Diver training centre in Hampshire, UK
50°50′10″N 1°05′56″W / 50.836°N 1.099°W / 50.836; -1.099Elevation | 15 m (49 ft) |
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Current tenants | Royal Navy |
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Construction started | September 1994 |
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Completed | November 1995 |
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Inaugurated | 1996 |
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Owner | Royal Navy |
The Defence Diving School is a diver training centre in Hampshire, run by the Royal Navy.
History
Background
There were four Navy diving schools, with two in Devon. The two diving courses were eleven weeks, then nine weeks.[1] Around half of the commercial divers in the North Sea were former British military divers.
In the 1950s, much diving was done from HMS Reclaim. Lt George Wookey set the current world record for deep diving at 600 ft off Norway on 12 October 1956.
Construction
Construction began in September 1994. It would train around 2000 divers a year.[2]
It opened in September 1995, being previously at HMS Vernon as the Naval Diving School which joined with the RE Diving Establishment.
It was officially opened in early 1996, with the Sir Charles Pasley pool, by the Second Sea Lord.[3]
At first, training for the RE and the Navy was separate. Three years in the Navy was required to apply to be a diver, but this policy was dropped in the late 1990s.[4]
Female divers
It had its first female mine clearance diver on 19 November 2010, 28 year old Lieutenant Catherine Ker. The Royal Navy had changed its admissions policy for women, after the INM had found that women were at no more risk from decompression sickness (the bends) than men.[5]
Incidents
- 27 year old Lt Paul McAulay, from Clackmannanshire, died on Thursday 28 November 2002, after he choked on his own vomit after diving less than two hours after eating, which is not Royal Navy practice. His family were awarded £750,000 in June 2005.[6]
- 28 year old Lt David Christie died on 14 March 2002 [7]
Function
It trains frogmen (almost all are male, due to the demanding physical proficiency required) for the Royal Navy, and a few for the RE.
Structure
It is situated close to the M27.
See also
References
- ^ Times Friday 21 August 1959, page 11
- ^ Navy News September 1994, page 7
- ^ Navy News March 1996, page 9
- ^ Navy News March 1999, page 20
- ^ Decompression sickness policy
- ^ Navy News January 2003, page 15
- ^ Navy News April 2002, page 49
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Defence Diving School.
Underwater diving
- Diving activities
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Underwater work | Salvage diving | - SS Egypt
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Diving disorders | Pressure related | Oxygen | |
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Military and covert operations | - Raid on Alexandria (1941)
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Early diving | |
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Offshore diving incidents | - Byford Dolphin diving bell accident
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Manuals | - NOAA Diving Manual
- U.S. Navy Diving Manual
- Basic Cave Diving: A Blueprint for Survival
- Underwater Handbook
- Bennett and Elliott's physiology and medicine of diving
- Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving
- The new science of skin and scuba diving
- Professional Diver's Handbook
- Basic Scuba
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Diving physics | |
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Deep-submergence vehicle | - Aluminaut
- DSV Alvin
- American submarine NR-1
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- Harmony class bathyscaphe
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