Scientific SCUBA Diver Skill Set
Dive into Science: Scientific Diving Skill Set
Embark on an underwater adventure with our Scientific Diving Skill Set! This course equips you with the essential skills to support research, monitoring, and inspection in significant marine environments.
Overview
Campus Batavia Coast Maritime Institute
When Semester 2, 2025
Study Mode On campus
Dive into Science: Scientific Diving Skill Set
This Skill Set covers the processes of scientific diving required to support research, monitoring and inspection roles associated with places or areas of significance.
It requires the ability to plan diving operations, prepare for and conduct dives, debrief the diving team, check and store equipment, review the diving program, and respond to diving maladies.
Performing diving for scientific purposes requires knowledge of the physics of diving, no-decompression tables, dive equipment and planning, emergency procedures, agencies' standing orders for notification, and radio operation procedures.
Successful completion of this skill set requires compliance with the current version of the Australian Standard for training and certification of occupational divers for restricted occupational self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA).
Must Hold:
- Open Water diver certification
- Advanced Open water diver certification
- Rescue Diver Certification
- HLTAID011 PFA
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Semester 2, 2025
Details
Units
| National ID | Unit title |
|---|---|
| AHCLPW307 | Perform restricted diving for scientific purposes |
| SFIDIV303 | Perform diving operations using SCUBA |
| SFIDIV305 | Undertake emergency procedures in SCUBA diving operations |
| SISOSCB001 | SCUBA dive in open water to a maximum depth of 18 metres |
| SISOSCB006 | Perform diver rescues |
| SISOSCB008 | SCUBA dive using Enriched Air Nitrox |
| SISOSCB009 | SCUBA dive to depths between 18 and 40 metres |