Some of my mates are away at the minute ,,,, but we have been doing a ' round the houses ' e:mail so everyone can put together whats it's like in the industry. it will take a bit of time , but will be worth it .
The one of the Mods here can stick it as a first post.
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| Originally Posted by JSmilk Hi Iam currently a PADI Divemaster, i love diving but feel there is no money to be made in teaching. I know this is a very general post but what opportunities are there in commercial diving ? |
All depends what you mean by OPPORTUNITIES ?
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| Originally Posted by JSmilk what different types of work are there, whats the pay like?, how much does it cost to train? |
Jobs basically anything that needs doing underwater, or shallow water stand up depths.
Pay = Shite....... as a baby diver, your looking at £ 45 - 50 a 12 hour day. Then it will rise to around £ 90 if ya lucky.
Costs upwards of £ 5.000
For the first few years after you are ticketed,ypu have to take whatever jobs you can get on, pump out loads of CV's and get your name spread about.
Then it's sat on ya butt for days on end waiting for the phone to ring.
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| Originally Posted by JSmilk Also would appreciate people opinions on commercial diving, what sort of work do you do and do you enjoy it? |
I'm lucky , have done all sorts ....
Now do callouts doing rope off prop jobs, bits and pieces in salvage, odd NDT'ing........... do i enjoy it ? ermmm i did do.
My advice ,,,,, get a RoV pilots tickets..... why ?
in 10 years time there will be about 100 divers ,,, the RoV is taking dive work off us ,,,
You can't bend a RoV.
RoV's don't have 3 hour T breaks.
RoV's can stay down a lot longer.
They don't argue back.
the list is long.