IMCA Bell Diving Supervisor Examination – Recommended Study Material
Summary
IMCA is frequently asked for a study guide to help candidates preparing to sit the IMCA Bell Diving Supervisor certification examination.
As part of the recent revision of the IMCA exam system, all IMCA Supervisor and LST exams are now generated from a question bank, ensuring that no two exams are the same. In addition, the exam is now delivered electronically at a nominated exam centre with candidates only viewing one exam question at a time.
It would therefore be advantageous for anyone planning to sit the BDS exam to be comfortable with taking online tests and using online calculators.
Where practicable, it would be useful for BDS candidates to practice taking online quizzes/tests and using online calculators before sitting the IMCA examination.
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Information Note Details
Published date: 30 September 2021
Information note ID: 1578
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IMCA-InformationNote-1578Related Guidance
- Bell ballast release systems and buoyant ascent in offshore diving operations
- Guidelines for oxy-arc cutting
- Guidance on diving operations in the vicinity of pipelines
- Guidance on testing of through-water communications
- Diving operations from vessels operating in dynamically positioned mode
- IMCA offshore diving supervisor and life support technician certification schemes
- IMCA international code of practice for offshore diving
- Guidance on open parachute type underwater air lift bags
- Lost bell survival
- Diving in contaminated waters
- Guidance for diving supervisors
- Diving Equipment Systems Inspection Guidance Note (DESIGN) for surface orientated (air) diving systems
- Guidance on installation based diving operations and the evacuation of divers from installations
- Recommended practice on the use of chain lever hoists in the offshore subsea environment
- Cross-hauling of bells
- Limitations in the use of SCUBA offshore
- Neurological assessment of a diver
- Use of battery-operated equipment in hyperbaric conditions
- Diver and ROV based concrete mattress handling, deployment, installation, repositioning and decommissioning
- Code of practice for the safe use of electricity under water
- Code of practice for the use of high pressure jetting equipment by divers
- Guidance on hyperbaric evacuation systems
- Remotely operated vehicle intervention during diving operations
- Diver attachment to structures by means of a weak link
- Guidelines for lifting operations
- Guidance on health, fitness and medical issues in diving operations
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