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Professional Divers Training Academy is currently assisting students affected by the closure of The Underwater Center in Tasmania and subsequent course cancellations. PDTA wish all of the staff affected by the closure all of the best and offer staff our support. Read More

Occupational diving supervisor (Part 1 SCUBA) commences for Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority staff at Reef HQ in Townsville. Read More

PDTA students this week started their ADAS Part 1 Restricted (Scientific) course training with students completing training dives at the Melbourne Aquarium. Read More

Well done Rebecca, Nicole, Chris, Callum, Tomasz & Estaban on completing their ADAS occupational scuba program last month and joined by Angus this month also completed their ADAS occupational SSBA training. Read More

Preparing divers for final cutting and welding dives in Melbourne. Read More

Occupational SSBA Part 2 is in its second week with students gaining valuable experience in detailed underwater survey techniques as well as using a variety of commercial diving tools in PDTA’s purpose built dive training tank.      Read More

PDTA training staff attend annual ADAS occupational diver training establishments and participated in a number of workshops reviewing various aspects of occupational diver training.Malcolm Venturoni, Director Professional Divers Training Academy, Herb Mitton, Operations Manager The Underwater Centre Read More

All students continuing to progress through the course at a high level, passing exams and completing diving tasks. Underwater tasks included rescue scenarios, underwater searches, structure surveys and photography, and light tool tasks.  Students also completed Nitrox training and will now be movin Read More

Occupational SCUBA Part 1 commences with students being introduced to various diving maladies ranging from Dysbaric Osteonecrosis to Decompression Illness taught by leading experts in the field.  Read More

We recently asked some of our Part 1 Occupational SCUBA graduates to describe what they considered to be the best aspects of their training.  Thanks for the great feedback guys!"Hands-on skills training and real worksite environment" "The family we've become with the instructors and all personnel" Read More