At least two times a month Rasmus Hansen dresses up in his red diving suit and jumps into the water. To keep his status as a diver in the Danish Navy, a number of requirements have to be fulfilled.

The training as a diver happens at the Danish Navy Diving School at Holmen and takes six weeks. “I am qualified to dive to 30 meter, to conduct professional diving and to use gas mixtures,” says Rasmus Hansen, who is member of the crew on THETIS.

He has applied for admission to a supplementary course, which will qualify him as a ‘heavy’ or surface supplied diver. “They have a helmet and get air through an umbilical, whereas today I work with air cylinders on my back.”

During DANEX 06 Rasmus Hansen has used his diving suit. It happened while THETIS was at anchor off Djursland. “I was tasked to inspect the propeller. A leak was suspected,” he says. The job below THETIS took 30 minutes.

Text: Michael Christiansen, SPAO DATG