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

Q & A

A:  If you can attend for the full 10 weeks it means you are ready for any job. If you only have Professional SCUBA but wish to be part of projects other than Media, Archeological or Scientific you will find employment limiting. You will definitely need HSE Surface Supplied if you wish to work under the HSE Inland/Inshore ACoP, and if you are doing 9 weeks of training you might as well do 10 and save money on the equipment package worth approx £1000.00.

A:  At this stage in your career you only need the basic diving qualifications and time in the water to build your experience and confidence, additional qualifications gained at dive school have little credibility when you are fresh out of training.  At CDT we give you the best diver training and more in-water time because this is what you need. During the CDT HSE Surface Supplied course you will also receive extensive tools training, FREE!  You need to get valuable time in the water, you might as well spend that time constructively to prepare you for industry.

A:  You need to hold a recreational diving qualification in order to start on the HSE Scuba Course with us. PADI Open Water / BSAC Ocean Diver or equivalent is accepted. You don’t need to have any experience though.

A:  The recreational and professional qualifications are totally different.  During the HSE Professional Scuba you will learn about Full Face Masks (AGA, EXO, KMB18/28), hard wire communications, through water communications, lifeline signals, decompression procedures, and Decompression Chamber procedures, none of which are taught within the recreational spectrum to this level. All of our staff are qualified recreational Instructors who fully understand the recreational training systems.  You will need the HSE Professional SCUBA qualification if you wish to undertake the HSE Surface Supplied Diver course.