ONGOING PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE TRAINING
Emergency procedure in open water
Practical exercises: basic requirements
CODE
BRW-BWD.04 / BRW-DPL.04
When it goes wrong, it has to go right the first time. You practise the complete emergency procedure in our open water: from distress signal to the first diving-medical check on the shore.
What will you learn?
- Use the access map
- Draw up a work plan/task risk analysis (TRA)
- Brief the dive team
- Respond to a distress signal
- Coordinate the rescue of a diver in distress
- Enter the water quickly
- Descend along the diver’s signal line
- Inspect the diver in distress and free them if necessary
- Provide the diver in distress with an additional air supply if necessary
- Use the quick-release hook
- Bring the diver in distress to the surface
- Bring the diver in distress to the shore
- Carry out the first diving-medical check
- Evaluation
- Aftercare
Can be extended with (optional)
- 2nd-stage malfunction in open water (IKB 208)
- Switch to bailout (206) or, with OLV, bailout OLV (306)
- Surface rescue (IKB 217, OD28)
- Combination with another exercise, as the industry guideline advises
About the training
This training practises the full emergency procedure in open water: responding to a distress signal, the coordinated deployment of the standby diver, and safely bringing a diver in distress to the surface and to the shore, followed by the first diving-medical check. Practice takes place in changing and unexpected conditions.
- 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 4, dive team leader 4
- Location
- Open-water dive pit — BC-opleidingen, Enkhuizen / Markermeer open water — BC-opleidingen, Enkhuizen
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.