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DIVING

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Diving capabilities

Rohan Holt has been diving for around 40 years, 30 of them professionally and all qualifications are kept current through regular revision of skills and training other divers. His most relevant certification includes:
  • Health and Safety Executive Part IV diver
  • British Sub-Aqua Club (BSAC) First Class Diver
  • BSAC Club Instructor
  • PADI Dive Master
  • Advanced European Scientific Diver
  • SDSC Diving Supervisor
  • Trimix open circuit (to 60 m)
  • Diver Medic Technician (advanced first aid and life support)
  • Current HSE Diving Medical & Seafarer Medical (ENG1)
This qualifies Rohan to work on diving projects that fall within the scope of the:
  • Scientific & Archaeological Approved Code of Practice (ACoP)
  • Commercial Inland / Inshore ACoP
  • Media ACoP
  • Recreational ACoP

Diving health and safety advice and training

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Rohan is a member of the Scientific Diving Supervisory Committee who represent scientific diving contractors throughout the UK. The group liaises with the Diving Section of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to promote safe diving practices and standardise qualifications. Rohan's work with this group has included an analysis of diving incident statistics, revising the Approved Code of Practice for Scientific and Archaeological Diving, the production of Advice notes for Scientific and Archeological Diving in the UK and providing advice to divers in the Statutory Nature Conservation Bodies in the UK.

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Pictures from our recent Scientific Diving Supervisor course run in conjunction with Francis Bunker from Marine Seen for Natural England's dive team in Plymouth

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Underwater Video

Getting close to nature is often a challenge. Knowing how to create the opportunities and then get the footage requires specialist knowledge of the wildlife, remote filming techniques and where to go to maximise your chances of success. This grey seal was as intent as I was in ensuring the subject matter was framed properly! Photo credit: Kate Northen, Blue-C Ecology.
Follow this link for more underwater video.
Underwater video
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Biological surveys and monitoring

Underwater marine biological survey and scientific diving logistics have been a big part of Rohan Holt's career. Using a variety of survey and monitoring techniques he has experience of collecting scientific data from all round the UK and from other temperate and tropical locations world-wide. See the marine biology page.
marine biology
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Underwater photography

Survey and scientific monitoring, diving magazine articles, identification guides and documentary. Our underwater photos have appeared in a wide variety of publications, news items and on TV. Here, Rohan Holt is one of the first divers from the UK to dive on the cold-water coral reefs, deep in Trondheim Fjord, Norway. Photo credit: George Brown.

Underwater gallery

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Axinella dissimilis, Bardsey Is.
Conger E. Anglesey
Lobster, Homarus gammarus. Pen Llyn
Diver with Arctica islandica
Basking shark
Dragonette
Chris Holden with methane carbonate on Holden's Reef
Pachycerianthus fireworks anemone
Aequipecten scallop and Protanthea anemones
Corynactis jewel anemones. St Kilda
Coryphella browni nudibranch
Ciona intestinalis, Lochcarron
Arachnanthus sarsi, Firth of Lorn
Dead man's fingers Alcyonium digitatum, Plymouth
Caryophyllia smithii cup corals, St Kilda
Jewel and Sagartia anemones, St Kilda
Seasearch diver and Ross coral Pentapora
Dog fish, hydroids and bryozoans, Bardsey Is.
Kelp canopy, W Ireland
Fish survey, Cardigan Bay
Jewel anemones, St Kilda
Sea fans, sponges and corals, Chagos
Wrasse and diver, Port Erin breakwater
Diver with sea pens Funiculina quadrangularis, Loch Sunart
Octopus, Eledone cirrhosa, Canna
Laminaria digitata at low water
Diver in Pen y Cil tunnel, Pen Llyn
Divers in Glassan rock cave
Galathea strigosa squat lobster, St Kilda
White tip, Chagos
Grouper, Chagos
Crystal clear water Chagos
Coral head, Chagos
Guillemot underwater, St Kilda
Parazoanthus axinellae Bardsey Is.
Rohan on Lophelia reef, Trondheimfjord
Gorgonian seafan Paramuricea placomus, Trondheimfjord
Deep water jellyfish Periphylla periphylla, Trondheim Fjord
Lophelia pertusa, Trondheimfjord
Chimaera monstrosa rat fish, Trondheimfjord
Paragorgia arborea, Trondheimfjord
Mantis shrimp Rissoides desmaresti, Cardigan Bay
Lophelia, Paragorgia arborea, Paramuricea placomus and Gorgonocephalus caputmedusae
Tarpon Megalops atlanticus, Tobago
Simnia patula on Eunicella, Devon
Lump sucker Cyclopterus lumpus Lochcarron
Diminutive goby Lebetus scorpioides, Lochcarron
Diver Stewart McPherson Chagos
Giant kelp, Gough Is.
Fixing monitoring site markers, Smalls Is.
Pachycerianthus multiplicatus and diver, Loch Fyne
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