My dream job is saturation diving. I'll be attentending CDA next year. I can see 200+ in sat diving. Highly unlikely in offshore. But if I can make up to 80-100 as a commercial diver. That's enough to put my mother in a big house and live a good life.
You'll make 50k-60k inland, offshore 80k-100k gone 8 months out of the year, and saturation is high risk so it pays about 150k, but the first time those ear drums pop you'll regret life.
Also, keep in mind. In order to become a saturation diver, you have to spend a few years as a tender offshore, then become a diver for a few years, and only if the sat guys like you a lot and you’re good at your job, then you’ll have a chance to become sat. Most people don’t make it past the tender phase. It’s a single man’s game. Spending most of your time away from home.
In 2006 in Port of Los Angeles, I made $92.00/hr working as a Journeyman Piledriver/Diver. Pumping concrete, wrapping pier pilings, and stacking 3&1 bags. It sucked compared to salvage diving or oilfield (1-year). In 2007 I made $65.00/hr salvaging the Sea Witch across from Baltimore Harbor (6 months). I also remember making $9.00/hr when I started in the Louisiana GOM Oilfield in 2001. I freelanced a lot, and the best I ever did in a year was 125K. Work was gig-based and there were frequent breaks (sometimes long breaks). Still, it was a cool journey that changed my life. I’m sure that experiences vary greatly.
@@Diogosantoscanal It’s dangerous work and I lost a few friends to accidents. It’s sometimes hard to find work after commercial diving school. School is expensive in the US, but you need to be certified to get hired. IMCA certification is best for international work, ADCI will do for domestic work. It’s a hard life like I said. It works best if you find a place that will hire you and then go to commercial diving school.
90% of us states don't require any certs.... Go do construction for about 3 years, Okay then go to a cheap Scuba school where you learn about the medical do's and dont's. Good job you can now be a commercial diver. It's just construction, but under water.
£30,000-60,000 after taxes UK is a socialist shithole (like most blue states) so everybody has to suffer equally. Saudi Arabia will get you a 5 year contract with 6 weeks on and 6 weeks off paying you $140,000 per annum (but technically it's 6 months work and 6 months rest per year plus untaxed if you're a UK citizen because you are tax exempt if you don't reside in UK longer than 6 months. That's good money, especially when the license and training for UK's HSE gold standard of international commercial diving costs £11,500 for 2 month course including accommodation and food in North-West UK (Scotland). And a typical house is around 600,000 in London you're set to have a nice family with a 5 year contract
Real answer to this video is if you work sat jobs, you will see that money, but inland divers have to tell you otherwise because they aren't on those jobs.
Caleb Tieman Everyone I’ve spoken to has told me that most go offshore before working inland, any truth to that? I’ll be attending DIT in Seattle next month
Anybody who's ever worked for an oil company knows the high dollar claims are BS. Divers, about the same. 20-40$ an hour depending on if you factor over-time, equipment rental, taxes, off time (inland vs gomer vary SIGNIFICANTLY from each other), sat, surface, tender, depth pay....god damn....are we seeing a pattern? There's variability is the point. NO body makes 300k a year as a diver. some make over 100k. most make about 50k (mean,median,mode anyone?). But for someone's god's sake, can we dispense with the myth of high dollar for medium/low skill already?! Diver's aren't doctors. K?! That crap was made up by jackass salesmen. You make about as much as any working stiff with some kind of certificate. end of story. The REAL point is, where else can you do something even remotely interesting or exciting and get PAID for it? THAT is the real difference IMO.
Actually I know a company that pays $174k per year full company aid benefits for you and your dependents housing paid 1 meal a day for oversea contract. This is to start plus bonus incentives.
@The Salty Diver. Hey man, I enjoyed the fact you called that shit out. There's way to much gloss and false information out there that leads people astray. Here's some more info for the commenting community if they're interested. I don't know how it is in the states, but if you work in sat internationally, for instance in the North sea or offshore in Australia, the rates are big due to the workforce being unionized. Of course, you need to be a citizen or resident of these countries, have regular rotations with a major company and a union membership, but I do know guys who have hit the $3000AUD / £1400pound a day mark working in those sectors. On the other hand I work in Asia, Middle east and sometimes the Indian sectors and we get day rates anywhere between $800-$1300 per day in the bin. Example: If you get 4 sat runs (4x 28days) a year with a high average of $1100usd per day, that gives you $123,200. Plus each swing you might do and extra 2 weeks on deck before getting in the bin. Lets say deck rate is $500USD a day. That's an additional $28,000USD per year bringing your yearly total to $151,200 before tax. The rates represent the risk, training and experience needed to get there. Then to put in some perspective on this shiny turd, throw in the cost of annual / bi-annual certificate renewals, the cost & time it takes you to go do the continuous training unpaid, no benefits, no retirement fund, no government support if work dries up. Continually having to chase work. No guarantees of any kind! 6 months a year or more away from friends and family, actually away from civilization in general. It's not easy and you have to really want to do it to succeed.
Wow what a joke!!! I'm commenting on my girlfriend's profile. I'm a gulf diver and went to CDA back in 2011. I wasn't surprised CDA had something to do with this! Glad you took the time to expose this Matt guy!
@@nateclift2294 I'm currently in my last month at cda at the deep water training center. The only plus side I can say are the instructors. But you will see through the bs as after you start. The location in jax florida is trashy and sketchy. Parking is a mile away and the office people dont care about the students. Only the instructors do. The "upstairs" just wants that 35k
They don't, sat divers are well paid and there is a reason for that. Pipeliners don't have to breathe in helium and oxygen and have a bland taste in the food they eat. Pipeliners don't have to spend a month in an environment similar to space, they don't have to work around the clock in rotation shifts and start working at 2 in the morning. Pipeliners don't have to wear secondary life support systems and hot water suits. They don't have to use buoyancy aids like air hose operated balloons to lift 200lb bolts and nuts. Pipeliners don't have to drag a 100ft umbilical cord around and try not to get tangled, and they don't have to decompress for days and deal with the boredom that it entails before they can leave. They are paid up to $1,400 a day for a slew of reasons. I hope this clears things up for you.
So how much would an experienced sat diver make? Someone that I know spent a year on a pipeline working as a pipe welder/fitter and cane back with 250K
@@RackTheMilesWelding if you can id like to keep in touch so I can learn more info on this job I’m hoping on becoming one after I graduate this year in HS then go to commercial diving school and work my way up after I complete the course.
The video says, “Underwater welders usually have limited education...”. It’s laughable because it’s factual false. 😂 Sure, some people who get into occupational diving fields don’t go beyond high school, however most people I know, including myself, have at least a bachelors. Furthermore, diving by itself requires education in physics, biology, chemistry, math, a practical understanding of environmental and earth sciences, some engineering, psychology, leadership and leadership development, and much, much more as it relates to the activity of diving. To make a bold claim that divers are uneducated, unintelligent idiots, is factually false. Even the simple act of YOU picking apart the clear logical fallacies throughout this video-and even identifying them-demonstrates that.
No way pipe liners make $250k they make a lot but not that much. 150k would be a good year pipeliners get laid off and have to chase work a lot just like divers
@@petepetepumkineat6308 they do indeed. I worked as a welding assistant in Moab Utah 2014-2015 and the welders were independent contractors all charging $80+ an hour plus expenses. They even told me that they've made more money in other parts of the US.
If by independent contractors, you mean working on contract work, there is the key. They might make $80/hr plus expenses through the course of the contract, but what happens when the contract is over? I can't be certain, because I've never been out to the gulf, but I'm reasonably sure that divers out there arent making x-ray quality welds. I've seen some pretty nice beads underwater, but I haven't ever heard of anyone going down to inspect them.
@@TheSaltyDiver that makes sense. I've worked mostly in the oilfield my whole life but have been looking into oilfield dive work lately. People gotta atleast be making $100k diving in the gulf of Mexico for rigs and platform demo right? I know plenty of offshore workers but have yet to meet a diver who's worked offshore to ask about their career.
Sure, but those guys are are special breed of human...they go waaaaay tooo deeeeeeep!!!! And stay down for so long, and stay pressurized under several atmospheres for months at a time, and they cant leave the compression chamber, except to go to the ocean floor for work, and they gotta breath heliox....and soooo much that can go wrong....and in total darkness while on the job....IMO Sat divers should make like a mill a year or more...Is the pay really worth it at 300k? I mean you could just become a politician instead, and make nearly that much just to accomplish absolutely nothing....
Of course, that website is just stupid. First off, there is a huge range in commercial diving jobs. Most of the people that fall for that BS do not even know what mixed gas diving is. Maybe one percent know what saturation diving is. Almost nobody has ever heard of diving in the cooling water of a nuclear reactor. Then there is my absolute favorite diving in a giant tank of raw sewage. I would guess that the divers with the highest income are the saturation drivers that have 20 plus years experience and work for a very busy service company. Then they have a good side job for their shore time. They do it the same way firemen make more money by working 24 hours and having a side job during the next 48.
So this journalist now makes a site that sells your info... with a 3.9 gpa should he know this story will break?? Haha sounds like you're a better journalist than Matt! Keep it up Salty!
When you work 4 weeks - 7 days a week for a minimum of 12 hours a day, don't spend money on grub and lodging. you have a nice paycheck. I think if some Land Lubber would do that, he would make just as much. In Belgium, when on your first job, they'll baptize you as soon as possible. no sitting around for Years??? We (Dutch/Norwegian/Belgian) all work with a rotation system. You poor Americans...
Yes. My best friend went there and he says it was solid. They also charge much less than other schools. You did a solid. Have fun, enjoy Charleston! That place is awesome!
I really enjoy your videos and find it very informative. I got two questions for you Mr "The Salty" . Can you make more money being a diver if you have your Non Destructive Testing tickets ? Is there alot of work with Non Destrutive Testing + Diving?
I know the question wasn’t for me, but I’ll answer. NDT was one of three “specialties” when I went to the College of Oceaneering in 2000. NDT, wet welding, and DMT (diver medic). A lot of people that graduate dive school with NDT end up doing land-based NDT work. In other words, they never become divers. It was a good speciality to have when the offshore market was in a slump. Back to your original question, “can you make more money being a diver with NDT?” The answer is “sometimes”. Basically, a commercial diver is only as employable as his tool knowledge will allow. I never had an NDT cert, but performed NDT work offshore. I never had a wet welding cert but I did a lot of wet welding. Supervisors want you to be comfortable operating the hyperbaric chamber for surface decompression. Diver medics get a lot of chamber time in school and typically care more about their teammates. I would pick a red hat tender/DMT over any other “specialty. There’s another reason: Tenders usually do the grunt work until they prove themselves anyway. Offshore Tenders work minimum 12hr day or night shifts. Divers who have broke-out are on dive rotation. Some customers require at least one DMT per shift. The easiest way to fill this requirement is to hire a few tender/DMT’s. When I was a first year Tender at STOLT Offshore, I was selected to fill a diver slot for a 18 month job with Chevron. It’s still one of the best jobs of my career. We were burning everyday, cutting out mono-pile casings 15’ below the mud-line. Penetration dives and platform decommissioning. The only reason I got that job was because I was a certified DMT and passed a blackout underwater burning test.
Commercial diving sucks , especially working for somebody else , like Cal Dive , Oceaneering , Torsh , Horizon....The only way you could make good money is if you open up your own business , it doesn't have to be fuck'en commercial diving ....I rather sell ice cream then work as a stupid ass commercial diving job .
you are WAY under paid. Go into business for yourself. You wont get rich but you wont have to work much either. I do ok with 2 side hussles...one of them diving. I charge 50 to jump in and 200 an hour. Most week I only work 2 or 3 hours.
@Sean Briones A sharp knife is all I use most days, however sometimes a flathead screwdriver, hammer, or scraper is needed. I dont know how this could transate out west. Here there are spots that would be impossible to drown, you could literally swing from trap bouy to trap bouy from one bay to the next. Its thinned out over the years a bit, but I dont think any place in the world has as many as we do here. In a place where pleasure boats are key, there are zincs that need changing. algea scrubbed below the water line, banacles needing to be scraped off. Also can learn to inspect and repair moorings. There is more than enough work under water if you know what people need, Go down and ask..." Hey, any boats down here need a diver? What kiind of things do they ask for in a diver?". How about gof courses? Those balls, even used are worth 50 cents or more. Pretty easy to collect 1000 balls in a day!
My dream job is saturation diving. I'll be attentending CDA next year. I can see 200+ in sat diving. Highly unlikely in offshore. But if I can make up to 80-100 as a commercial diver. That's enough to put my mother in a big house and live a good life.
Who in the world told you that lol
@@ddbentz12 it’s not inaccurate tho saturation divers make goodddd money
You'll make 50k-60k inland, offshore 80k-100k gone 8 months out of the year, and saturation is high risk so it pays about 150k, but the first time those ear drums pop you'll regret life.
Good luck, CDA just got shut down. Killing a bunch of kids and stealing money.
Also, keep in mind. In order to become a saturation diver, you have to spend a few years as a tender offshore, then become a diver for a few years, and only if the sat guys like you a lot and you’re good at your job, then you’ll have a chance to become sat. Most people don’t make it past the tender phase. It’s a single man’s game. Spending most of your time away from home.
In 2006 in Port of Los Angeles, I made $92.00/hr working as a Journeyman Piledriver/Diver. Pumping concrete, wrapping pier pilings, and stacking 3&1 bags. It sucked compared to salvage diving or oilfield (1-year). In 2007 I made $65.00/hr salvaging the Sea Witch across from Baltimore Harbor (6 months). I also remember making $9.00/hr when I started in the Louisiana GOM Oilfield in 2001. I freelanced a lot, and the best I ever did in a year was 125K. Work was gig-based and there were frequent breaks (sometimes long breaks). Still, it was a cool journey that changed my life. I’m sure that experiences vary greatly.
Vale a pena seguir esta carreira?
@@Diogosantoscanal Es una vida dura y solitaria. A veces el dinero es bueno.
@@pedromiguel3227 did it affect your health in anyway? How was it in terms of jobs in the start? Thank you!
@@Diogosantoscanal It’s dangerous work and I lost a few friends to accidents. It’s sometimes hard to find work after commercial diving school. School is expensive in the US, but you need to be certified to get hired. IMCA certification is best for international work, ADCI will do for domestic work. It’s a hard life like I said. It works best if you find a place that will hire you and then go to commercial diving school.
@@pedromiguel3227 Would you say going to commercial diving school is enough to look for a job? Or is it utopian to think so?
230k dollars a year working as a saturation diver in the North Sea, UK. I can see 300k a year possible. Maybe dubai area working in the same field...
how do you do it i’m 16 and trying to go into saturation where should i start
@@bonmoritz364 i think you gotta be 18.. but you can start getting scuba certifications & time underwater. start with openwater & work your way up.
90% of us states don't require any certs....
Go do construction for about 3 years, Okay then go to a cheap Scuba school where you learn about the medical do's and dont's.
Good job you can now be a commercial diver. It's just construction, but under water.
£30,000-60,000 after taxes UK is a socialist shithole (like most blue states) so everybody has to suffer equally. Saudi Arabia will get you a 5 year contract with 6 weeks on and 6 weeks off paying you $140,000 per annum (but technically it's 6 months work and 6 months rest per year plus untaxed if you're a UK citizen because you are tax exempt if you don't reside in UK longer than 6 months. That's good money, especially when the license and training for UK's HSE gold standard of international commercial diving costs £11,500 for 2 month course including accommodation and food in North-West UK (Scotland). And a typical house is around 600,000 in London you're set to have a nice family with a 5 year contract
🤣🤣🤣🤡@@alvingeroy3242
Real answer to this video is if you work sat jobs, you will see that money, but inland divers have to tell you otherwise because they aren't on those jobs.
Caleb Tieman Everyone I’ve spoken to has told me that most go offshore before working inland, any truth to that? I’ll be attending DIT in Seattle next month
@@Selkirk.pine.phantom how did it go?!
Saturation divers get paid that much. But it takes alot of work to get that job. Its what i want to do.
Anybody who's ever worked for an oil company knows the high dollar claims are BS. Divers, about the same. 20-40$ an hour depending on if you factor over-time, equipment rental, taxes, off time (inland vs gomer vary SIGNIFICANTLY from each other), sat, surface, tender, depth pay....god damn....are we seeing a pattern? There's variability is the point. NO body makes 300k a year as a diver. some make over 100k. most make about 50k (mean,median,mode anyone?). But for someone's god's sake, can we dispense with the myth of high dollar for medium/low skill already?! Diver's aren't doctors. K?! That crap was made up by jackass salesmen. You make about as much as any working stiff with some kind of certificate. end of story. The REAL point is, where else can you do something even remotely interesting or exciting and get PAID for it? THAT is the real difference IMO.
Hit the nail on the head with this one my dude.
Actually I know a company that pays $174k per year full company aid benefits for you and your dependents housing paid 1 meal a day for oversea contract. This is to start plus bonus incentives.
@@russellyajaira what company is this
Correction U.S divers don't. Uk Sat divers are in the ODIA agreed pay scales . Google it it's not BS
@@jonnytriton5111 google it? Cite the website.
Great video but your voice was pretty low during the video. Thank you for the information! - Random 19 year old with Dreamz
Same😂
Chase those dreams boys, I’m 22 chasing the dream hopefully gonna be attending school in January
@The Salty Diver. Hey man, I enjoyed the fact you called that shit out. There's way to much gloss and false information out there that leads people astray. Here's some more info for the commenting community if they're interested. I don't know how it is in the states, but if you work in sat internationally, for instance in the North sea or offshore in Australia, the rates are big due to the workforce being unionized. Of course, you need to be a citizen or resident of these countries, have regular rotations with a major company and a union membership, but I do know guys who have hit the $3000AUD /
£1400pound a day mark working in those sectors. On the other hand I work in Asia, Middle east and sometimes the Indian sectors and we get day rates anywhere between $800-$1300 per day in the bin. Example: If you get 4 sat runs (4x 28days) a year with a high average of $1100usd per day, that gives you $123,200. Plus each swing you might do and extra 2 weeks on deck before getting in the bin. Lets say deck rate is $500USD a day. That's an additional $28,000USD per year bringing your yearly total to $151,200 before tax. The rates represent the risk, training and experience needed to get there. Then to put in some perspective on this shiny turd, throw in the cost of annual / bi-annual certificate renewals, the cost & time it takes you to go do the continuous training unpaid, no benefits, no retirement fund, no government support if work dries up. Continually having to chase work. No guarantees of any kind! 6 months a year or more away from friends and family, actually away from civilization in general. It's not easy and you have to really want to do it to succeed.
Thank you for this information I truly appreciate it
Why is your voice so quiet?
Wow what a joke!!! I'm commenting on my girlfriend's profile. I'm a gulf diver and went to CDA back in 2011. I wasn't surprised CDA had something to do with this! Glad you took the time to expose this Matt guy!
I was thinking of going to CDA. Would you suggest not to?
@@nateclift2294 I'm currently in my last month at cda at the deep water training center. The only plus side I can say are the instructors. But you will see through the bs as after you start. The location in jax florida is trashy and sketchy. Parking is a mile away and the office people dont care about the students. Only the instructors do. The "upstairs" just wants that 35k
35k now? Its was 30 when I went through that was including staying in the barracks w/ meal plan
It’s about 38k now
How tf can a normal pipe welder earn more than sat divers? That doesn't make sense.
They don't, sat divers are well paid and there is a reason for that. Pipeliners don't have to breathe in helium and oxygen and have a bland taste in the food they eat. Pipeliners don't have to spend a month in an environment similar to space, they don't have to work around the clock in rotation shifts and start working at 2 in the morning. Pipeliners don't have to wear secondary life support systems and hot water suits. They don't have to use buoyancy aids like air hose operated balloons to lift 200lb bolts and nuts. Pipeliners don't have to drag a 100ft umbilical cord around and try not to get tangled, and they don't have to decompress for days and deal with the boredom that it entails before they can leave. They are paid up to $1,400 a day for a slew of reasons. I hope this clears things up for you.
So how much would an experienced sat diver make? Someone that I know spent a year on a pipeline working as a pipe welder/fitter and cane back with 250K
@@Bunkerian sat divers are at 250 to 530k. I have a friend who's uncle does it and hes living very well. Sorry for taking so long btw.
@@RackTheMilesWelding if you can id like to keep in touch so I can learn more info on this job I’m hoping on becoming one after I graduate this year in HS then go to commercial diving school and work my way up after I complete the course.
@@RackTheMilesWelding do u take a corse n become one or fo u have to build up to tht level
The video says, “Underwater welders usually have limited education...”. It’s laughable because it’s factual false. 😂 Sure, some people who get into occupational diving fields don’t go beyond high school, however most people I know, including myself, have at least a bachelors. Furthermore, diving by itself requires education in physics, biology, chemistry, math, a practical understanding of environmental and earth sciences, some engineering, psychology, leadership and leadership development, and much, much more as it relates to the activity of diving. To make a bold claim that divers are uneducated, unintelligent idiots, is factually false. Even the simple act of YOU picking apart the clear logical fallacies throughout this video-and even identifying them-demonstrates that.
You just have to be really good at holding your breath...
hahahaha 🤣 @@JustinTrudeau-up7jz
Topside pipeline welders usually make a quarter million, so why don't commercial divers in the oil field make more?
No way pipe liners make $250k they make a lot but not that much. 150k would be a good year pipeliners get laid off and have to chase work a lot just like divers
@@petepetepumkineat6308 they do indeed. I worked as a welding assistant in Moab Utah 2014-2015 and the welders were independent contractors all charging $80+ an hour plus expenses. They even told me that they've made more money in other parts of the US.
If by independent contractors, you mean working on contract work, there is the key. They might make $80/hr plus expenses through the course of the contract, but what happens when the contract is over? I can't be certain, because I've never been out to the gulf, but I'm reasonably sure that divers out there arent making x-ray quality welds. I've seen some pretty nice beads underwater, but I haven't ever heard of anyone going down to inspect them.
@@TheSaltyDiver that makes sense. I've worked mostly in the oilfield my whole life but have been looking into oilfield dive work lately. People gotta atleast be making $100k diving in the gulf of Mexico for rigs and platform demo right? I know plenty of offshore workers but have yet to meet a diver who's worked offshore to ask about their career.
@@elovaughnelwell8980 they don't make it through the first year normally. The ones who do, like it.
Do you do offshore or travel ? Thanks for the video I go to school in January
I’m going to school in Jan too. Which one are you going too?
@@Currituckduckman CDI in Goodyear AZ wbu?
Where Dustin go...?
@@Currituckduckman yeah Dustin where go ?
Saturation divers can make up to and more than $300,000
Sure, but those guys are are special breed of human...they go waaaaay tooo deeeeeeep!!!! And stay down for so long, and stay pressurized under several atmospheres for months at a time, and they cant leave the compression chamber, except to go to the ocean floor for work, and they gotta breath heliox....and soooo much that can go wrong....and in total darkness while on the job....IMO Sat divers should make like a mill a year or more...Is the pay really worth it at 300k? I mean you could just become a politician instead, and make nearly that much just to accomplish absolutely nothing....
Of course, that website is just stupid. First off, there is a huge range in commercial diving jobs. Most of the people that fall for that BS do not even know what mixed gas diving is. Maybe one percent know what saturation diving is. Almost nobody has ever heard of diving in the cooling water of a nuclear reactor. Then there is my absolute favorite diving in a giant tank of raw sewage.
I would guess that the divers with the highest income are the saturation drivers that have 20 plus years experience and work for a very busy service company. Then they have a good side job for their shore time. They do it the same way firemen make more money by working 24 hours and having a side job during the next 48.
Sir, im just 20 yr old. From india. I did my deploma in india. Can you help me for guiding me into a saturation diver.... pls
Akshay Prakashan You have to first get like 100+ diving hours and then take a saturation course.
Poor volume for the deaf diver.
What is the age limit to join this field
Basically 30, unless your particularly healthy
So this journalist now makes a site that sells your info... with a 3.9 gpa should he know this story will break?? Haha sounds like you're a better journalist than Matt! Keep it up Salty!
When you work 4 weeks - 7 days a week for a minimum of 12 hours a day, don't spend money on grub and lodging. you have a nice paycheck. I think if some Land Lubber would do that, he would make just as much. In Belgium, when on your first job, they'll baptize you as soon as possible. no sitting around for Years??? We (Dutch/Norwegian/Belgian) all work with a rotation system. You poor Americans...
I leave in August for the International Diving Institute in South Carolina, do you think this is a good choice for school?
Yes. My best friend went there and he says it was solid. They also charge much less than other schools. You did a solid. Have fun, enjoy Charleston! That place is awesome!
I'll be there September 4th, see you there, can't wait!
Cameron Wilburn I’ll also be there September 4th
@@gwarguts samh the hurrican will make us delay 1 week, I want to start!
@@cameronwilburn6830 Do you have a social media we can talk on. They said they were sending out an email but I didn't get shit from them.
Is there something wrong with CDA?
Nate Clift yes I went there it shouldn’t even be considered a school it’s a scam fest
Am certified from CDA , it's a good school but not the best and their price is higher comparing to other schools ..
@@m.a.r.k3136 does the school you attend where you got your certification matter to employers. And what school would be good
They have 5 deaths under their belt, drug over dose, suicide and the rest are training related. Thankfully they were forced to shut down.
I really enjoy your videos and find it very informative.
I got two questions for you Mr "The Salty" .
Can you make more money being a diver if you have your Non Destructive Testing tickets ?
Is there alot of work with Non Destrutive Testing + Diving?
Hmmm, I think it would depend on your certification level.most dive schools have NDT in the curriculum, so it unfortunately doesn't stand out much.
Possible.. it's a big field
I know the question wasn’t for me, but I’ll answer. NDT was one of three “specialties” when I went to the College of Oceaneering in 2000. NDT, wet welding, and DMT (diver medic). A lot of people that graduate dive school with NDT end up doing land-based NDT work. In other words, they never become divers. It was a good speciality to have when the offshore market was in a slump.
Back to your original question, “can you make more money being a diver with NDT?” The answer is “sometimes”. Basically, a commercial diver is only as employable as his tool knowledge will allow. I never had an NDT cert, but performed NDT work offshore. I never had a wet welding cert but I did a lot of wet welding.
Supervisors want you to be comfortable operating the hyperbaric chamber for surface decompression. Diver medics get a lot of chamber time in school and typically care more about their teammates. I would pick a red hat tender/DMT over any other “specialty.
There’s another reason: Tenders usually do the grunt work until they prove themselves anyway. Offshore Tenders work minimum 12hr day or night shifts. Divers who have broke-out are on dive rotation. Some customers require at least one DMT per shift. The easiest way to fill this requirement is to hire a few tender/DMT’s.
When I was a first year Tender at STOLT Offshore, I was selected to fill a diver slot for a 18 month job with Chevron. It’s still one of the best jobs of my career. We were burning everyday, cutting out mono-pile casings 15’ below the mud-line. Penetration dives and platform decommissioning. The only reason I got that job was because I was a certified DMT and passed a blackout underwater burning test.
@@pedromiguel3227 Appreciate the reply, full of great information :)
Divers get paid like shit. Your better off washing Cars. Being a diver beats you down mentally and physically
Commercial diving sucks , especially working for somebody else , like Cal Dive , Oceaneering , Torsh , Horizon....The only way you could make good money is if you open up your own business , it doesn't have to be fuck'en commercial diving ....I rather sell ice cream then work as a stupid ass commercial diving job .
Off shore saturation up to £200k. That is the very best, doubt you earn £300k
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you are WAY under paid. Go into business for yourself. You wont get rich but you wont have to work much either. I do ok with 2 side hussles...one of them diving. I charge 50 to jump in and 200 an hour. Most week I only work 2 or 3 hours.
@Sean Briones 95% of what I do is clean rope out of wheels. Lobster fishermen run over bouys often.
@Sean Briones A sharp knife is all I use most days, however sometimes a flathead screwdriver, hammer, or scraper is needed. I dont know how this could transate out west. Here there are spots that would be impossible to drown, you could literally swing from trap bouy to trap bouy from one bay to the next. Its thinned out over the years a bit, but I dont think any place in the world has as many as we do here. In a place where pleasure boats are key, there are zincs that need changing. algea scrubbed below the water line, banacles needing to be scraped off. Also can learn to inspect and repair moorings. There is more than enough work under water if you know what people need, Go down and ask..." Hey, any boats down here need a diver? What kiind of things do they ask for in a diver?". How about gof courses? Those balls, even used are worth 50 cents or more. Pretty easy to collect 1000 balls in a day!
Do you use scuba equipment?
And are you diving alone?
@@travelkylestyle yes
This is commercial diver.. it's not an easy job..but nothing is impossible
@@akshayprakashan5193 I don't own company for recruitment..
The best way is to search online and submit your CV.. good luck my friend
In Norway divers make prity god compere to the us.
@r2d23678 yes the offer course in english as well.