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The next UAD course is scheduled for September 28-29. Registration is $250 for UASBC members and $290 for non-members. Contact Jacques Marc to sign up!UAD is a 16-hour, 2-day course, with a 2-hour pool session and an open water survey dive.
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The UASBC offers its own custom course called Underwater Archaeology for Divers (UAD).
The objective of the course is to give sport and technical divers the knowledge, skills, and ability to conduct research, search for and survey shipwrecks and other submerged cultural heritage sites and document the results.
The course is designed to introduce students to the essential skills required to undertake basic underwater archaeological recording work. The course also covers principles of u/w archaeology, basic survey techniques, an overview of sites around the Pacific Northwest and the legal aspect of underwater heritage sites. The course includes 3 hands-on sessions where divers practice their skills in the pool, in the ocean and measure and draw an artefact.
Upon completing the course divers receive an Underwater Archaeology, Certificate of Achievement.
Course Curriculum:
Module 1: Introduction to Underwater Archaeology.
Module 2: Wreck Site Formation
Module 3 Researching Shipwrecks in the PNW
Module 4: Visual Searches, Remote Sensing & Position Fixing
Module 5: Survey procedures and methodologies.
Module 6: Laws governing wreck protection salvage and underwater archaeology
Module 7: Dive Planning & Safely
Module 8: In Situ Preservation, Recovery and Treatment
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