Things To Consider Before Going Into Commercial Diving

Things To Consider Before Going Into Commercial Diving

Commercial diving is the next level to scuba diving and is the true way of making good money out of being underwater but it is the hazardous side of diving and it isn’t all that fun. It’s not for the faint-hearted neither you have to be pretty tough and it isn’t an easy industry to get into. There’s also lots you need to know about commercial that you can’t know unless you’ve been in or around the industry. Now I’m not a commercial diver but I have spent a lot of time with them so if there are any commercial boys and girls out there in the comments let us know your wisdom.

So I’m back from holiday and it seems you want to know about things to consider before going into commercial diving.

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Vice

Cdt Diving

The Salty Diver

Divers Institute of Technology

MASTER LAB

diverandy77

Rannar Laur

The Salty Diver

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[Freehotdawgs]

haha I'm actually in one of those video clips

[ourlittlehomestead]

I worked as a "commercial diver" at an aquarium. It was nothing like this of course, just diving 15-30 foot tanks and cleaning up shark poop all day, but since we were technically commercial divers according to OSHA we had to follow all the same rules so we had to have a standby diver at the surface. The water was so shallow the diver and standby could wave to each other and see it clearly, it was kinda ridiculous.

[robgraham]

Did my commercial dive training when i was 17 never looked back absolutely love it, finding work is tough though!

[fathomsdeeper]

Oh yes, the fun of chainsawing pilings off in pitch black PCB contaminated water with unknown things bumping into you.  Or diving in a paper sludge tank with sulfuric acid eating the colors of your new drysuit and turning it gray.

[garysmith]

My son is a SAT diver. He will be 30 next month...had his first child recently..decided to stay topside for a while..he has some interesting stories. Definately a certain breed for this job..

[nicholaschelala]

You sat divers are amazing. It takes certain individuals to do that type of work, respect to you people👍

[NNarcsis]

I'm a Commercial Diver in the USA and so far finding work has been pretty easy to find, but it is hard work and alot of hours.

[danielpercent]

I want to pursue this job. I know its difficult to get in to. I know it's not easy, and its dangerous. I don't have welding skills, nor do I have diving skills. The odds are greatly stacked against me, but that's fine. I am 26 years old and I finally figured out what I want to do in life. If I never get this job but I keep pursuing it in life that's also fine. Knowing what you want but never being able to achieve it is way better then never knowing what you want in life.

[kurtsteiner]

There is one in southern England too but as you say there are not many. I was a former adqual mine clearance diver and engineer. But a lot of my shipmates did do commercial diving, working on oil rigs, welding pipelines in the construction industry. And some even went sat diving. Hope it helps.

[danielmoriarty]

Very informative and spot on along with so much more, I was a commercial diver on the Big Dig Boston central artery tunnel project along with the deer Island out fall tunnel, never imagined that I would drive a souped up hum vee 9 miles out in a pipe under Boston Harbor breathing mixed gas in a dry oxygen less environment when I started, so yeah it's a great job and your only as good as your last job

[jamesmancusi]

I was researching entering the field at the age of 23 - until a man I know, who was on the board of Exxon Mobile talked me out of it. I've recently retired from the safety of the medical industry and couldn't be happier about that decision.

[jasonwalker]

Went through the Ocean Corporation in Houston Texas, Had a job before I graduated as did several other people in my class.They said only 10 percent would still be in the industry after graduation and found that to be true. If you're claustrophobic, or can't handle the cold, vthis job isn't for you.I lasted 5 yrs and still do the odd jobs every once in a while.still love it and the people I worked with.

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[maxmackinlay]

Diving is the process of getting to the job site.

[dharmapunk]

Love that the commercial divers exist thanks for all the hard work and nasty stuff you lot deal with. Not for me, nope. I don't have the stamina. It's good to know what one's limits are.

[jennahn]

My boyfriend is a commercial diver and studied in SA. The things he’s told me are crazy! Such hard work, definitely not a job for everyone 🙈

[dfn]

I had to give up commercial diving not log after my son was born, he is now at University and I still miss it almost every day. Maybe it's just nostalgia and I'm forgetting the some of the crap civils jobs (working in-shore, canals, rivers, sh!t tanks etc.), or the mind-numbing boredom of some of the off-shore jobs (like on a pipe-laying barge), but I did love commercial diving.

It is expensive, especially if you do the saturation course, and it can be really difficult to get a start, but with perseverance, a bit of luck and a willingness to travel anywhere should see you through. I've gone months without a call and had up to 6 calls a day, so swings and roundabouts.

Just as a caution - getting your tickets (expensive), and getting a job (can take time and are usually short-term), are only part of the story. Be honest with yourself and make sure that diving is for you, even after paying the course fees, the number of new divers I have seen come out of the water with sheer terror on their faces (never to return to diving), because they were in a position that the dive schools hadn't prepared them for, was frightening.

However, if you do like it, in my opinion, it's the most awesome job on the planet.

[ANONYMOUSNINES]

Just took a tour to start commercial diving school! I’m very excited!

[TheKnudie]

It's true that you have to trust your team topside, however you have to be able to adapt to things on the fly and be able to overcome to get the job done. It's a pretty volatile job and the end goal is to get the job done. It's very competitive in that way because if something comes up and you couldn't complete the job and they send the next diver and he manages it you've just given him favor over you. Also divers have a love hate relationship with engineers. No matter how many schematics and briefs you've seen and been through something always seems to be different once you're underwater. For those who want to be commercial divers the best skills to have as a beginner in the water is to be directionally aware even in zero vis and be able to not drop anything. Oh and try not to get tangled up in your umbilical or get it fouled up.

[wksjunior]

Everything is true.... But you forgot the fact that everything is heavy in commercial dive.... Job placement is hard, but if you make your name, you will be happy!!
Just remember.... diver hire diver!!