅In conditions already encountered by the ocean diver during their training and under the supervision of a dive manager.What's the initial limited depth for a sports diver? - Correct Answers ✅20m What's the progressively extended depth of a sports diver? - Correct Answers ✅35m Is a neap tide small or large? - Correct Answers ✅Small Is a spring tide small or large? - Correct Answers ✅Large What causes a neap tide? - Correct Answers ✅When the Moon is at a right angle to Earth and the Sun, creating the least amount of gravitational pull in one direction, creating weak tides.What causes spring tides? - Correct Answers ✅The gravity of the sun and moon pull in the same direction, creating strong tides.Neap tides coincide with what? - Correct Answers ✅The quarters of the moon 1 / 4
BSAC sports EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% score (Newest 2025) Spring tides coincide with what? - Correct Answers ✅New and full moon What's the average tide cycle in most places? - Correct Answers ✅12 hours How many tide cycles in a day? - Correct Answers ✅2 How many high tides in a day? - Correct Answers ✅2 How many low tides are there in a day? - Correct Answers ✅2 How many times do spring tides occur in a lunar month? - Correct Answers ✅2 How many times do neap tides occur in a lunar month? - Correct Answers ✅2 What's the tidal range? - Correct Answers ✅High water - low water What's slack water? - Correct Answers ✅At the tides turning point, when the water speed is at its slowest. 2 / 4
BSAC sports EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% score (Newest 2025) What can make diving on a static site (e.g. a wreck) safer? - Correct Answers ✅Diving in slack water What is ground swell? - Correct Answers ✅When wind causing wave action on the surface can be felt on the sea bed.When is ground swell the roughest? - Correct Answers ✅When the surface winds go against the tide/stream/current flow.Is an incoming or outgoing tide better for visibility? - Correct Answers ✅Incoming What are five factors that can affect visibility? - Correct Answers ✅- bad weather
- tides
- being close to river estuaries
- lots of phytoplankton + zooplankton (most likely to be a
problem in spring in most places.) -disturbance by divers. 3 / 4
BSAC sports EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% score (Newest 2025) What's a thermocline? - Correct Answers ✅Sudden change in temperature, may look oily/ shiny and produce a change in visibility What can you do to reduce the effect of glare on the surface (as a boat crew member, not a diver?) - Correct Answers ✅- wear polarised sunglasses
- position the boat with the sun behind you
- service equipment
- back up supply of gas
- pre agreed narcosis check (at agreed depth or gas level)
- practiced rescue skills
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What are four things you should take into account when doing a risk assessment? - Correct Answers ✅Conditions, depth, breathing gas and equipment As neoprene wetsuits compress, there is a loss of what? - Correct Answers ✅Thermal insulation What precautions can you take to minimise the risk of a dive to yourself and your buddy? - Correct Answers ✅-don't dive if you're unsure