Reply To: Buying advertisement on ROVworld

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Ray Shields
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Hi Chewy

For your apprentices certs to be recognized in the industry the Company or Academy needs to be a fully paid up member of IMCA . All the requirements are on the IMCA web site in PDF format or you can have a chat with chris.baldwin@imca-int.com he will confirm this .

Other wise the whole thing is wide open to misuse .

Not sure that is true.

IMCA have produced competency guidelines. IMCA do not certify or endorse any certification or training company.

People, anyone, are free to train and assess people to these competencies. This does not make them certified or trained by IMCA, at best they have been assessed based on IMCA competencies. For Chewy to train anyone, his piece of paper he produces has the same weight as one produced by any other training company in the world. As long as they do not say they are certified ROV Pilots, as there is no such certification in the world.

It is worth whatever any employer wishes to think it is worth in their opinion. The company I worked for were full IMCA members, none of their training or competencies met IMCA standards.

I understand where he is coming from, would you accept the training given by a training school that only has classrooms and basic equipment (if at all) or by a company that actually owns and operated ROV equipment and trains you using actual live ROVs?

However, I also agree that while it may be good for the company to use their facilities while times are lean, I would not encourage people to pay out money to do it on the vague hope that the industry might pick up and this might get them a job.

If anyone wants to do training for the future, I would suggest technical skills that can be used in other industries (hydraulics, high voltage, electronics fibre optics). An ROV training course is only applicable for a job in ROVs, fibre optics can be used in ROV and many industries, for example.

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