1400 PIERSIDE ST., BLDG. 190, SUITE C, N. CHARLESTON, SC 29405 PHONE 843-740-1124
Learn how to dive, weld and work underwater. No prior diving or welding experience required, we will teach you! Take our course in Air Mixed Gas Surface Supplied Diving (helmet diving) and get your commercial diving certification in just four months. Partial financing now available. The International Diving Institute (IDI) is a member of the Association of Diving Contractors International (ADCI), and trains to the Standards published by the Association of Commercial Diving Educators (ACDE), the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the Multinational Diving Educators Association, and the Sea Research Society (SRS). The Institute's mission is to prepare our graduates for a career in the commercial diving industry as entry-level divers/tenders who excel in knowledge, skills and safety. In order to receive an ADCI certification card one must have adequate training and possess a valid certificate. Our curriculum meets and exceeds the ACDE/ANSI training standards ensuring our students will receive an ADCI certification card upon graduation. The benefits of obtaining an ADCI certification card is it's worldwide recognition and acceptance internationally.
When you enter today's challenging, yet exciting and rewarding field of commercial diving, you will have the opportunity to build a career that offers you personal satisfaction, advancement opportunities and diversity of assignments.*
Today's diving industry calls for life-long training. Often times people change careers two or three times in a lifetime. However, commercial diving can provide a career with endless growth potential while engaging in a vast array of adventurous opportunities. In just a few months you can be on your way to this highly respected, and exclusive career. Whether you plan to engage in underwater burning or underwater welding, IDI can offer you the appropriate courses being a top quality commercial diving school. This is accomplished through IDI's training philosophy of small class sizes, equal amounts of classroom time and hands on real world experience. Our staff brings a plethora of experience and knowledge to the table from oil platforms to Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal, our students have the privilege of working side by side with these industry experts.
Today's diving industry calls for life-long training. Often times people change careers two or three times in a lifetime. However, commercial diving can provide a career with endless growth potential while engaging in a vast array of adventurous opportunities. In just a few months you can be on your way to this highly respected, and exclusive career. Whether you plan to engage in underwater burning or underwater welding, IDI can offer you the appropriate courses being a top quality commercial diving school. This is accomplished through IDI's training philosophy of small class sizes, equal amounts of classroom time and hands on real world experience. Our staff brings a plethora of experience and knowledge to the table from oil platforms to Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal, our students have the privilege of working side by side with these industry experts.
Real-world projects, with the same pressures and deadlines are used to help acquire the high demand skills for commercial diving. IDI's curriculum facilitates both entry level and advanced diver training. IDI's facility is designed as a safe, state of the art and realistic open water work-site environment located on the former navy base in Charleston, South Carolina this allows on-site access to a Navy YD (yards and docks) crane barge for excellent training. IDI's students not only gain technical skills, but also develop the professional qualities that are attractive to employers of commercial divers.
In addition to IDI's commercial diving courses students may also take courses for SCUBA instruction (from basic open-water diver to instructor level). IDI has two 54" hyperbaric chambers (for recompression and decompression), one of which is fitted for saturation diving (i.e. a dive bell can be attached to it). The other, built in the United Kingdom (UK), was certified by Lloyd's in 2004. IDI has a wide variety of equipment by manufacturers and designers such as Desco, Gorski, Klein, Miller Dunn, and Kirby Morgan. Our main campus and dive site are located on the Cooper River less than one block from the H.L. Hunley submarine conservation lab and only minutes from the heart of historic Charleston's downtown.
Divers can purchase commercial dive equipment through IDI's retail dive shop located at the main campus, recreational (scuba) diving equipment may also be purchased or rented here as well. Why train in weather that is either too cold or too hot? Come join the millions of tourists who visit Charleston every year and enjoy South Carolina's coastal climate, beautiful sand beaches and fine dining.
* IDI prefers and uses the terms commercial diving, commercial divers and professional divers. However, professional divers are frequently known to the general public as deepsea (deep-sea) divers, helmet divers and hardhat divers.
* IDI prefers and uses the terms commercial diving, commercial divers and professional divers. However, professional divers are frequently known to the general public as deepsea (deep-sea) divers, helmet divers and hardhat divers.
