Description Workshop recovering nets

Introduction

This specialty course is designed to familiarize the diver with the specific skills and techniques required for successful planning and execution.

Perform the safe removal of ghost fishing gear.

Price for participation

200,00€

Equipment Configuration

1. Basic open water diving equipment
2. DSMB with reel/spool
3. Personal cutting tool x 2
4. Flashlight x 2
5. Lifting bag
6. Redundant air supply (7L or more) equipped with 1st and 2nd stage regulators, SPG and low pressure inflator

Ghost Net Campaign

1. History of net search and recovery in M/V
2. Principles of net search and rescue
3. The future

Environmental impact of ghost nets

1. Licenses and permits
2. Protected wrecks and reefs

Team diving

1. Planning
2. Who does what
3. Positioning as a team
4. Hand signals

Recovery techniques

Required skills, performance and completion requirements

Skills must be performed in open water. Participants are required to successfully complete the following

1 Open Water Dive

1. Plan the dive.
2. Equipment configuration with redundant air supply.
3. Streamlined equipment in the water.
4. Buoyancy
5. Positioning and signaling of the team
6. DSMB deployment Planning the dive
7. Safe use of lifting bags
8. Participants practice and perform deployment of lifting bags with redundant air supply and neutral buoyancy
9. The teams recover objects (pots) with lifting bags and bring them to the surface in a controlled manner

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