HSE Professional Scuba (including FAW & O2)
Duration: 4 Weeks | Cost: £4,360.00 incl VAT
Shore based self-catering accommodation included
Pre Requisites
- Entry Level Recreational SCUBA Qualification (eg PADI Open Water or BSAC Ocean Diver. We can advise on additional acceptable qualifications)
- HSE Commercial Diving Medical
Course Aims
To train existing divers to undertake media, scientific and archaeological projects, as well as prepare candidates for the HSE Surface Supplied Course.
General
The HSE Professional SCUBA Course at CDT is an intensive full time residential programme designed to prepare candidates for media, scientific and archaeological diving projects.
The mandatory course content dictated by the HSE has been significantly expanded upon, built on our own extensive experience within the industry.
Dives will be undertaken from a variety of coded vessels including our 2 x 24m Ex Admiralty Fleet Tenders – MV Hambledon & Loyal Watcher, 12m Work Boat and 8.5m Rigid Hulled Inflatable Boat (RIB).
Practical tasks will be undertaken by all candidates, day and night, including preparation of project plans, risk assessments, survey reports, stills photography and small boat handling.
Certification
HSE Professional SCUBA
First Aid at Work & Oxygen Administration
CDT Recompression Chamber Operator
Theoretical Content
- Use of SCUBA in the commercial environment
- Legislation applicable to “Diving at Work”
- Commercial SCUBA Diving Equipment
- Underwater communication systems
- Emergency procedures
- Diving physics and physiology
- Use of Nitrox in commercial diving operations
- Decompression Theory
- Recompression Theory
- Underwater surveying and stills photography (archaeological and Scientific)
- Diving in support of media projects
- Manual Handling
- Small boat handling and basic seamanship
Practical Content
- Pre and post dive checks
- Emergency procedures
- Safe use of a wide variety of Commercial SCUBA equipment systems
- Half mask SCUBA
- Neutral pressure full face masks
- Positive pressure full face masks
- Kirby Morgan Band Masks
- Alternative Air Sources, gas switching blocks , Bail Out Systems etc
- Underwater Communication systems:
- Lifeline signals
- Hard Wire communications
- Wireless Through Water Comms
(Essentially every configuration and manufacturer of equipment commonly used in industry will be utilised during the course)
- Recompression Chamber Operation
- Chamber dive
- Acting as a tender inside a chamber
- Underwater surveying and stills photography
- Scientific Diving
- Basic Seamanship and small boat handling