Frequently Asked Questions

Any IDSA approved commercial, surface supplied trained diver, with or without welding experience.
If interested in becoming a professional diver check out these websites:

• www.idsaworldwide.org
• www.nyd.org
• www.theunderwatercentre.com

Our certificate is recognised worldwide.

On successful completion of the course we provide you with an EAL-certificate valid for life. EAL covers the theoretical background demanded by EWF/IIW. The wet weld certificate is valid for two years. To keep your wet weld certificate up to date you have to do a witnessed assessment within 18 months.
At this moment you can even apply for an upgrade (pipe on plate, overhead).

The first three days we provide you with the necessary theoretical background.
All Lessons start at 7.30hr and finish at 17.30hr.

The next two days consist of dry welding introduction or training according NIL 1 + (“Vertical up – PF”).

The next five days consist of wet welding practice starting at 7.30hr and stop at last at 19.30hr.

The final day is an examination day, witnessed by NIL/EWF/IIW.

Personal safety equipment will be provided by DiveWise.
This will include

1. dry weld welding shield
2. coverall
3. safety glasses
4. working gloves
5. ear protectionone acceptation is safety shoes.

Yes, we’ve got 2 shower cabins.

Yes, but you can find the best hotels in an acceptable Price range on our site.

Coffee and Tea are free, soft drinks are available for a small fee.

EAL (EMTA Awards) who are port of SEMIA /sector Skills Council for Science, Engineering and Manufacturing Technologies) issue the knowledge competence certificate as per IIW.

International Institute of Welding (the authority for which the course materials is written; we use their training guideline as referenced in document 570-01- for fillet welder-plate). European Welding Federation (now part of IIW)

Exercises are broken down into stages, i.e. stage 1 exercise 1. Dry – covers: BOP (bead on plate), stringer, weave and penetration welding techniques in the flat position and then moves onto tee joints (fillet welds). Other positions are available, but depend on ability off each independent student.

Learning Outcome (this is what the student is taught/ learns and is assessed on)

All LOC’s are assessed through written, oral and/ or practical work the student undertakes and the instructor is required to collate all the students work and complete all necessary audit sheets.

This covers dry welding and is essentially practical skill training, although there is a basic set of notes to ease non-welders into the subject. The phase 1 part after completion should able the student to make the ‘NIL level 1’ exam approved by the EWF. Which covers penetration welding in welding-position PA and fillet welds in PA and PB. Other, more difficult positions are at the discretion of the instructor.

There are a total of 9 LOC’s, of which the 9th are the practical wet and dry exercises, so there are eight theoretical LOC’s, which are covered by lessons and require written homework.

This is logged online via the dedicated website for all materials, although extra photographic evidence needs to be saved for future audits.

These are broken down into bead on plate (BOP) in the flat position (PA) only and lap and T fillet weld joints, in the H-V (PB) and the V-D (PG) welding positions. The student will practice drag and oscillation techniques and the step-back technique. The step-back technique in the PG position is used to get sufficient root-penetration to pass the exam. (See macroscopic test).

The student will undertake the following assessments:

• ·  Phase 1 self-test Paper
• ·  LOC 1-8 written homework (includes pWPS and example copy of U/W wet welding record sheet)

• ·  Dry welding exercises
• ·  LOC 9 wet welding exercises / dry welding exercises
• ·  End of course closed book exam (EAL)
• ·  Welder quantification test weld (wet ‘BSEN ISO 15618-1:2002 (class I)‘ and dry ‘NIL 1 according to EN ISO 5817:2007’)

Following the completion of a class and after the school has returned all the necessary evidence/ audit forms and weldments for examination; an end of course audit is produced. This identifies at this initial stage, any non-conformities that may have been identified. Within this end of course audit/ report a randomly selected student will then be identified for a full student audit. This will require the full student file to be returned (paper or electronic), which wilt include all the students homework, instructor marks/ comments, audit forms and photographs to be submitted for audit.

The intention of the course is to test to class l standards. However, as a fall-back position should the weld not meet class I standards, at the discretion of the examiner, the weld may be considered for examination to class II standards (BS4872-1).

• Fail (0-49%) and requires additional study before a re-sit
• Bare fail (50-59%)supplementary oral and/ or written work required (may use

  homework)

• Pass (60-72%)
• Credit (73-86%)
• Distinction (87-100%)