Our SchoolAre you someone who loves adventure, the water, and working with your hands? If so, commercial diving might be the perfect career for you! Commercial divers work beneath the surface of the water to perform tasks like underwater construction, welding, inspections, and repairs. It’s not just a job – it’s an exciting opportunity to travel, […]
Exploring Saturation Diving with International Diver Jadon Anderson The deeper we go underwater, the longer it takes for the gases in our bodies to safely decompress – return to normal pressure – as we approach the surface. In fact, it takes one day per 100 ft of depth, plus one, to decompress without experiencing the […]
Ah, crap. In the HAZMAT world, commercial divers use this phrase quite literally. HAZMAT stands for “Hazardous Materials, and it comes in all forms of potentially harmful substances for commercial divers. Some are corrosive chemicals like virgin sulfuric acid, others are radioactive like the water contained in large nuclear reactor turbines. Still others contain lethal […]
Commercial diving takes our human bodies to pretty extreme places and situations – and then packs on an hour or two of challenging physical work. One of these extreme spaces is the hush-hush world of nuclear diving. Nuclear power reactors generate electrical energy with steam from heating large tanks of water via atomic fission. Commercial […]
What do Inland Divers Do? When a bridge, dam, pier, hydroelectric plant, shipyard or underwater cabling has to be repaired or maintained, a water tank needs cleaning, or you need to haul a gruesome corpse from the bottom of a lake, who you gonna call? Inland divers! The USA is covered in rivers and lakes […]
Work Hard Offshore, Play Hard Onshore We know that love is what makes the world go round, but it’s oil that makes us go around the world. Up to 300 miles off the coastline of the gulf of Mexico, there are over 5,000 men and women who work the thousands of jobs that the productive […]