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Air diving system technician
Equipment used to support and conduct diving operations requires technicians for its installation, maintenance, inspection, testing and repair. The correct functioning of the equipment is essential to the well-being of the divers and other members of the dive team. Contractors who use the services of dive technicians have an obligation to ensure that personnel are correctly trained and have the required level of competence for the equipment and in the operations they are conducting.
Course Content
- Industry overview & diving techniques
- Legislation
- Diving physics & effects of pressure on divers
- Diving systems
- Planned maintenance systems PMS
- Plant and equipment
- Life support systems
- Oxygen cleaning
- ACOPS for diving operations
- Industry standards and guidelines (IMCA)
- Gas analysis, gas handling, fittings, valves & reducers, gauges, regulators.
- Diver and chamber reclaim system
- ·Breathing resistance and equipment testing
- Built In Breathing System BIBS
- Diving Umbilicals
- Air Compressors
- Pressure testing
- Suits and repair
- Harnesses
- Pipe bending
- Dive system mobilisation & commissioning
Course Certificate
Candidates who have attended and successfully completed the course will be awarded MECD Air Diving System Technician competence certificate outlining the course content.