TRAINING COURSE FOR:
DIVER TOURISTIC ASSISTANT
REQUISITES FOR ADMISSION:
Junior Secondary School-leaving certificate
Aptitude psychophysical fitness verified according to what is prescribed in the health card attached to the Ministerial Decree Merchant Navy of 13.01.1979.

TECHNICAL-OPERATIONAL TRAINING FILE:
Psychophysical strengthening
h. 20
Preparatory Technical training in the SWIMMING POOL
h. 30
Technical Operational training in LAKE
h. 72
Technical Operational training in THE SEA
h. 24
Night Practical Training
h. 8
Operativeness in the Training Turret (even at 0 zero visibility)
h. 10
Practical Training in the Hyperbaric Chamber
h. 10
General and Specific Marine
h. 10
Mechanics of the Scuba
h. 6
Mechanics of regulators
h. 5
Rescue and Artificial Respiration
h. 5
Accident-prevention Techniques
h. 30
Safety Protocols and Methodologies
h. 25
Dive planning and Risk Prevention
h. 10

PROFESSIONAL THEORETICAL SUBJECTS:
  Human anatomy
h.10
  Human Physiology
h.10
  Applied Technique/Theory of Comp./Dec Tables
h.70
  Under-water Physiopathology
h.20
  Study of accidents, Hygiene and Preventive Safety
h.12
  Respiratory Gas Mixtures
h.10
  Notions of (general and specific) First Aid
h.15
  Artificial Respiration and Cardiac Massage
h.5
  Socioeconomic Information
h.48
  Provisions of the sector:
- Legislation concerning the protection of the environment;
- Under-water activity;
- Notions of the Navigation Code;
- Touristic and sports organization concerning civil and penal responsibilities;
- Professional ethics;
- Protected sea zones;
- Coastal sea system.
h.20
  Elements of Sea Biology:
- Notions of systematics of acquatic living organisms;
- Floral-faunal describers;
- Estimate of the biological seabed cover;
- Trophical load and biological production;
- Biology of fishing;
- Outlines of microbiology;
- Malacology.
h.35
  Geology and Sedimentology:
- The concept of geology;
- Notions of geology and coastal morphology;
- Notions of sedimentology and particle-size analysis;
- Coastal solid transport.
h.15
  Marine ecology and coastal hydrology:
- outlines of hydrology;
- biokinetics;
- coastal Ecotypology;
- indexes of environmental quality;
- particular coastal environments;
- outlines of chemistry and physics of waters;
- interventions aimed at the environmental reclamation .
h.30
  General elements of History:
- of the territory;
- marine archaeology;
- geography;
- sea traditions, usages and customs;
- systems of fishing and aquaculture in the Italian Region.
h.25
  Activity of collaboration with the Civil Defence, the Local Bodies, Schools and other Bodies of the field
h.10

TOTAL HOURS OF THEORETICAL-PRACTICAL TRAINING
h.600
FINAL EXAMS: 3 written exams of 5 hours each
h.15
FINAL EXAMS : n° 1 oral and practical exam
h.3
TOTAL HOURS
h.618
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