Realistic Confined Spaces Training For Defence Divers

CLIENT

Ministry of Defence

OBJECTIVE

To Improve the understanding of key steps for divers and support teams operating in confined spaces, training in all required aspects of diver training.

APPROACH

A highly realistic VR headset confined spaces training experience for diving professionals and teams.

The Problem

Diving is a highly specialized activity that comes with significant risks like equipment failure, communication breakdown, or hazardous underwater environments. If proper procedures aren’t followed precisely, divers can face serious incidents. For military and commercial divers, the need for realistic, repeatable, and risk-free training solutions is critical. Without an effective way to rehearse in controlled conditions, divers may enter the water unprepared, leading to operational inefficiencies and compromised safety.

High Risk: Diving is a potentially hazardous activity that can lead to safety incidents if procedures are not correctly followed.

Costly and Resource Intensive: Traditional training methods are labor intensive, dangerous, costly and time consuming.

Limited Repetition and Scalability: Hands-on training is often constrained by time, location, and available resources which limits how often divers can actually practice.

For military divers, the need for a realistic, repeatable, and risk-free training solution is essential. Without an effective way to rehearse procedures in a safe and controlled environment, divers could enter the water unprepared leading to compromised safety.

The solution – Realistic confined spaces training for divers

To address these challenges, SHIIFT created a immersive training solution deployed via a VR headset for end users to train and mission rehearse in a safe environment, prior to getting into real water.

Features include:

• Multi-player VR solution covering familiarization and training for divers enabling team members to train collaboratively within the same scenario.
• Photo-realistic scenes of environments and equipment that enhances realisim of the diving simulation, keeping users immersed during training.
• Divers can have repetitive practice for mission rehearsal, allowing them to prepare for specific operations in a controlled setting, reducing uncertainty unlocking mastery and confidence of all essential skills before facing real-world diving conditions.

What started out as a ‘nice to have’ concept developed by the SHIIFT Training team and supported by the MOD’s J-Hub incubator, has now become an essential requirement for aspects of defence diver training.

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