Our Commercial Diving and advanced skill-based courses offer a challenging, adventurous, and rewarding career path.

The International Diving Institute offers a 16 week, 640 hour comprehensive program which covers the training you need to work as a commercial diver and underwater welder. At IDI we focus on the quality and safety of the training we give our students. We keep our class sizes small to allow for more direct interaction between students and instructors.

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This course is for verified commercial divers. To learn how to weld underwater, see our Air/Mixed Gas Surface Supplied Diver program which includes underwater welding training. 

The International Diving Institute offers a 2 week, 80 hour course which covers the training you need to test for a Lloyd’s Register Underwater Welder certification. The course culminates with a practical test proctored by a Lloyd’s Register Surveyor through American Welding Society (AWS). Welding certifications are typically required when performing emergency welds on ships, as well as certain load-bearing or critical structures. Lloyd’s Register provides an internationally-recognized certification.

Course Fees: $4,900

This 40-hour course covering HAZMAT and HAZWOPER procedures includes land-based principles, as well as information specific to underwater environments for commercial divers. It closely follows the OSHA guidelines for Hazardous Materials and Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response.

Course Fees: $1,500

Our ROV course was written  to follow and exceed the IMCA ROV training recommendations R002 “New Personnel Entering The ROV Industry” as well as R0010 ” ROV Course Outline Syllabus”

As as part of ROV training, we run 160 hours of training with no simulators, all piloting is held in our dedicated ROV classroom as well as at a local private quarry and is hands on flying. Students are given an IMCA ROV pilots logbook at the start of the course and log their piloting time, depending on student numbers the average piloting time is around 10 hours at the end of the course.

Included in the course is 30 hours of practical hydraulics training as well as practical fiber optic training and umbilical testing, repairs, in conjunction students also use electrical test equipment such as multi-meters, insulation test meters, oscilloscopes as well as learning soldering techniques and use of hand tools. Practical piloting exercises include diver support, pipeline survey, wreck survey as well as a practical evidence location, recovery and preservation.

Training is a continual assessment of competency by practical demonstration as well as weekly knowledge exams as well as a final exam after 4 weeks, students also carry out a hydraulics exam after
completing the hydraulics training modules.

Learn more about the market demand for ROV personnel.

Course Fees: $8,500

The course objective is to train divers in underwater Burning/Cutting. The course does not require prior experience in underwater burning, but does require the diver to be a qualified diver/tender before start of class. The instructor systematically guides the diver through the course by beginning with the basic modular through successful completion of the entire one week program.

With no previous underwater burning experience it is a necessity to have an understanding of topside cutting, both theoretical and practical, it would be a significant advantage to any student wishing to enroll.

CERTIFICATIONS AT COMPLETION:
Certificate from International Diving Institute and AWS/ANSI

PROGRAM COST:
The cost for the complete course is $2500.00, this includes: Access to IDI facility, consumables, and testing. The school will also provide the surface supplied diving and burning equipment.