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HSE SCUBA Instructor Joe Bamblett
Joe Bamblett, HSE SCUBA Instructor and Supervisor at The Underwater Centre in Fort William, tells us about how taking his sport diving career to another level: ‘After doing some building work with my...
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Funding boost for a career in commercial diving
The Underwater Centre, Fort William, has been awarded funding to train candidates for the commercial diving industry within Scotland. The funding is part of the Energy Skills Challenge Fund and has...
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Commercial diving in Tasmanian Aquaculture Industry
Mark Cate, a 39-year-old carpenter and joiner from New Norfolk, has taken the plunge into commercial diving and hasn’t looked back. Mark is a part of a growing wave of Tasmanians looking to broaden...
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Introduction to Commercial Diving Careers – Funding Assessment Day
We recently posted on our blog about funding The Underwater Centre has received to train students for a career in commercial diving. As part of the process to be able to apply for the funding and...
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Commercial Diver: Alistair Brady
Alistair Brady was brought up in London, and on leaving school wandered between jobs like retail and customer service, but didn’t last as ‘I got bored and wanted to do something more motivational and...
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Update from ROV Pilot Tech Chris Steventon
You may remember this earlier blog post about ROV pilot technician graduate Chris Steventon, who chose to enter the ROV industry as a second (or third!) career. Chris recently updated us with how he’s...
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New ADAS Commercial Diver Training Packages
Some of you may have already noticed that our Package courses at The Underwater Centre, Tasmania, have been updated with new elements to help you get started in your career as a commercial diver....
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Funded Training on Commercial Diving Course Package
Last year, we were awarded funding for students with a Scottish postcode to put towards the cost of our Premium Industry or Construction Career Packages. Here you can read about one of those students,...
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Introduction to Commercial Diving Careers – Funding Assessment Day
We recently posted on our blog about funding The Underwater Centre has received to train students for a career in commercial diving. As part of the process to be able to apply for the funding and...
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Commercial Diver: Alistair Brady
Alistair Brady was brought up in London, and on leaving school wandered between jobs like retail and customer service, but didn’t last as ‘I got bored and wanted to do something more motivational and...
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Update from ROV Pilot Tech Chris Steventon
You may remember this earlier blog post about ROV pilot technician graduate Chris Steventon, who chose to enter the ROV industry as a second (or third!) career. Chris recently updated us with how he’s...
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New ADAS Commercial Diver Training Packages
Some of you may have already noticed that our Package courses at The Underwater Centre, Tasmania, have been updated with new elements to help you get started in your career as a commercial diver....
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Funded Training on Commercial Diving Course Package
Last year, we were awarded funding for students with a Scottish postcode to put towards the cost of our Premium Industry or Construction Career Packages. Here you can read about one of those students,...
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How to Succeed in the Diving Industry
You may already know of James Ridgeway BSc MSc, our Operations and Training Manager on a professional or on an educational basis. James now runs our Career Advice Session which is proving to be a great...
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ROV Pilot Tech Course: Week 3
A few weeks ago, we posted a summary of week 2 of our ROV Pilot Technician course from Jens Harris, who completed the course in March. Following on from that, here is Jens’ summary of week 3 of the...
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Scotland’s first graduate training programme for divers launched
We are delighted to announce that Scotland’s first graduate training programme for divers has been launched in conjunction with our centre in Fort William and Stork Technical Services (Stork), the...
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Further Retraining Thanks to Caithness Chamber Initiative
A funding initiative aimed at encouraging individuals affected by the decommissioning of the Dounreay nuclear facility in Caithness to retrain continues to yield positive results. The scheme is being...
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Are you on LinkedIn?
LinkedIn Is effectively the professional version of Facebook; it’s a site which offers you the opportunity to connect with people on a professional basis and provides great networking opportunities....
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Dive into a World of Possibilities
Here is an article which appeared in the Press & Journal last year – an interview with one of our former students. Greer’s story is very motivational and illustrates how she got to where she is...
View ArticleA day in the life of Herb… (Our Operations Manager)
Air diving students in Tasmania have cleverly put this time lapse video together of our Operations Manager and Commercial Diving Instructor/ Supervisor Herb Mitton. He combines over 20 years of...
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