hey guys just moved out to california and just seeing if any other commercial divers/ underwater welders in here lol

 

Iam not a commercial diver but my buddy is.
He has worked all over the map and has told me some pretty unreal **** about his job. I dont think I could ever do it for a living.
He is from Hawaii but went to school in New Jersey somewhere ?

Good money but super dangerous !!

 

I am afraid of the ocean lol. To many movies about deep sea monsters and what not...

 

there are quite a few videos on youtube

 

thats cool where does he work at now? Yea thats a pretty good school up there. You will see and do some crazy crazy stuff I haven't had anything to bad happen yet thank god.

 

yea im just trying to see if anyone out in california is i don't know anyone here

 

do you work in the water or in those air chambers mainly?

 

in the water the chamber is for sat divers and decompression

 

whats a sat diver? I read an article on how they attach the chamber to the vessel, purge the water out leaving a "dry" compartment to weld in. Dont know the proper term for it

 

I always thought about this as a backup job... I scuba dive for fun and and picking up welding.

 

Saturation diver

You can read all about it... its really cool stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturation_diving

 

sorry yea thats what i ment but yea its really cool stuff

 

buddy of mine wanted to go to school for it here in NJ but decided it was to dangerous of a job

 

ohhh mannnn im the same way

 

yea you see some crazy stuff lol

 

If a sea creature comes at you, point your welder at it. I'm sure they'd stay away from the loud noise and bright lights tho.

 

well barracudas like it they you come over and watch you. my one buddy has a gorski its an all stainless steal hat and they like shiny stuff and it kept running into his hat lol

 

He works for a company called Seaward. They are contracted by the government so his job pays really well.
When he is here in Hawaii he cleans and maintains nuclear subs. He has also worked in the gulf and Guam repairing all kinds of equipment or doing salvage jobs.

Something about crawling into a 20 inch pipe and swimming a few hundred yards into it to do some inspecting just aint right !!
not to mention having to come back out the pipe backwards !!
No thanks

 

It's funny this post came up. I'm really interested in taking this up as a career. Are there really a lot of jobs available ? http://www.diversacademy.com/index.html thats the website for the school here in NJ

 

i its a really good school i hear i went to the commercial dive academy in jacksonville florida thats a really good school i liked it a lot because you dive in tanks only two times then in the trout river the rest of your time and there is no vis at all and its really good because when you go to work and have no vis wen your really working your use to it and aren't flipping out. Some people are fine in the tanks but we had a few in my class quit wen we did our first river dive and they couldn't see anything.

 

Was it hard finding work ? Is the pay:workload decent ? I read that you could work up to 10 hours straight. I'm a certified recreational diver, and I know that 10 hours underwater is definitely more tiring than 10 hours of work topside ! If the pay is good I don't mind working my *** off !

 

well a job is only hard if your lazy in school the instrctors are gonna help you get a job and if your not good underwater or lazy then your not gonna get a job its like a eally really big family i noticed and if you mess up one job your dirt. your always as good as your last dive and you dont work 10 hours under the water most is on topside and you do what ever you have to in the water when they want you in. the most i have ever been in was 8 hours and its not to bad when your working because your mind in on the job not the time.

 

A good friend of mine is going to school for underwater diving in Camden, pretty sick ****...