So getting back to my original point, where is the best training facility to become an ROV pilot.
Comment from an ex Sat diver.
The issue here is there is no regulation of the training schools and therefore no way of judging if one is any better than the other.
So, the real question is why should anyone attend a training course in the first instance, at an unregulated training establishment?
Take an HSE Pt II Sat divers course for example. There are strict safety and training requirements that must be met according to the law of the land (UK) under HSE regulations. As a diver you will know that HSE regulations are law (so adherence is mandatory) not simply guidelines that companies can choose to abide by or not.
In the ROV industry there is no such control or legal requirements.
If you feel the need to attend a course then I would say attend one nearest to your home location, get the bit of paper (Pilot Tech 2 or whatever it says on it) and then put it away, because in real terms it’ll not be worth the paper it’s printed on. These courses should only be deemed to give those, with pre existing technical qualifications and experience ,nothing other than an insight into what ROV’s are about. Such a course certainly won’t make anyone an ROV Pilot nor a Tech.
If you have been in the offshore game for a while I feel you’d be better off forgetting the course idea, phoning around your contacts list and seeing of you can get in that way. That is of course assuming you already have the technical background our industry needs and something a course at a so called ‘training school’ will never give you.
best of luck
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