{"id":357,"date":"2011-08-17T21:28:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T21:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ndac.co.uk\/blog\/?p=357"},"modified":"2018-01-18T09:31:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T09:31:31","slug":"royal-engineer-divers-get-to-grips-with-life-underwater-at-ndac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/royal-engineer-divers-get-to-grips-with-life-underwater-at-ndac\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Engineer Divers get to grips with life underwater at NDAC"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Diving & Activity Centre has featured in the latest Edition of Soldier Magazine.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Soldier Magazine visited Royal Engineers that were undertaking their advanced diver training at our Chepstow Scuba Centre. The result was a three page article detailing the training and work the Royal Engineer Divers carry out.<\/p>\n

The depth of the NDAC and the numerous onsite resources make our dive centre the perfect location to undertake this kind of training.<\/p>\n

Prior to starting the challenging advanced diver training programme at the NDAC, the Sappers passed a selection phase and then completed a basic diving course.<\/p>\n

The six-week diver training schedule teaches personnel to master the open space diving system as well as how to operate tools such as hydraulic cutters, breaking equipment and thermal cutting systems. <\/p>\n

The Sappers also developed a range of new skills including underwater concreting and advanced reconnaissance, which can be used to locate submerged vehicles in theatre. <\/p>\n

\""\"In theatre, the diving teams have been doing a variety ofwork. This includes body recoveries, the salvage of weapons from the bottom of wells or canals and underwater demolition tasks" explains Capt Steve Crosby-Jones (RE), the diving officer who coordinates serials for the basic and advanced courses. "They are a team and asset that are crucial to operations, especially when guys lose equipment such as rifles and radios. – There is no other capability that can recover that kit."<\/p>\n

Soldier magazine is the magazine of the British Army, published for the UK Armed Forces by the Ministry of Defence.<\/p>\n

Afraid we can’t teach you underwater demolition courses, but for your own Advanced Open Water Diver<\/a> training why not visit the NDAC Dive School<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The National Diving & Activity Centre has featured in the latest Edition of Soldier Magazine.<\/p>\n

Soldier Magazine visited Royal Engineers that were undertaking their advanced diver training at our Chepstow Scuba Centre. The result was a three page article detailing the training and work the Royal Engineer Divers carry out.<\/p>\n

The depth of the NDAC and the numerous onsite resources make our dive centre the perfect location to undertake this kind of training.<\/p>\n

Prior to starting the challenging advanced diver training programme at the NDAC, the Sappers passed a selection phase and then completed a basic diving course.<\/p>\n

The six-week diver training schedule teaches personnel to master the open space diving system as well as how to operate tools such as hydraulic cutters, breaking equipment and thermal cutting systems. <\/p>\n

The Sappers also developed a range of new skills including underwater concreting and advanced reconnaissance, which can be used to locate submerged vehicles in theatre. <\/p>\n

In theatre, the diving teams have been doing a variety ofwork. This includes body recoveries, the salvage of weapons from the bottom of wells or canals and underwater demolition tasks” explains Capt Steve Crosby-Jones (RE), the diving officer who coordinates serials for the basic and advanced courses. “They are a team and asset that are crucial to operations, especially when guys lose equipment such as rifles and radios. – There is no other capability that can recover that kit.”<\/p>\n

Soldier magazine is the magazine of the British Army, published for the UK Armed Forces by the Ministry of Defence.<\/p>\n

Afraid we can’t teach you underwater demolition courses, but for your own Advanced Open Water Diver training why not visit the NDAC Dive School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}