saturation diver...

[A. Berk]

No you don't 'need' civils Dan - though civils may be your 1st oppurtunity of work after your course and ANY work offered has to be taken cos it starts recouping that course money. However, if you have a Pt1 then you REALLY must strive to use that ticket - get in a civils job if its there but keep pestering the offshore companies - thats where you need to be. As things are now - 1 year airdiving then fcuk-off to Marseilles or Tasmania for your sat ticket. I'm not saying that such a fast-track is right but it does happen - I've seen it in the last few months. I was ex-RN and two/three years an air diver in the NSea before doing the sat course May '79 so had a several hundred working dives logged but such a route would be rare now.

[Sandman]

You could always just watch SAT divers at work on the interweb.



Or if you actually wanted to become a SAT diver and spend up to 28 days living in a big tin can with maybe 12 other like minded chaps you will need the following.

Part I H.S.E. or "surface supplied air diver top up HSE certificate + tools
assessment"
Diver with one year of professional experience, with a range of experience 50 hours (bottom time working as a Part I diver with 10
hours greater than 20 m and 6 hours greater than 30 m),
Diving medical fitness,
First Aid or Diver Medic Certificate.

And about £12,000 or €12.500 depending on where you want to train. The current waiting list for spaces is over 12 months long and a few people have been bumped off courses for trying to blag the hours and experience needed. Which you would never get working in civils.

Cheers

Simon

[The complete goggler]

Originally Posted by Digger

It used to be one of those jobs where guys who didn't have a lot of O levels could earn a lot of money and drive fast cars, so was glamorised a bit. Now people can see what it's really like, and it ain't all that glamorous.

Digger, you have a stereotypical view of offshore life and sat diving which is quite wrong. This game was never glamorous, just bloody hard work for us that have made a career out of it. And, many of those guys are extremely intelligent with plenty of O & A levels, degree's, and technical expertise. Personally, I bailed-out of Law because I wanted more job satisfaction, more travel and - fast cars!