The Underwater Centre picked up a top award at the inaugural Energy North Awards Ceremony held in Inverness on 29 September 2011. The Centre won in the Best Oil and Gas Industry Service Supplier category which recognizes companies that are involved in the oil and gas industry in the HIE region. The primary focus at the Underwater Centre is providing industry specific skills and competency training for commercial divers and ROV pilots; helping graduates with their new careers and providing the energy sector with the workforce that it requires.
The Underwater Centre’s General Manager, Steve Ham said: “It is an honor to have won this award and it is testament to the hard work of all the staff at the Centre who have helped to deliver our service in the UK and further afield.”
The Underwater Centre is the only training centre that offers the full range of Health and Safety Executive (HSE) commercial diving qualifications in air and mixed gas diver training, from HSE SCUBA to HSE Closed Bell diving. Located at the head of Loch Linnhe, the Centre offers a unique sheltered, seawater site with a large private pier extending into the loch. The waters plunge to depths of 150m, which are ideal conditions for commercial diving and ROV training. A large, purpose built, onshore diver and ROV training tank complex is also on site.