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Your
journey as a professional diver has just begun!
When you enter today's tough,
but very exciting and rewarding field of commercial diving,
you will have the opportunity to find yourself a career that
offers you personal satisfaction, advancement and diversity of
assignments.*
 Today's diving industry calls
for life-long training. Many people change careers two or three
times in a lifetime. Commercial diving can provide a career
with endless growth potential while engaging in a vast array
of opportunities. In just a few months you can be on your way
to this highly respected career. Whether you plan to do
underwater burning or underwater welding, IDI can offer you
the appropriate courses through IDI's top quality commercial
diving school. This is accomplished through IDI's open water
and hands-on commercial divers training which covers all
levels of learning.
Real-world projects, pressures
and deadlines are used to help acquire the high demand skills
for commercial diving. IDI's
curriculum provides both
entry level and advanced
diver training. IDI's facility is designed as a
safe, yet realistic, open water work-site environment located
on the old navy base in Charleston, South Carolina. IDI has
on-site access to an ex-Navy YD (yards and docks) crane barge, for
training purposes. IDI's students not only gain technical
skills, but also develop the professional qualities that are
attractive to employers of commercial divers. IDI houses
Sea Research Society's library at its main campus. That
library includes hundreds of books, magazines, maps and
charts. It also includes thousands of prints, photographs
and slides relating to sport and commercial divers and a wide
range of dive related work. Students can read about and
research everything from sunken treasure to the evolution
of diving gear.
Students can take courses
relating to SCUBA instruction (from basic open-water
diver to instructor level) and air/mixed gas surface
supplied diving (commercial applications).
IDI has two 54" hyperbaric
chambers (for recompression and decompression), one of which
is fitted out for saturation diving (i.e. a dive bell can
be attached to it). The other, built in the United Kingdom
(UK), was certified by Lloyd's in 2004. IDI has a wide variety
of equipment by manufacturers and designers such as Desco,
Gorsky, Klein, Miller Dunn, and Kirby Morgan. Our main campus
and dive site is located on the Cooper River less than one
block from the H.L. Hunley submarine conservation lab and only
minutes from the heart of historic Charleston's tourist
center.
Divers can purchase commercial
dive equipment through IDI's retail dive facility, located at
their corporate headquarters in Charleston, South
Carolina. Recreational (scuba) diving equipment may also be
purchased or rented there as well. Why train in weather that
is either too cold or too hot? Be like the millions of
tourists who visit Charleston every year, come and enjoy South
Carolina's coastal climate, sand beaches and fine dining.
* IDI prefers and uses the
terms commercial diving, commercial divers and professional
divers. However, professional divers are frequently known
to the general public as deepsea (deep-sea) divers,
helmet divers and hardhat divers. |
International Diving Institute (IDI) is a member of association
of Diving Contractors International (ADC) and trains to
the Standards published by the Association of Commercial
Diving Educators (ACDE), the American National Standards
Institute (ANSI), the National Association of SCUBA
Educators (NASE), and the Sea Research Society (SRS). The
Institute's mission is to provide and prepare our
graduates for a career in the commercial diving industry
as entry-level divers/tenders who excel in knowledge,
skills and safety. In order to receive an ADCI
certification card one must have adequate training and
possess a valid certificate. The following curriculum
meets the ACDE/ANSI Standards and the student will receive
an ADCI certification card upon graduation. The benefit of
obtaining an ADCI certification card is that it is
recognized and accepted internationally.
