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Recommended Training Providers

We can highly recommend Adventure Scotland for providers of Rescue 3 Swift Water Rescue Training North of the Border. They teach numerous Fire and Rescue Services as well as various Outdoor Professionals and it is this cross fertilisation of various skills, ideas and solutions that we believe enables them to provide a course not out of a book but out of actually doing it. We are proud to choose them as our provider of choice, try them we know you won’t be disappointed.

Does exactly what it says on the Tin, HSE Approved Diver Training.

Alan White BEM runs the best HSE Offshore Medics Course in the World! Big words but we (having tried the rest) stand by that, period! Don’t waste your money elsewhere, and no we don’t work for them.

Rescue 3 International was founded in 1979 after a California search and rescue team nearly lost one of its own during a water rescue. Nearly 30 years later our mission remains the same: to provide flood, water, and rope rescue training to individuals and organizations with an emphasis on ways to keep rescuers from becoming victims. As a result, Rescue 3 has risen to become the recognized leader in water and flood rescue, training over 90,000 students throughout the US and 32 foreign countries. H3O Staff choose Rescue 3 Swift Water Rescue Technician and Advanced Swift Water Rescue Technician qualifications for their worldwide recognition.

Recommended Service Providers

Bickers provide total inventive solutions, always-utilising strong mechanical understanding and resourcefulness. With this basic principle, Bickers Action can meet the industries ever increasing demands and help produce ‘the best’ film and TV stunt action. They also understand Divers, which is a bonus.

McKenna Consultants specialises in Agile Software Development, Project Management and IT Consultancy for small and medium enterprises.

Recommended Equipment Providers

Our first choice in providing Professional Diving Products and Support Services wherever we are in the World.

Make the warmest, driest solutions for under Dry suits we have found to date. Also a whole range a great looking wet suits.

Industry standard Rope Access and Rescue Equipment for a reason, brilliant kit, tested to destruction with the research and development to prove it.

We sometimes look like we are sponsored by North Face (we wish!) because of the amount of gear we buy from them. It was never intentional, it is just they are always pushing the goal posts on development and it’s equipment we have come to trust and rely on in the environmentally demanding conditions we work in.

Professional Bodies

The HSE Approved Code of Practice for Diving Operations. Familiarise your self with these Guidelines we work to them, so should you.

BBC Requirements for Diving Operations, we are more than happy to see the BBC take a lead in the Safety and Well being of our Divers. Production staff, if you abide by these guidelines you won’t go far wrong.

The International Association of Dive Rescue Specialists is dedicated to helping water rescue professional’s stay informed about advances in training, equipment, and life saving techniques. The IADRS will continue to maintain an environment where water rescue professionals can communicate, so that we may all learn from our combined knowledge and experience. We are proud members of the IADRS.

Recommended Reading

The oldest and best Specialist Rescue publication in the World and we are happy to subscribe.

Interesting Links

Animated knots by Grog is a great training resource, I'm sure you'll agree?

The Serpent Project is an example of where Industry meets nature, and we discover nature still holds a lot of surprises.