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COMMERCIAL DIVER COURSES |
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NACDS
is a recognized Training and Certification Agency for
Commercial Divers.
COURSE OBJECTIVE The primary objective of the NACDS Commercial Diver and Commercial Diving Supervisor Course is to insure that graduates are able to safely and effectively perform or supervisor the necessary duties for each dive team station, both topside and underwater. Commercial divers should have advanced diving knowledge and skills, with substantial open water diving experience in a variety of environmental conditions. Certified Commercial Divers should be proficient at working underwater with Scuba, Tethered Scuba and Surface-supplied Diving Systems with Voice Communication.
The Basic Commercial Diver Course consists of:
Minimum class size is 6 students. Training schedules may be finalized among class students. The training will be scheduled in three phases: Phase 1
Phase 2
Each student learns how to
perform at the six duty stations for a surface-supplied dive team, which includes:
Diver, Tender,
Safety Diver, Air Console
Operator, Record Keeper, and
Team Supervisor. Phase 3 Commercial diving projects, tailored to the specific skills that are appropriate for that team. We may be working with marine engineers, boat maintenance divers, public service rescue dive teams, fisheries harvest divers, marine Investigators, etc. QUALIFICATIONS OF GRADUATES
ADMISSION REQUIREMENT
COURSE FEE
Note: Discounted Combined Courses Packages are available for students. For further information of Instructor Training and Crossover Courses, please browse [Instructor Training Courses]. EQUIPMENT
Students are required to
have their scuba diving equipment for the
course.
Surface-supplied Diving Equipment will be provided by SZSWC on
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HISTORY OF NACDS
There was, and still is,
another dilemma to deal with. Throughout the world there are hundreds of small companies
and public safety / service agencies that need their dive teams trained and qualified to
work underwater using surface-supplied diving equipment with voice communication. It is
simply not feasible for an entire team to attend a commercial diving program. It is not
affordable and some, or all of the divers, do not speak English well enough to learn at
one of these schools. In 1983, at The Ocean Corporation Commercial Diving School in Houston, TX, a team of Professional NAUI and Commercial Diving Instructors, under the direction of Tom Hemphill, created a short training program called "Commercial Scuba Diver". The primary objective at that was to provide specialty commercial diver training for experience / advanced Scuba divers and public service dive teams. The National Association of Commercial Scuba Divers (NACSD) was founded and qualification standards for NACSD Divers and Instructors were established. By the end of 1993, more than 400 Commercial Diving Specialists and 50 Commercial Diving Instructors had been trained and certified by NACSD.
VALUE OF SPECIALIST TRAINING
SHENZHEN SCUBA WORLD CENTRE (SZSWC) is an Approved Training Facility of NACDS. Mr. Kin-Kwong Li, Registered Marine Engineer and Founder of SZSWC Group, is the NACDS Far East Training Representative and is responsible for the promotion, development and coordination of NACDS training for Far East countries. NACDS INSTRUCTOR QUALIFICATIONS All of our NACDS Instructors are also certified Scuba Instructors of recognized agencies and are qualified to teach advanced diving technology and advanced specialty diving. We have three qualification levels for our NACDS Instructors, which are: Level 1
Level 3
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Shenzhen
Scuba World Centre (SZSWC
Course standards meet the requirement of OSHA and ACDE.
As an authorized Professional
Training Facility of NACDS. SZSWC provides all levels of commercial diver
training programs to enable you to become the best and the most
respective diver in commercial diving industry. SZSWC Group have
conducted the commercial diver and rescue training programs to more than
50 occupational divers since 1991. 
COURSE
OVERVIEW
Advanced diving technology
and techniques consisting of a comprehensive knowledge and experiences covering
the areas of : diving physics,
physiology, medical aspects, decompression, scuba rescue techniques, First Aid & CPR,
oxygen first aid, scuba/commercial diving equipment maintenance and repairs, underwater
working techniques, commercial diving standards and procedures.
Upon successful completion
of the course, graduates
fulfilled all the course requirements will be certified as NACDS
Commercial Diver
(or
NACDS Commercial Diving Supervisor, for those eligible and with working experiences), and are considered competent to engage in commercial air diving activities not exceeding 190 f.s.w. with Scuba,
Tethered Scuba and Surface-supplied Diving Systems with Voice Communication.
Graduates are also qualified to apply for admission into more technical training programs,
such as Underwater Welding
& Burning, Oxygen Enriched Air Diving, NDT Inspection Diving, Dive with
Rebreather and Hyperbaric Chamber
Operator etc.
Note:
Students
who are in
Leadership level
may request for exemption of some academic topics from the Course Director.
During the 1970, it became
apparent that the problems required to train commercial offshore oil field divers were
very technical and extensive, while sport diving training was going more towards the
short, less technical programs and vacation oriented divers. At the same time, there was a
growing need for divers to perform professional tasks in shallow water that required
training in advanced diving technology and surface-supplied diving with communication
, but not to the extent of the 6 months to two years courses being offered through
commercial diving schools and colleges.
In March of 1994, after
reviewing the students' backgrounds and requests from the association membership, the
Board of Directors elected proposed to change the name of the association to the National
Association of Commercial Diving Specialists (NACDS). The term "Scuba" was
deleted in order to more accurately represent the training programs because very few of
the members were actually using Scuba for working underwater and most of the training
programs being conducted focused on surface-supplied diving.
We are primarily working
with people that are already in the Marine / Hyperbaric related industry skills simply
allow them to perform underwater the same tasks that they are qualified to do topside. The
unique features of our NACDS programs include:
FAR EAST
TRAINING REPRESENTATIVE
Level 2