Commercial Diving Training

[taylor]

Which course is prefered by employers if your interested in commercial diving.

A: Surface Supplied Diver (css) - PROFESSIONAL DIVING ACADEMY.
B: Standard Career Package - THE UNDERWATER CENTRE.
C: Construction Career Package - THE UNDERWATER CENTRE.

Dive into Nature and Dive Safe.

[Dangerous Dan]

The advice I have had before is just do the minimum:

HSE Part 4(Scuba) and Part 3 (Surface Supply), then most of the training will come from on the job.

Why not email some companies and ask them??

Dan

[A. Berk]

Originally Posted by taylor

Which course is prefered by employers if your interested in commercial diving.

A: Surface Supplied Diver (css) - PROFESSIONAL DIVING ACADEMY.
B: Standard Career Package - THE UNDERWATER CENTRE.
C: Construction Career Package - THE UNDERWATER CENTRE.

As someone who employs divers in offshore 'construction' I would like to know how effective the U/W Centre's package is and what they are supposed to be teaching, as all of the new divers that we see offshore know nothing about construction so we train on the job.

I have advised people to take the cheapest route to full HSE 'offshore' air diver - what Dangerous Dan has stated - Pt 3 - will NOT get you offshore - you will be a course short and destined to work in civil engineering only. You need Pt 1 and Offshore Sea-Survival and HUET (Helicopter Underwater Escape Training).

There is no shortage of advice on this site about 'commie' diving but most of it isn't worth the price of the electricity used, however the above comes to you from a working OCM (Offshore Construction Manager) who is onboard a diving vessel at this very moment - your call.

Good luck with whatever you do.

[Dangerous Dan]

1. I'm not sure if he wants to go offshore?

2. I thought it was rare if not impossible to get offshore work without civils experience?

Cheers,

PS. This is only what I have heard, I don't actually have experience in the sector but I am Part 4 and have looked at training to a higher level

Dan

[A. Berk]

D Dan, take a look at the post about 'Skills shortages' and you'll see what I have been trying to do since joining this community 9 months back - namely; "To help young guys get into an industry that has (as you rightly stated) been traditionally mega-hard to break-in to."

And although I took heaps of flack and was called a liar and charged with pocketing cash (I don't know how that was supposed to work) at the expense of others, you will see from the article in Offshore Shipping Online that I was ahead of the game way back last summer. Though I can hardly call myself a prophet as we in this business have seen this manpower shortage coming for a couple of years - we just didn't bank on hurricane Katrina wiping-out most of the Gulf of Mexico!

[Okeanos]

As a matter of interest (I am too old to consider a change of lifestyle) what does a pt4 enable you to do?

[A. Berk]

Unless the goverment have changed it all again the order is;

Pt 4 - commercial scuba - fish-farming, m/biology, cameraman, kitten drowner etc.

Pt 3 - inland/inshore (harbours etc) surface supplied air diving, using various helmets, power tools and vibrators

Pt 2 - we'll come back to this - it's a government thing!

Pt 1 - full 'offshore' air diver using wet-bells and all tools etc and holding a 008 cert (licenced to get rat-arsed in Dubai)

Pt 2 - back again... saturation diver - the real deal - able to self-induce a coma at great depth , cannot be woken without cattle prod!

[joseph]

hi A. Berk i am newly qualified part 1 commie and have very little experience on the construction side, i am moving to Thailand in April and would appreciate any advice you could give me as to working offshore. i qualified from Dunoon in December and have only been able to find a few weeks work doing civils.

[Okeanos]

Originally Posted by A. Berk

Unless the goverment have changed it all again the order is;

Pt 4 - commercial scuba - fish-farming, m/biology, cameraman, kitten drowner etc.

Thanks for that, I think Pt4 would be a laugh

[A. Berk]

Originally Posted by Okeanos

Thanks for that, I think Pt4 would be a laugh

Yeah, its a real hoot when they throw 12 kittens at you at the same time - just grab as many as you can and jam a few under your arms before descent!