BB840: Scientific Diver Course (10 ECTS)

STADS: 04014501

Level
Master's level course

Teaching period
The course is offered in the spring semester.

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Comment:
Max 8 deltagere. Teori og praktisk hele uge 13,14,15 og 16. Eksamen mandag og tirsdag i uge 17.

Undervisningen foregår i Odense og Fredericia. På nær uge 15, som er i Hemmoor i Tyskland.

Prerequisites:
None

Academic preconditions:
Necessary health prerequisites: Diving medical examination, fitness test (1000 m surface swim without fins in under 30 minutes, 2.5 km run in under 15 minutes, 25 m underwater swim without fins (fully submerged) 1 minute breath holding in swimming pool at 2 m depth).

Course introduction
The marine biological diving course is a research support course with the aim of training students to the level of Danish commercial SCUBA diver in accordance with the ”Danske regler for dykning”, issued by the Danish Maritime Authority (Søfartsstyrelsen). On the course the student will be introduced to marine monitoring of benthic ecosystems and to experimental design of underwater research. The student will be trained in using scuba diving as a research tool to study the underwater environment through visual observations, sample collection, and installation of underwater measuring equipment.

Qualifications
Successful course participants are issued with the Danish Commercial SCUBA Diving license (see table of equivalence). This license allows divers to carry out light commercial work using SCUBA equipment in depths of up to 30m. It is issued by the Danish Maritime Authority, which also oversees the exams. The candidates will master required skills for professional SCUBA diving as well as planning and accomplishment of scientific underwater research campaigns.

Expected learning outcome
At the end of the course the student is expected to be able to:

• Plan and perform basic marine biological underwater field sampling and surveys
• Explain diving physiology, including basic principles on human physiology, diving medicine
• Explain diving physics, including decompression
• Assemble and inspect diving gear
• Scuba dive to 30 m, including dive planning and underwater navigation
• Cold water diving including dry suit diving cold water precautions
• Explain, demonstrate and carry out diving first aid and rescue operations
• Undertake practical seamanship and basic navigation

Subject overview

• Theory of diving (decompression physiology, diving medicine, diving physics, diving safety, legislation)
• Diving equipment
• Diving emergency first aid
• Dive rescue
• Pool and open water dives
• Underwater communication
• Seamanship training
• Methods and techniques of underwater research and monitoring (design of sampling, sampling of flora, fauna, sediments; deployment of electronic equipment, quantification of flora and fauna, habitat survey, transects)

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Website
This course uses e-learn (blackboard).

Prerequisites for participating in the exam
Attendance of theoretical part (min. 80%) and of diving course (practical exercises 100%) and approval of report based on individual project in underwater research methodology. Pass/fail, internal evaluation by the teacher.

Assessment and marking:

1. Written exam (3 hours). Danish 7-mark scale, internal evaluation (5 ECTS). (04014502)
2. Combined practical and oral exam. Danish 7-mark scale, external evaluation (5 ECTS). (04014512)

Reexamination for both during May.

Expected working hours
The teaching method is based on three phase model.
Intro phase: 10 hours
Skills training phase: 75 hours, hereof:
 - Tutorials: 10 hours
 - Excursion: 65 hours

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Language
This course is taught in Danish or English, depending on the lecturer. However, if international students participate, the teaching language will always be English.

Course enrollment
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