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HARD HAT & DECOMPRESSION CHAMBER COURSE
WORLD FAMOUS HARD HAT & DECOMPRESSION CHAMBER COURSE
A subsidiary of Commercial Diving and Marine Services is The Diver training College. Running side by side since 1971 the College has provided courses for the recreational scuba diver. Primarily BSAC (British Sub Aqua Club) the college is now a PADI five star diving centre offering courses from beginner up to instructor.
The Diver Training College is very much an all year facility offering a very unique and special course this course has also been running since 1971 and is called The Hard Hat & Decompression Chamber Course.
The course gives the opportunity to experience a by gone era of diving history, participants get the chance to use antique diving apparatus like the Siebe Gorman brass helmet which goes back some 120 years.
Military diving apparatus is also available like the US MK V and the Aga Divator full-face mask used by both the police and military.
Commercial helmets like Aquadine and Kirby Morgan systems are also presented for all candidates wanting to experience what it is like to be a modern day surface supplied commercial diver.
Course participants are in full contact with the surface during their diving experience through a comms system built in to the helmets. Tasks are available to complete whilst underwater like air lifting a very large tractor tyre using a lift bag. Photography is always permitted so don't forget your cameras.
The decompression chamber section of the course is where participants are given the chance to dive to 50m in a controlled environment within our dive chamber. This experience is invaluable should you ever need to be treated in a chamber for decompression sickness. This chamber dive also gives you valuable information about you personally, it shows you how the changes in depth alter your perspective and how divers get themselves into trouble by diving too deep for too long with not enough forward thinking preparation it really opens your eyes to that saying "plan the dive and dive the plan".
You can take your computers into the chamber and you can log this, as a dive in your logbook so don't forget them.
THE COURSE BEGINS
Participants arrive at the College for 9.00am where they are split up into two teams. Each team is given the necessary health and safety forms to complete before the course begins.
Team A is taken to the decompression chamber, to start with a short lecture and chamber familiarity seminar before commencing with the safe and controlled decent to 50m.
Team B go to the dive tank for their lecture and apparatus familiarity seminar. Dive Team members are encouraged to participate in both the dive and most importantly getting team members into the appropriate equipment ready to dive. The lecturers will demonstrate full instruction of diver preparation by dressing the first diver for the team.
The participation in this diver preparation process helps the candidates to further understand and learn about the equipment they are using.
LUNCH IS SERVED
Lunch is served in our themed bar which is also the club house for The Diver Training College.
We do cater for vegetarians and require pre-notification during the course booking period as to how many candidates require a vegetarian meal.
A fully licensed bar is available should you require a baverage with your meal.
THE EXPERIENCE CONTINUES
After lunch Team A make their way to the decompression chamber, to listen with their chamber familiarity talk before commencing with the safe and controlled decent to 50m.
Team B go to the dive tank for their apparatus familiarity talk. Dive Team members are again encouraged to participate in both the dive and most importantly getting team members into the appropriate equipment ready to dive.
The lecturers will demonstrate full instruction of diver preparation again by dressing the first diver for that team.
The participation in this diver preparation process helps the candidates to further understand and learn about the equipment they are using. The day ends with a debriefing and a talk about the other helmets available, to use and experience on future courses you participate in.
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
STEVE FILA THE DIVER TRAINING COLLEGE 01904 744424