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hi ive just become a commercial diver, i have mechanical/engineering background and am looking for offshore diving work. could anyone suggest some company's i could send my CV out too?
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Permalink Reply by Lisa Iversen on
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Toby's right cdiver.net is a great place to look for companies that are hiring, post your resume and CV. My son got a job with CDive, out of Houma, LA (Louisiana.) The cdiver directory will have a ton of companies, or you can try The Association of Diving Contractors International. This is not a union, but an association of dive companies, divers, etc. The URL address is: http://www.adc-int.org.bod.htm. In the states, the area around the Gulf of Mexico has many dive companies.
Good luck.
Lisa, a diver's Mom
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Permalink Reply by Ian Barry Farrow on
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thank you, ive just got my cswip 3.1u underwater inspector results in and passed so very happy. would be great to get to know as many people as possable in the diving world. thank you for replying!
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Permalink Reply by stuart anderson on
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Where in the world do you want to work? there's a LOT of companies out there..!
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for the first couple of years im not really fussed to be fair, just need to get my hours up.... salvage really intrests me but in the futcher i would like to get in to saturation and become a hyperbaric welder.... i plan next year to do my diver medic so i will go where ever gets me to where i aim to be. what kinda diving do you do?
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I'm in Sat now, but I did plenty of inshore stuff before that. The only advice I'd give really is not to limit your options- work is work, and for the first few years, if you're earning money and getting experience, that's good enough to be going on with.
Salvage might be exiting, and sometimes interesting, but you have to be a jack of all trades, and it is certainly not a regular job. Smit and Titan seem to be the big names there, but like I say, it won't be easy to get into out of school, and people do tend to die fairly easily in the Salvage game...
Hyperbaric welder, in the North sea anyways, is not that easy to get into (by no means impossible, though) the guys that do that, have generally been surface welders for a long time, and most of the co's that do it, mainly Acergy, and SS7 have experienced welders sitting on contract. as far as I know,theres been no Hyperbaric weld codings in the Hyperbaric centre in Aberdeen this year (apart from a NEPSYS coding) which gives you an idea of how much work there is out there. For the sake of the weld bonus, I'd say it's not worth it, as construction or inspection gets a lot more work.
look on this site, and longstreath's one for diving companies. Also google IMCA and look up the directory of Diving companies.
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Permalink Reply by Toby Dodd on
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ian, don't know what country you'll want or need to work in, but here's a link to more companies around the world. http://www.longstreath.com/diving_companies.php?caID=1
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Permalink Reply by Bill Gardner on
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Welcome to the world of professional diving as an independant contractor. Diving jobs; There are maybe 2500-3000 active diving jobs world-wide. About 5000 divers and 20+ dive schools world-wide churning out divers every year that hang about until about 50% to 70% give up and look for another career. . When I was hiring I wanted the most bang for my $, so I looked for experience, the assumption is- everybody can dive, so what else can you do? ancillary skills/certifications applicable, ambition, and an earnest desire to achieve=work ethic. What do you know about the field- offshore/inland , domestic/international? Assuming your desire is offshore-what do you know about executing the jobs at hand, pipelay, construction, demobilization, demolition, etc etc. Do you have a working understanding of process and nomenclature? With your mechanical/engineering background, naturally you've already done all the research to put yourself ahead of any other newby candidate. So now you're going to go to the GOM and hand your resume to every active diving company, find and charm a contact, ( thru' your research) tracked down, and in an organized way, campaign for a job. While doing this you will join every placement service you find on the internet, there are alot and always free..If your thinking international, the internet is very handy for tracking offshore work by international contractors, how much, and where- through trade journals and magazines. Again I stress -What can you bring to the table to appeal to an employer? other than knowing how to dive. I hope there may be some wisdom in this rant you can use to your benefit-#1 research #2 I can give you address's of diving companies-just as easy for you to look 'em up on the internet (lots of m on longstreath country by country). Persistance & success to you, Bill (Sunday morning somethin to do)
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