ONGOING PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE TRAINING
Diving in or near shipping lanes
Practical exercises: region-specific
CODE
BRW-BWD.16 / BRW-DPL.16
Diving where ships sail calls for agreements before you enter the water. You practise warning and stopping shipping traffic and cooperating with Rijkswaterstaat (RWS, the Dutch waterway authority) and the harbour service.
What will you learn?
- Use the access map
- Draw up a work plan/task risk analysis (TRA)
- Brief the dive team
- Warn or stop shipping traffic
- Cooperate with the services and vessels involved (harbour service, RWS, fire brigade vessel)
- Enter the water safely from or near a vessel
- Apply adapted search methods
Can be extended with (optional)
- Marking and lighting of the dive location on the water
- Cooperation with a fire brigade vessel as a dive platform
About the training
This training practises diving in or near shipping lanes. The emphasis is on warning and, where necessary, stopping shipping traffic, cooperating with the services and vessels involved, and entering the water safely during active shipping.
- Duration
- 1 practice day (guideline: 2 half-day sessions). The final number of dives and the time schedule follow from the work plan and the dive planning.
- Target group
- Registered fire brigade divers and dive team leaders who need to keep this exercise up to standard within their two-year registration period. Suitable for SCUBA and OLV configurations; regions that dive with OLV as standard mainly practise with OLV.
- Required per 2 years
- fire brigade diver 2, dive team leader 2
- Location
- Markermeer open water — BC-opleidingen, Enkhuizen (near shipping route)
What does the law require?
Fire brigade divers and dive team leaders have been registered with the NIPV since 1 October 2024. To keep your registration, you show every two years, with your logbook, that you have practised enough. The industry guideline on ongoing professional competence (2026) determines which exercises these are. At BC-opleidingen every course follows that guideline, and you receive the right code for your logbook.
Sign up / tailor-made quote
Sign up your team or request a tailor-made quote via info@bc-opleidingen.nl or +31 (0) 228 72 24 20. All courses take place at our own location in Enkhuizen.