Customized Diving Safety Training
Course Overview
Commercial diving in support of offshore and marine operations is among the highest-risk activities in the industry. This customized program is built around your organization’s diving operations, equipment, and procedures, covering diving hazards and physiology, dive team roles, dive planning and risk assessment, diving equipment and systems, emergency procedures, and the interface between diving operations and the installation or vessel – aligned with recognized diving standards (IMCA/ADCI guidance) and ADNOC requirements.
Every simulator in this course opens with a mandatory Risk Assessment Gate — identify the hazards, set the controls, and confirm the residual risk before the “permit to simulate” is issued — and every scenario injects live condition changes that demand dynamic risk assessment and Stop Work decisions, exactly as the field does.
Interactive Training Games
Manage ascent rate, air, safety stops, and a snagged umbilical in a live dive profile with DCS-risk physics.
Command the dive site through a comms failure to standby-diver deployment.
Catch the symptoms the diver calls ‘just tired’.
Roles, SIMOPS, isolations, and the pre-dive sequence.
Who Should Attend
- Diving supervisors and dive team members
- Dive tenders and life support personnel
- Offshore installation and vessel crews interfacing with diving operations
- Marine and project engineers
- HSE officers overseeing diving activities
- Client representatives and diving contractors
What You Will Learn
- Identify the principal hazards of commercial diving operations.
- Explain diving physiology fundamentals and pressure-related illnesses.
- Describe dive team composition, roles, and minimum manning.
- Prepare dive plans, risk assessments, and emergency contingency plans.
- Apply safe procedures for surface-supplied and SCUBA operations as applicable.
- Manage the diving–installation interface: SIMOPS, permits, and isolations.
Course Curriculum
Standards, Modes & the Dive TeamINTERACTIVE LESSON
Physiology: Pressure Is the HazardINTERACTIVE LESSON
Bring Your Diver HomeTRAINING GAME
Dive Planning, SIMOPS & the Installation InterfaceINTERACTIVE LESSON
Emergency Drill: Lost CommunicationsINTERACTIVE LESSON
Umbilical Management & Equipment CareINTERACTIVE LESSON
Diving Project Risk Assessment & Contingency PlanningINTERACTIVE LESSON
Definitions & Key TerminologyREFERENCE
Standards References & Further ReadingREFERENCE
Final ExamFINAL EXAM
Standards & References
Certification
Complete all lessons and pass the final examination (70%) to receive an accredited USQC certificate, verifiable online through the USQC Certificate Verification portal. Corporate packages are available based on the number of participants and training scope, aligned with UAE market standards.
Curriculum
- 2 Sections
- 12 Lessons
- 12 Weeks
- Lessons9
- 1.1Standards, Modes & the Dive Team
- 1.2Physiology: Pressure Is the Hazard
- 1.3Bring Your Diver Home
- 1.4Dive Planning, SIMOPS & the Installation Interface
- 1.5Emergency Drill: Lost Communications
- 1.6Umbilical Management & Equipment Care
- 1.7Diving Project Risk Assessment & Contingency Planning
- 1.8Definitions & Key Terminology
- 1.9Standards References & Further Reading
- Final Exam4
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