It's Invasive Species Week, and we're seen it with our own eyes, there's an invasion of fluffy-clawed crabs along the North Wales Coast!
Though they look pretty (and who wouldn't want mittens as an accessory?!), they're bad news for the native species.
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Is this bank holiday weekend your first return to sea-diving in a while? Perhaps you've been diving in fresh water, or simply haven't been out recently! Whatever the reason, Jim, our resident BSAC safety expert, is on hand with some advice 👇 👇
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Are you joining The Great Seagrass Survey today?
Check out Jane Maddocks' top hacks for underwater survey success! And good luck to all surveyors out there!
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Seawilding - Native Oyster & Seagrass Restoration Project Seagrass ZSL Blue Marine Foundation

#FishFriday #Jokeoftheweek
What's the angler fish's favourite perfume?

Biolumin-essence

BSAC's own Adrian has been hard at work running the Instructor Foundation Course (IFC) last weekend at Nottingham - with 7 new assistant instructors from last weekend's event!

Find out more and book on to an upcoming IFC near you here:
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If you're out for the Great Seagrass Survey this weekend, and you're lucky enough to come across one of the UK's native seahorses, here's a bit of guidance.
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Happy Seagrass Surveying to all those taking part!
📸: The Seahorse Trust

This #InvasiveSpecies week, we ask you to Check, Clean and Dry* to make sure that you reduce the risk of spreading invasive species. They may predate, out-compete or otherwise just mess everything up for our native wildlife!

*we're talking about your boat and dive gear of course

With the Great Seagrass Survey just around the corner, we look at just how you go about mapping Seagrass!
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With: Seawilding - Native Oyster & Seagrass Restoration Project Seagrass ZSL Blue Marine Foundation

Was your pool given a grant?
So good to see some support for swimming pools to help them stay open at this time. The grants have already been awarded, so do let us know if your local pool was in receipt of one

.BaskingSharkScotland are running an event for The Great Seagrass Survey on 25th and 26th May this year! Sign up to do some good for the environment.
To run your own survey event, access our step-by-step guide here:
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This Mental Health Awareness Week, Eugene Farrell - BSAC National Instructor and Expert in mental health - offers some thoughts on diving and how we can be aware of the mental health of ourselves and those around us.
Read more👇
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Giving a glow up: new research shows that bioluminescence evolved 540 million years ago in the ocean
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#FishFriday #Jokeoftheweek
How do you have a chat with a fish?

Drop it a line!

Congratulations to Darren McDonagh of Worthing BSAC, who this week was presented with the BSAC Safety Award for the use of diving skills to save a life in a non-diving setting. Thank you for your quick actions, Darren, we are lucky to have you as part of the BSAC community!

It was a sunny weekend and a great time for the BSAC AGM!
In case you missed it, Simon Rogerson has done a great report - and you can watch what you missed by following the link below 👇 👇 👇
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Chasing that dream...
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We are thrilled to announce a new partnership with British Sub-Aqua Club, the NGB for scuba diving and snorkelling in the UK 🤿🐠

Discover more below!

It's #MentalHealthAwareness Week, and tonight BSAC are hosting a training course on Diving For All. Amongst other things, the course covers how to be a great buddy and be considerate of different mental health needs.
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If you need any more motivation to sign up for the Great Seagrass Survey in partnership with Seawilding - Native Oyster & Seagrass Restoration look no further than Andy Torbet's recent column
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We hope to see BSAC members at 10am this morning for our AGM!
You can view some Q&A ahead of the AGM here (BSAC members can login!)
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