Thursday, December 30, 2010

Professional Diving Courses

By Owen Jones


Professional deep sea diving or commercial diving is a profession that is not for all people. In this profession, you must be in first-class physical condition and you also need to have a sharp mind. Being a commercial diver is not just about knowing how to weld pipes undersea and being able to handle explosives, there are a lot of specialty studies that you can focus on in commercial diving.

These days, there are specialist schools for professional diving. There, you will get the opportunity to become a qualified commercial diver as well as take specialty courses that appeal to you the most.

Basically, most commercial divers take welding courses. If you follow the specialist underwater welding course, you will be taught the skills necessary to make high quality fillet welds. You will also be introduced to theories regarding the welding process and safe working practice while welding underwater.

In this course, each matter will be covered with lectures and actual test situations where you will be taken undersea for a simulated welding situation.Normally, you will learn nine special subjects on this course.

The first will cover safe undersea welding procedures; the second, welding plant and equipment; the third, techniques; the fourth, the preparation of the weld; the fifth, welding terminology and electrodes; the sixth, basic weldability and common weld defects; the seventh, how to monitor and control welding operations; the eighth, quality assurance and control and the ninth is joining steel plates using the three regular welding techniques.

Taking an underwater welding course can provide you with a great deal of employment opportunities in a commercial diving career. By becoming a certified undersea welder, you will be in demand by the shipping, construction and oil and gas industries.

Air mixed gas commercial diving is also a specialist course in the commercial diving industry. On this one, you will be taught about the different gas mixes that divers breathe. Regular air, nitrox, trimix, whatever, you will be taught how to mix them all.

A pressure tolerance test is also included in this particular course. You will also learn about the effects of certain gases on the body when diving. For example, you will be taught about nitrogen and its hallucinogenic effects on the brain when inhaled under pressure, and you will also be taught about oxygen toxicity and why helium is a preferred gas for breathing when diving in very deep seas.

You will also be taught about decompression and dive medicines as well as hyperbaric medication. Safety planning is another crucial part of the course as well as the commercial uses of scuba.

Underwater construction is also covered under this course as well as inland diving and equipment maintenance, especially that of the gas systems.

The diver medic specialist is another specialized course in commercial diving. After passing it, you will become a dive medical technician who will be responsible for making safer and better prepared dives.

You will be taught about the effects of protracted diving on the body and also about the various ailments that divers can experience, such as decompression sickness and extreme fatigue. You will also be taught how to care for divers who have experienced accidents during dives as well as hyperbaric medicine and treatment.

The above are just some of the specialty courses that you can take in commercial diving.

As you can see, there are a lot of career opportunities in the sphere of deep sea diving. By choosing the specialty course you want to learn about, you can be in no doubt that you will have an enjoyable and much brighter future in the world of professional diving.




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