Technical Commercial Diving Training Program
The Technical Commercial Dive Training program at Divers Academy International was developed to keep pace with the various demands of the commercial dive industry.
In as little as 5 months, you can be working as a professionally trained, technical commercial diver!
The Divers Academy International facility is designed as a real work-site environment with all open water training so students not only gain technical skills, but also develop the professional attributes that are attractive to employers.
The commercial scuba diving course, as it relates to commercial diving, will include nomenclature and function of equipment, pool training, charging air tanks, maintenance and safety precautions, and search procedures. PADI scuba certification is not included in this class but is available through the school.
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Orientation
Orientation will familiarize students with the Academy procedures.
Students will also be assisted in setting realistic personal achievements and goals.
Diving Physics & Physiology
Students will acquire the knowledge of the affects of pressure on the body. Through carefully planned instruction, the student will study pressure, how to select and calculate proper air supply and required proper breathing mediums, and the importance of buoyancy controls.
Medical Aspects of Diving
Students will receive training in Anatomy & Physiology and be instructed in the prevention and treatment of diving injuries. Students will further develop knowledge on primary & secondary effects of pressure on the body and be introduced to air and oxygen treatments tables. Students will also become familiar with environmental hazards and marine life.
Decompression and Treatment Tables
After understanding how pressure effects the body, students will continue with decompression. This course will include recompression chamber operations, decompression procedures, air decompression tables, repetitive dive tables, mixed gas (HeO2) decompression tables, routine and emergency dive medicine treatment tables, air and 02 treatment tables, surface decompression, and altitude diving procedures.
Communications
Because the diving professional must be able to communicate clearly and accurately, this course presents visual, voice and line pull communications.
Hyperbaric Chamber Operations
As a professional in the commercial dive industry, the individual will be required to use hyperbaric clambers to perform decompression dives 014 a regular basis. This course will cover hands-on chamber operations as inside and outside operators, time keeping, the importance of proper communications and intercom systems, various chamber piping systems, lock-out and lock-in procedures, and practical decompression runs.
Dive Tending
The ability to properly set up and maintain a safe dive station is the first responsibility an employer will assign. Students will acquire techniques in proper dressing and undressing the diver, water entry and descent, signals and communication, rate of ascent and decompression, and recording dive charts and time keeping. Students will be introduced to air systems, chamber operations, and dive helmet maintenance. Students will also continue to master dive charts and air decompression.
Diving Equipment
Students will become familiar with all the latest brands and styles of equipment currently used in the industry. They will be introduced to advanced commercial air and mixed gas dive helmets, including Superlite 17 helmets, Superlite 27 helmets, Desco commercial hard hats, Kirby Morgan band masks, and Miller diving helmets. Students will progress onto repair of dive helmets and diver's umbilical assembly. Students will be introduced to diver manifold systems with pneumofathometers, diver intercom systems, and air systems diagramming.
Underwater Projects
Today's workforce relies heavily on skilled entry-level personnel. This course will further refine and integrate practical skills with real world scenarios designed to build and correlate with the functions of the diving industry. As students rotate through a variety of responsible positions, they will learn to think critically and to make decisions that will develop techniques essential for successful careers.
Pipe Penetration
So much of our resources are pumped through pipelines or transferred through filtration systems. Divers must perform pipe inspections internally. This course will prepare students to effectively develop the skills required to operate safely in this environment.
Underwater Tools
Primarily all work sites use power tools. The most common tools used underwater are pneumatic and hydraulic. Upon completion, the student will be familiar with the use of drills, impact wrenches and grinders. They will have acquired hands-on training of hydraulic boom, airlifts and wrenches.
Underwater Welding and Cutting
As we enter the 21st century our underwater infrastructures are aging and in need of replacement and repair. Underwater welding and burning is one of the primary technical skills required by employers to carry out these demands. Students will ascertain the skill of Wet Shielded Metal-Arc Welding and underwater burning (then continue to develop and refine these skills through extensive practice). The student will continue to prepare for becoming a commercial diver and to meet the diverse skills required by industry employers.
Dan Oxygen Provider
Students will receive training in Anatomy and Physiology and be instructed in treating diving injuries. The hazards and benefits of oxygen will be covered in this course, as well as oxygen delivery systems. Upon completion, the student will have gained the knowledge for providing oxygen to an injured diver.
Rigging
Rigging skills and the ability to tie knots is a valuable skill for a diver to master. Students will learn to identify various fiber and synthetic lines and associated hardware. Students will become familiar with the concepts of computing safe working loads, master the skill of knot tying to include, bends, hitches, and splicing line and progress onto various essential rigging tools.
Salvage
This course will include salvage theory, types of vessel salvage, and stability factors & buoyancy. Students will be instructed in dewatering to methods, gas hazards, towing principles, cofferdams and the use of lift o bags. As rigging skills and diving skills are enhanced, students will o concentrate on combining skills to perform a boat salvage project.
Dive Boat Seamanship
Students will learn to perform in a real world environment from our boats and barges. Our Bull Dog 11 is a 481-work boat with a backhoe and a crane. This scenario is designed to give students the opportunity to refine and to integrate their commercial diving skills. Students will develop the skills of small craft safety and Rules of the Road.
Offshore Oil Operations
The offshore industry specializes in oil rig platforms, and pipeline inspection, maintenance and repair. Students will be introduced to the nomenclature of the various structures and will refine their skills while performing a pipeline flange assembly on our pipe line project, as they safely conduct surface decompression dives in the Hyperbaric Chamber.
Bridge Inspections
Bridge inspection requirements have increased substantially causing a large demand in the Inland commercial diving community. Students will be introduced to the proper nomenclature and bridge elements, how to evaluate damage, the various techniques for evaluating steel, to concrete and timber substructures and proper waterway evaluation based on the Manual 90 Standards for Bridge Inspectors.
Inspections / Report Writing
It is imperative for graduates to be able to read employers job plans. Students will be introduced to proper inspection procedures and will develop report writing skills and blue print reading, Job Hazard to Analysis, and material handling procedures.
Inland Diving Operations
Inland diving is fast becoming the leading area of growth in the commercial diving industry due to the evolving diversity in to technology and increasing regulations governing Inland structures. To Working in the country's rivers requires special skills and procedures for zero visibility diving and working with fast moving currents and tidal changes. Being located on one of the country's largest inland water ways, students will experience the river conditions daily. They to will become proficient in pile inspections, vessel inspections, intake structures, dams, water treatment plants, traveling water screens and to be able to perform a pipe penetration inspection on our pipe line to system project.
Safety Standards
Safety standards will cover OSHA and Coast Guard Regulations, as well as, the ADC Consensus Standards of safe dive practices and all of our affiliated association industry safety standards.
First Aid & CPR
This course will provide students with the knowledge and skills. If necessary to prevent, recognize, and provide basic care for injuries and sudden illnesses until advanced medical personnel arrive.
Hot Water Systems
Students will experience diving hot water systems while performing open water mixed gas dives. They will be exposed to the safety procedures required when working in and around hot water systems. This is a sought after skill by employers that work with Mixed Gas and adverse weather conditions.
Underwater Photography
This course has been designed to introduce students to the technology of underwater camera operations. Students will progress on to inspection photos of underwater structures.
Underwater Video, Monitoring & Recording Devices
This course will introduce students to the various applications for underwater videography and monitoring equipment. Today's workplace relies heavily on informational data collected through the use of video monitoring.
Job Placement
As students near the completion of their training, efforts must be geared to finding that long awaited job. In this course, students will be introduced to job seeking techniques that will aid in finding that job. Assistance with creating resumes, employer contact list and placement assistance will be provided.
Mixed Gas Diving
This course will introduce students to one of the most advanced phases of diving. Emphasis will be placed on the types of gases used in diving.
Students will further develop the concepts of operating a mixed gas rack and performing open water mixed gas dives from a diving stage.
Saturation
This course will introduce students to the concepts of saturation systems and personnel transfer capsules and the various life support systems commonly used by employers.
Remotely Operated Vehicles
ROV's are one of the most advanced pieces of search and recovery equipment in today's industry. This course will introduce students to operations, field maintenance and search procedures. Students will continue to develop and refine their skills.
Non-Destructive Testing
Retrieving data for evaluation has become an essential part of inspecting structures for strength and soundness. Technology has revolutionized non-destructive inspection abilities. The most popular underwater application is ultrasonic. This course is taught by Agfa, one of the leading manufactures of NDT equipment. Students will be instructed in Level l NDT Ultrasonic testing to be able to perform dependability and inspection techniques. Level 11 enables interpretations of the readings typically performed by engineers. Level 11 NDT/UT scholarships are awarded to the top achiever in each class.
Diver Medical Technicians
Some industry employers will give extra compensation to divers who possess an EMT certification when contracts located in remote location require such. Students wishing to pursue this certification will be referred to one of the local Philadelphia hospitals to gain the required EMT certification.
- Total Classroom Hours....................................................................... 232
- Total Practical Experience .................................................................. 488
- Total Program Hours ............................................................................720
- Total Hours Per Week ..........................................................................36
- Total Number of Weeks .......................................................................20
* A clock hour is equal to 50 minutes of training.
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