Underwater Welder Training

Now fully accredited through EAL/SEMTA Awards

If you are a training school wishing to adopt our new internationally accredited ‘self-teach’ programme, please read on. If you are a diver interested in our underwater welding course you can download the course brochure and syllabus from the blue download box, otherwise please click here to read more on underwater wet welding.  For general welder training please follow the link from the top toolbar.

The WeldCraft-Pro^® is available as a ‘self-teach’ programme, now accredited through EAL (EMTA Awards), part of SEMTA - Sector Skills Council for Science, Engineering and Manufacturing Technologies and is the UK’s leading awarding body for engineering qualifications. This accreditation provides independent, quality assured, audited recognition of the WeldCraft-Pro^® training programme, thus, making it the only externally awarded wet welding training programme to issue internationally recognised qualifications anywhere in the world. More information about EAL and SEMTA can be found here.

Our training course is based on an 80 hour work programme, split over two phases (dry and wet). The course is open to both non-welders and welders alike and follows the International Institute of Welding (IIW) syllabus 570-01 for fillet welder - plate (see course syllabus for full details).

The WeldCraft-Pro^® uses a well proven, detailed documented methodology to teach, utilising our professional teaching materials, expertise and accreditation, but using your own instructor(s). This allows you to run a recognised verified welding programme, using approved teaching materials, delivered through your school and staff, resulting in internationally recognised certification, issued under our EAL accreditation.

Obstacles to the delivery of the course are kept to a minimum, but an initial application is required to be completed. If acceptable, this is followed by a site audit to ensure the necessary facilities/ equipment and staff are in place. This will also include a briefing of your key staff in the use and delivery of the materials and familiarisation of all QA documents and procedures involved. (This initial visit is offered on a no-labour charge basis (excluding all travel costs). Following a successful site visit, an invitation to proceed will be offered, or details provided of any areas which might need improving. A licence agreement will then be signed in order to proceed, followed by delivery of all teaching materials. You will then need to register each student; we will then provide you with their unique test record/issue number, as used for certification.

Should you wish to make an initial enquiry, please fill out the application form click here and return this to us and we will be pleased to provide a copy of the course briefing notes and fee structure.

Underwater Welder Training - Individual Diver Enquiries

If you are interested in underwater welding read on. For general welder training please follow the Welder Training link above.

Learning to weld underwater has never been easier and ‘NO’ you don’t have to be a skilled welder to benefit from our training. Although underwater ‘wet-stick’ welding is manual metal arc (MMA) welding, we can teach you the skills more quickly and effectively, as the techniques used are far less involved than with conventional dry (MMA) welding.

Example of students workmanship before and after training

Course Outline
A highly specialised training programme, designed for commercial divers serious about obtaining high quality Manual Metal Arc (MMA) welding skills both above and below water. The course follows the guidelines under the European Welding Federation (EWF) with qualifications being awarded in accordance with BS EN ISO 15618-1 and/or AWS D3.6-99M.

The training is designed to equip commercial divers with the skills necessary to produce high quality fillet welds. Students will be introduced to all the relevant theory associated with the MMA welding process, together with relevant safe working practices, etc. Each specific topic is covered by a lecture where the learning outcome is clearly identified. (These outcomes can be seen in the course syllabus).

Content
An intensive one or two-week, closely supervised training course, providing both theoretical and practical hands-on experience for both wet and dry welding. The course consists of a series of lectures together with written and practical assignments and ultimately culminates in an end of course examination and welder qualification test. The practical exercises concentrate on developing the skills necessary to produce defect free fillet welds, and the theory is covered by a series of lectures covering 9 learning outcomes, which include the following;

1: Safe underwater welding procedures
2: MMA welding plant & equipment
3: Underwater welding techniques
4: Preparing to weld
5: Electrodes & weld terminology
6: Basic weldability & common weld defects
7: Monitor & control welding operations
8: Quality assurance & quality control
9: Join steel plates using the three standard techniques

Who Should Attend?
All newly qualified and/or experienced commercial divers/engineers working in the marine, shipping, construction and oil/gas industries with or without previous welding experience.

Locations:

Training is currently available at the following approved/licensed commercial diving schools

The Professional Diving Academy - Scotland

For course details and start dates click here.

The Commercial Diving Academy - Jacksonville, Florida USA

For course details and start dates click here.

Client specific
Bespoke training can also be provided at a number of locations round the UK. We also offer onsite options at any location around the world, subject to suitable facilities being available. Contact us for more details.