At the time
of going to Press there were 65 students under training at NYD - (46 on
IDSA and 9 for the Norwegian rescue
boats). Students are from several Countries and classroom teaching is held in
four groups, two in Norwegian, one in
English and one in Russian. So it is challenging to organise the instructors. The
practical work is carried out from six diving stations and with average
temperatures minus 10-20C
that can also be a logistic and technical challenge.
The underwater welding capacity is also
being expanded and in 2010 three
complete packaged welding sets were bought from Speciality Welds (UK) and it is
planned to buy 2 more.
The Scuba training facilities are being
uppgraded by building a brand new scuba station
using six complete new Interspiro scuba sets with twin composite tubes and
two Interspiro DP sets (high preassure umbilical). A second hand small 1.300 mm twin lock chamber
has also been purchased and when upgraded and certified it will be used to back up the Scuba
training. Three new A-frames are being
built and mounted to take diving baskets, and when finished there will be seven diving
baskets in
operation on the pier. Our new office is now finished and also our new conference room for
eight to ten people.
Finally it is of considerable interest that
the Norwegian entrepreneurs (NBU) are writing a new inshore diving standard.
Dag Wroldsen is a member and one of the senior members of his staff is the
Secretary which means that the interests of IDSA will be well represented.
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