ONGOING PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE TRAINING
Rescuing a victim under ice
Practical exercises: situation-specific
CODE
BRW-BWD.08 / BRW-DPL.08
Only when it freezes, but then you want to be ready. You practise the complete ice diving operation: assessing the ice, making an ice hole and rescuing a victim under ice.
What will you learn?
- Use the access map
- Draw up a work plan/task risk analysis (TRA)
- Brief the dive team
- Assess the safety of the ice sheet
- Make an ice hole
- Apply the tactics of an ice diving operation
- Evaluation
- Aftercare
Can be extended with (optional)
- Surface rescue from the ice (IKB 217, OD28)
- Search pattern under ice using the semicircle method (IKB 205)
- Hypothermia protocol for diver and surface team
About the training
This training practises an ice diving operation: assessing the load-bearing capacity of the ice sheet, making an ice hole, applying the tactics of a line-secured operation under ice and locating and rescuing a victim under ice. The exercise is weather-dependent and does not count towards the portfolio check, but is recommended when conditions allow.
- 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 1, dive team leader 1
- Location
- Open-water dive pit — BC-opleidingen, Enkhuizen (with sufficient ice formation)
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.