Course Code: 505
Start Date: NA
Duration: 3 Days
This course is designed to give candidates with little or no experience of commercial or military diving a basic understanding of commercial diving procedures and practices.
The course includes:
Roles responsibilities and duties of the Dive Technician
- Understanding of Diving Physics, Boyles, Daltons, Henrys, Charles Laws
- Career Structure
- IMCA Code of Practice
- Working in the offshore environment
- IMCA design and record keeping
- Stock Control
- Helmets and Umbilical’s
- Basic Diving Systems, SCUBA, SSDE Air, SSDE Nitrox, SSDE Mixed Gas, Sat
- Diving Medicine, Gas Toxicity, Decompression Illness
- Gas production Equipment
- Divers Environmental Protection
- Oxygen Safety and Handling
- Basic divers control panel
- Gas analysis equipment
- Gas distribution equipment
- Project equipment, Hydra-tight, Air & Hydraulic Tools, Cutting / Welding Equipment
Upon completion of the foundation course there is a written Interdive examination, requiring a 70% minimum pass mark.
Whilst this foundation course gives the basic understanding of diving operations, the candidate must remember that if he/she is planning on working in the offshore environment the following IMCA prerequisites also apply:
Job Category: Dive Technician D12
Entry Level Qualifications / Acceptance Criteria
Detailed knowledge of one or more of the following fields is preferential in electrical, mechanical or hydraulic engineering, to be obtained:
- Through a trade qualification
- Valid training/competence certificate OR
- Through advanced academic education Documentary proof of qualification(s)
- Through experience and qualification in a military environment Military service qualification
- Through extensive experience in previous employment Industrial experience reference(s)
