Science Diving
As a consequence of the location of the majority of our projects being in the open water of the German Bight research requires assistance of both research vessels and scuba diving. While ship time is readily available and supplied by the AWI fleet, sampling, deployment, and retrieval of scientific equipment is mainly performed by our research diving crew. The IMARE diving group helds four certified German Scientific Divers incl. one dive mission leader.
Our Scientific Divers are committed for the follwoing research topics: Marine Aquaculture, Maritime Technologies and ICZM.
Apprenticeship
At the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) training for scientific divers is provided on the North Sea island Helgoland. In the course trainees get experience in dry suit diving, snorkelling, apnoe diving as well as the theory of diving, physical principles, diving medicine and first aid. The final examination is done by the Hauptverband der Berufsgenossenschaften (HVBG), the board, which also regulates scientific diving in Germany.