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PDC Offers One of The Most Comprehensive Commercial Diver Training Courses Worldwide
In Business 38 years since 1987!!

PDC SAT CHAMBER CONTROL LOCATED ON DSV DEEPWORX BRIDGE
PDC 3 MAN CLOSED BELL WITH RECLAIM & MARA PANEL USED FOR PDC SAT TRAINING
PDC SPARE MOBILE CLOSED BELL DIVE CONTROL IN 6M CONTAINER FOR SAT SYSTEM 3

PDC - Professional Diving Centre was registered as a Diving Business in 1987

38 years in the diving business up to 2025.

PDC has built up a very good reputation worldwide for commercial diver training

PDC Professional Diving centre is and has always been about providing comprehensive commercial diver training that prepares divers for handling underwater emergency situations that normally occur without warning.  PDC believes that comprehensive commercial diver training makes the difference between a diver staying calm and effectively responding to any sudden emergency compared to a diver not calm and trained for emergencies.  The comprehensive training that PDC offers could one day be the difference between a diver surviving to dive another day or not.   PDC commercial diver training also includes a wide range of common underwater working tasks & skills on the diver training courses.   


There are sayings that you should remember:  

1)  Cheap Training is not Good & Good Training is not Cheap.

2) You are only as good as your last dive and hopefully it was a successful productive dive.


As a potential diver you can invest in your own future or not.    

You will either feel you are worth the investment in yourself or not.

It is a personal choice that only you can make, as it could affect you & your dive career for the rest of your life.       Do not rush into training,  rather take your time and do the research & decide what is best for you.

 

Professional Diving Centre was a working dive company and started in house training as PDC could not find properly trained commercial divers who were trained in using professional equipment such as the Kirby Morgan range of helmets / band masks and who had a vast range of underwater tool and task skills.

Due to the lack of competent commercial divers available to PDC the PDC Diving School was opened, and a course was run each year giving PDC well trained divers to work with.  The demand for comprehensive commercial diver training became so demanding, that PDC then opened a full-time dive school and limited its diving work to only a few high risk & very specialized underwater work activates that other dive companies did not want to do.

Over the last 38 years PDC has built up a very good & unique reputation in commercial diver training and one which PDC is very proud of and is dedicated to continuing with.

Over the years, the trend of many commercial diving schools and instructors has been to simplify commercial diving instruction and reduce the skills taught, as well as the number of training dives and bottom times given to students in the practical section of diver training.

This has placed an extra burden on the dive companies employing these divers as they now have to provide extra on-the-job training above the normal dive task orientations causing delays, extra risks and costs incurred to them.

While you cannot learn everything about the practical diving work tasks on a diving course you do need to know how to use all the diving equipment and the full range of underwater tools safely as well as a range of basic work task skills so you can adapt to any tasks presented to you in your future as a commercial diver.

A FEW PDC VEHILES- DIVE CONTROL DIVE VAN, SCHOOL BUS, ROV VAN
PDC RIGGING CRANE TRUCK & TRAILER MOVING EQUIPMENT OUT OF DURBAN TO GANSBAAI
PDC CARGO TRUCK WITH CONTAINERIZED DIVE SPREAD LOADED FOR TRAINING

PDC has vast experience in all aspects of commercial diving – Air, Mixed Gas, Saturation, Hazmat etc.   PDC is here to provide you with a way above average of commercial diving and related training skills if you choose to want to get more out of your training investment.

Let the PDC Experience be used to your Advantage

Please note

PDC does not run the short fast minimal training courses that many schools do and PDC also does not do RPL training because divers have had 30 plus years to do proper commercial training and old habits are not easily changed and we have found so many false logbooks that are presented and most times even endorsed by dive companies with letters confirming all and most times even though we try we cannot properly verify anything.  The cost of proper commercial training creates the motivation to falsely present this bogus information and want the RPL assessment instead of proper commercial diver training.

This RPL training is a risk to every properly trained working commercial diver out there the world over and PDC believes it should not be allowed due to safety reasons and therefore PDC does not offer it or accept it.

PDC SCUBA TRAINING WITH SCUBA BAILOUT / FULL FACE MASK & LIFE LINE
PDC SURFACE SUPPLY DIVING FROM THE TRAINING VESSEL DSV DEEPWORX AT SEA
PDC DIVE BASKET TRAINING COMPLETED BEFORE THE START OF WET BELL TRAINING

About Grant Jameson

Grant Jameson has worked offshore as a Saturation Superintendent, Offshore Closed Bell Diving Supervisor, Offshore Air Diving Supervisor and as both Air and Closed Bell Diver when younger.  He still at times goes back offshore when requested and asked to, if he has the free time between training.

He started scuba diving as a young child in 1974 and in 1983 did his first commercial diving course. This gives him 42 years in the commercial diving industry.  He has done trained in the USA, UK and France as a commercial diver comparing the various approaches and trying to learn more from each dive school. He holds a UK HSE Part 1 and 2 Certification amongst other diving certifications.  He has worked both inshore and offshore in both air, surface mixed gas and saturation diving operations. He is a qualified air, surface mixed gas and HSE Part 1 & Part II saturation diver as well as a supervisor and instructor in each of these disciplines including Surface mixed gas Nitrox and Heliox Diving. He is also a Life Support Technician.  He started Professional Diving Centre in 1987, which was involved in various air and mixed gas diving operations over a 38-year period.

List of Grant Jameson’s Diving Qualifications

  • Closed Bell Saturation Diving Instructor
  • Closed Bell Saturation Diving Supervisor
  • LST Life Support Technician
  • Surface Mixed Gas Diving Instructor
  • Surface Mixed Gas Diving Supervisor
  • Air Diving Instructor
  • Air Diving Supervisor
  • Nitrox Diving Instructor
  • Nitrox Diving Supervisor
  • UK HSE Part 2 Diver
  • UK HSE Part 1 Diver
  • CSWIP Inspection Diver Expired years ago
  • Dive Technician and Dive Tech Equipment Instructor
  • Dive Lab/ Kirby Morgan Instructor
  • Gas Booster Transfer Pump Instructor
  • Welder land and Underwater and Underwater Welding Instructor AWS 3,6
  • Client Rep Course JFD
  • Dive Equipment and ROV Auditor Course JFD
  • The complete Range of DOL Diving & Dive Supervisor Qualifications

Grant had Professional Diving Centre train its own commercial divers in-house during this time and later due to constant demand for diver training, changed its roll from dive work to full time commercial dive training.  Grant Jameson never believed in the minimum training standard but rather added to the minimum standard of what the industry actually needs the diver to know as extra and be competent in.

Professional Diving Centre now trains divers, supervisors, A/LST’s and IMCA diver medics for 23 international diving companies, police and defence forces as well as private individuals. He is the owner and training manager of Professional Diving Centre. He has trained gas blenders for gas companies and also helped gas supply companies mix / blend gas for dive companies when they have not had enough staff and were under pressure to get gas mixtures out into the industry.

Grant Jameson has written several training manuals over the years

  • The PDC Commercial Air Diving Manual
  • The PDC Chamber Operator Manual
  • The PDC IMCA Diver Medic Manual
  • The PDC Commercial Nitrox Manual
  • The PDC Surface Mixed Gas Manual
  • The PDC HAZMAT Manual – used by Fire Departments and Police Departments
  • The PDC A/LST Life Support Technician Manual
  • The Closed Bell Saturation Manual
  • The PDC Rigging & Truck Crane Manual

All the above 10 Manuals were written by Grant Jameson and are used as student textbooks on the various PDC courses & used by many in the dive industry as reference manuals. They have plenty colour photos and diagrams in them as well

Some of Grants non diving certificates & qualifications are listed below for interest

  • Master Vessels under 1600 GRT tonnage
  • Skipper Vessels under 200 GRT Tonnage
  • Skipper boats under 25 GRT Tonnage
  • Marine motorman Grade 1 (Engine Rooms)
  • Marine Motorman Grade 2 (Engine Rooms)
  • Ex Paramedic and Fireman Run shift at Fire Dept 18 months left to go back to diving
  • Mobile Crane Operator as well as 85-ton Truck Crane Operator and Advanced Rigger
  • NDT Land Technician UT, MPT etc.
  • Long Distance Extra Heavy and abnormal load Trucking with HAZMAT Licence.

For Grant Jameson the Diving Industry has always remained his passion and ensuring divers are safe both in training & training standards and work sites, between the diving work rotations on & off many of the above training and experience was done over the 42 years of commercial diving.

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