Commercial Diving anyone?

[unimackpass]

Our vessel is 4way anchored in upper Cook Inlet next to a drilling rig for a commercial dive job. We have 8 divers on board and a decompression chamber. Also a bunch of high tech gear with a super geek sharing the wheelhouse with me. The water is only 120' deep but the current runs hard and the visibility is like being in a milkshake, chocolate milkshake.
Watching these guys go over the side makes me nervous. They have their own fraternity/subculture, kind of like crab fishing.
Dudes are focused andstay in shape lifting weights and doing yoga type of stretching.
They can only dive 3 times 45min a day because of heavy currents so the job could go till the middle of august plus. Long time on a vessel but we do have a professional cook that is really good.



This is from a different job/boat, don't know who took it but it shows how silty the water is.

 

[MaureenCretis]

Pays well, because you’re probably going to die.

 

[SFMMA]

Hard pass.

 

[punky brewster]

Cool

 

[Jkillah]

Would be a cool job if you didn't die. Job would be less good if you died.

 

[TribalDrumz]

Deadliest Snatch

 

[ralphc1]

One of my friend's sons joined the Navy to be an underwater welder. He completed the course then found out they didn't have any jobs and got downsized out. He got a job on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico shortly before the Deepwater Horizon blowout shut everything down. He ended up taking a job on land.

 

[unimackpass]

One of my friend's sons joined the Navy to be an underwater welder. He completed the course then found out they didn't have any jobs and got downsized out. He got a job on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico shortly before the Deepwater Horizon blowout shut everything down. He ended up taking a job on land.

A guy can plan well and unforeseen things can happen. Planing and being flexible seems to be the only realistic approach to just about anything .
These guys seem to be working quite a bit and are making good money.
Just hope they plan well and don't do dumb shite stuff like buy new trucks and crap.

 

[unimackpass]

Pays well, because you’re probably going to die.

It is a risky job, the long term effects of dealing with pressure chambers ect. seem to be one of the big concerns.
I've done a fair amount of recreation diving and wouldn't mind doing some shallow water work with underwater welding but forget the pressure chamber stuff.

 

[mb23100]

I had a friend who went to school for it after high school. He came back saying he almost died twice in training and said fuck this shit and quit

 

[Scerpi]

Underwater Divers are another breed. There's way I could fucking do it. I have to hire them from time to time here and the water here is silty brown from the Trinity River.

Zero visibility... My imagination would run wild and I'd freak out. nope, nope, nope....

 

[ToxicShocker]

One of my friend's sons joined the Navy to be an underwater welder. He completed the course then found out they didn't have any jobs and got downsized out. He got a job on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico shortly before the Deepwater Horizon blowout shut everything down. He ended up taking a job on land.

Still wears his flippers though, wierd

 

[ralphc1]

A guy can plan well and unforeseen things can happen. Planing and being flexible seems to be the only realistic approach to just about anything .
These guys seem to be working quite a bit and are making good money.
Just hope they plan well and don't do dumb shite stuff like buy new trucks and crap.

That was his problem. He had bought a new truck and had to make payments.

 

[ziggs]

tough industry...really hard to find a niche and theres not that much work.you really need to be lucky.

lots of egomaniacs, alphas and weirdos in the commercial world.

rec diving has more hot chicks and dudes w man buns taking tourists to look at the pretty fishes. its the same as being a surf or ski bum as you make peanuts compared to commercial

 

[unimackpass]

That was his problem. He had bought a new truck and had to make payments.

It's a pattern in certain industries. Oil fields and commercial fishing are the type of industry that can set young people up for the instant feeling of success that the credit industry will hook them with.

Banks will give North slope workers that feel the good times will never end loans for big money toys that have no future value.
At the same time I've seen some young guys be smart and pay off houses.

 

[unimackpass]

tough industry...really hard to find a niche and theres not that much work.you really need to be lucky.

lots of egomaniacs, alphas and weirdos in the commercial world.

rec diving has more hot chicks and dudes w man buns taking tourists to look at the pretty fishes. its the same as being a surf or ski bum as you make peanuts compared to commercial

It does draw a interesting group. One thing is it's always encouraging to be around people that want to and make things happen. We are chartered to help them so we all work together on various problems and they volunteer to help out on the boat.
To many people want something for nothing and do little as possible, "that's not my job". These dudes like to work, some alpha stuff isn't all bad.
None of them seem to like the socialist rout, more the self sufficiency mind set.

 

[MadSquabbles500]

Pays well, because you’re probably going to die.

Why is that the Bends?

 

[MadSquabbles500]

I had a friend who went to school for it after high school. He came back saying he almost died twice in training and said fuck this shit and quit

What is so tough about it? I have been diving before. Is it that they keep going up and down, up and down, which I am told is not good for your body.

 

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[mb23100]

What is so tough about it? I have been diving before. Is it that they keep going up and down, up and down, which I am told is not good for your body.

It's completely different than recreational diving. They go WAY deeper. I can't remember exactly what happened to him but I remember him saying "I almost died twice and said fuck this shit"