Become a commercial diver in the Netherlands
Train from first dive to professional registration at one of the most complete professional dive-training campuses in the world — on the waterfront in Enkhuizen, one hour from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport.
26+
training programmes
700+
graduates per year
92%
pass rate
1 hr
from Amsterdam Schiphol
World-class facilities, all on one campus
You learn this trade by doing it — with real depth, real equipment and real supervision. Everything below is on our own site at the Markermeer, not rented by the hour somewhere else.
21-metre dive basin, adjustable to the centimetre
Our outdoor basin has a movable floor that sets steplessly — centimetre-accurate — to any depth between the surface and 21 metres. Train the same exercise at increasing depth on the same day.
Indoor dive towers
Conditioned indoor towers for skill training in controlled visibility and temperature, before you move to open water.
Decompression chamber on site
A decompression chamber on campus, embedded in the safety organisation that supports every training dive here.
LARS and surface-supplied spreads
Launch-and-recovery systems, dive control and communications: you train inside the working environment you will meet offshore and inshore.
XVR scenario dome
Virtual-reality scenario training for realistic incident and team exercises — unique for dive training.
Own training vessel
Open-water training from our own vessel on the Markermeer, steps away from the classrooms.
The whole diving industry, one location
Civil and government diving knowledge under one roof — so you train alongside every discipline you will meet in your career, and you can keep specialising here after you qualify.
Civil professional diving (A9 – B50)
The full Dutch scope structure: SCUBA to surface-supplied heavy work to 50 metres.
Government & fire-brigade diving
Rescue and public-safety diving programmes, recognised for the Dutch fire service.
Diver Medic Technician
The only IMCA-approved Diver Medic Technician provider in the Netherlands and the Benelux — initial and refresher courses.
Underwater welding
Qualify as a welder-diver at our Hyperbaric Welding Center, a joint venture with the Dutch Welding Institute (DNV personnel certification).
Recertification
Keep your registration current — recertification for every scope, year-round.
Testing & facility rental
Companies test equipment and rent our facilities — you train in a working industry hub, not a classroom island.
A qualification you can take abroad
The Dutch professional diving scheme (NDC-RI registration, independent Hobéon examination) is internationally oriented: it appears on IMCA’s list of recognised national schemes (IMCA D 01/18), Dutch B50 qualifications are named on the UK HSE list of approved diving qualifications, and ADAS (Australia) operates a crossover for Dutch certificates. Tell us where you want to work and we will explain exactly what your target market requires — including what it does not automatically cover.
Our accreditations →Your route, step by step
- 1Choose your scope: from A9 (SCUBA to 9 m) up to B50 (surface-supplied heavy work to 50 m) — we advise you based on your career goal.
- 2Pass an occupational diving medical (we can point you to approved diving physicians).
- 3Enrol via our registration page or an information day.
- 4Study the theory online, wherever you are in the world.
- 5Train the practical weeks on our campus in Enkhuizen.
- 6Pass the independent national exam and receive your NDC-RI registration.
Coming from abroad?
Students from across the world train in Enkhuizen. Course materials and instruction are available in English for international participants — contact us to confirm the language set-up for your specific programme and start date. Enkhuizen is a compact harbour town with accommodation in every price range; EU/EEA citizens travel freely, and many other nationalities can visit the Schengen area visa-free or with a short-stay visa. We gladly help with an enrolment confirmation for your application.
Start your diving career where the whole industry trains
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