ECU Diving and Water Safety
The ECU Diving and Water Safety Office is a specialized service unit within the Institute for Coastal Science and Policy (http://www.ecu.edu/icsp/ICSP/ICSP.html). Diving and Water Safety provides training, research support, equipment, maintenance, and safety over-site to University Programs and individuals involved in scientific diving, water-related research, and scuba instruction.
07/25/2023
Two special scientific divers and alumni of , Cathy and Russ Green, visited the Dive Locker recently to check in on their alma mater and reminisce about the good times on the water. Great to see you two and keep up the amazing work!
04/16/2023
We are getting really excited about our upcoming collaborative project in Saipan! Funded by a NOAA Ocean Exploration the project involves colleagues and citizen scientists from Saipan, the US, Australia and Japan and includes marine biology, archaeology, history, conservation sciences. Stay tuned for updates as we prepare for launching the project. https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/2023-expeditions/welcome.html
11/24/2022
Happy Scientific Diving week! And Happy Thanksgiving from ECU DWS!
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03/02/2022
ECU's Diving and Water Safety Office is excited to contribute a team of divers providing in-water support for this exciting and innovative competition.
📆 Coming soon: The !
After nearly three years of hard work, Waves To Water Prize competitors will finally make their way to the Outer Banks and test their wave-energy-powered desalination prototypes in the water this April. 🌊➡️💧
Get on board! ⛵ https://bit.ly/DRINKFinale
04/11/2021
On Friday and Saturday the Research Methods in Nautical Archaeology class got to dip their toes in the Tar River and learn mapping techniques on the Copper shipwreck. Buddy teams in the water learned about taking offsets and how to use trilateration to map the vessel while teams on land learned about metal detecting, RTK coordinates, artifact drawing, and photography.
03/30/2021
Students from the Maritime Studies Program have been working on a Motorboat Operators Certification Course (MOCC). It's a Department of the Interior course that all their employees are required to take. Today they worked on basic water rescue skills like trying out life jackets and doing rescues, then went out to VOA and did knot tying, firefighting, tried out some flares, and practiced backing up with trailers. We will be posting more pictures as they continue with their certification!
Happy Halloween from the ECU Diving and Water Safety Office! Diving Nitrox for the first time can be a little intimidating but not for this fearless group! Everyone had a great dive and the scariest thing to happen all day was a student ALMOST losing a Shearwater dive computer to the deep, dark depths of the quarry!
Have a safe and healthy Halloween!
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10/31/2020
This weekend the maritimers at East Carolina University are working on their Advanced Open Water (AOW) Certifications at Mystery Lake Scuba Park. Getting AOW allows students to go deeper and opens up more opportunities to do research on different sites. The skills learned in AOW teaches students to accomplish tasks in a new type of environment and prepares them to handle underwater stressors with greater composure.