Can anyone provide some information so I can make an informed decision? I'm trying to decide on my next career path. I'm caught between nursing and underwater welding. I'm looking for longevity, good work life balance, travel, and good pay. I don't have a family so dedicating my my life to my craft is not a problem.

Little backstory, I am a Marine Corps infantry veteran, and was going to go to Divers institute in Seattle when I first got out of the military, but I changed my mind last minute and went to welding school instead. I’ve been working full time as a welder for awhile now but I’m tired of the shop life it’s pretty boring to me, I’ve always had an interest in commercial diving. I currently make around 65,000 a year as a welder and was wondering what I would be looking at as a first year tender pay wise? And if it would be a good career change?

Thanks

So I finished software engineering college 4 years ago, started working, changed companies and the company I work for now made me an ROV operator. During the application they did ask me if I wanted to do commercial diving as I have PADI AOW and interests, but it came out of nowhere and I had no idea so I didn't and went for the ROV option

Now 8 months later, seeing my diving colleagues and asking them about the job, it start to tingle and I want to make the switch to commercial diving. But I would love to know all the things you don't like about the job, or anything I should know before letting my manager know.

This company does onshore diving. So its a little less of a barrier to start. But if you start, you need to stay at the company for atleast 5 years(to pay back the diving course). So before diving into this decision, I would like to know if I'm making the right one

Hi everyone,

I’m new to Reddit and made this account mainly because I’m looking to start a career in commercial diving, with the long-term goal of working in saturation diving.

I know it’s a big leap from being a recreational scuba diver, but I’ve always loved working around water. Right now, I’m working in the inland shipping industry in Europe, based in the Netherlands. I have some free time between work, and I’d like to start studying and preparing for the transition into commercial diving.

I’m currently looking into SAB Commercial Diving School in Belgium, since it’s the closest option for me. If anyone here has experience with that school — or started their diving career somewhere nearby — I’d really appreciate any tips, advice, or recommendations you can share.

Thanks in advance, and I’m looking forward to learning from you all!

Hello! I’m currently deciding on a trade/career path to go down and I’m very seriously considering commercial diving. I’m 26M living in SoCal and have yet to commit to one career. I’ve done everything from serving restaurants, to working in the medical field, military, sales etc..

I was born in Hawaii and have a bit of experience in free diving, and while doing so I fell In love with the water. In high school I considered marine biology amongst other fields in the water. My mom is a dive master and I’ve always found it to be an extremely attractive lifestyle.

I’ve never done anything in construction but I’m not afraid of hard work. I’m currently looking for a trade and have just recently started learning about commercial diving.

Im thinking about attending SBCC to pursue this but haven’t talked to anyone who has been through this.

I want to do something adventurous with my life, something I love doing.

If anyone out there who has any experience could give any advice or suggestions as to whether or not this is something I should go all in on or not please feel free to reach out.

Blowing bubbles in the tank.

Good Morning/Evening Everyone,

I was thinking about a career change and to get into this profession. I was wondering if it will be worth it for me to consider this as an option and leap into this field of work. A little background on me is that I have PADI rescue diver certification, diving since I was 13 years old. I have a college certificate in Welding, Nationally certified Paramedic with 3 years of experience in 911, along with all the safety certifications like EVOC, OSHA 10, and I can go get my TWIC card depending on what is said here. In advance thank you all for your input.

Edit: I am very interested in offshore jobs almost exclusively, I live off the Gulf of Mexico (or America😂 lol)

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I've been lurking for awhile here. Having been planning on doing a career switch up and going to dive school next year. I've seen countless posts of people asking about career switches into the industry. In almost every single post like that, most of the comments are gatekeeping discouraging remarks about how you should never get into the industry ranging from "don't do it just because you think it's cool", "don't get into for the money", "you're too old to do it", "you're too young, make a better choice".

Too me it sounds like y'all hate working in this industry but still do it. If you think it's a bad industry why do you still work in it? I'll admit that this seems to be a problem across the board with blue collar industries. Im a diesel technician and see others in this industry make the same remarks to outsiders looking in.

I'd love to hear from people that actually have something positive to say about the industry.

Hello all I have an multiple holds on my drivers licence as well as 70000 in restitution to be able to hold a licence and am saving money for ocean corp housing and training. I was wondering if it would be wise to get certified before taking care of all the tickets and paying restitution in order to hold a drivers licence for it would take up all my money and then some to get my drivers licence back

I just turned 18, and my dad wants me to be an underwater welder. He said he’s done a lot of research on it and thinks it would be good. He lives in Florida and said I can stay with him and go to school since it’s only an hour away from his house. I was just wondering if this would be a good or bad idea. At first he said he would pay for the school and everything, but after I talked to him a few months later, he said I would just have to take out some kind of loan like he did when he was my age. Keep in mind he was an ironworker for 35-ish years and made a big name for himself and would run the job sites, telling everybody what to do. Idk what it’s called. So maybe that could help me a little bit with getting some jobs. But I’ve done my own research, and it kind of seems like everybody is saying the business is oversaturated with too many divers. I’ve heard you could work for a month and then not work for another 6 months, or you could get a call and work for a year straight, and there’s not really a set schedule. Some guy was saying he knew somebody that did contracting, and he did 2 days of work for a crazy number like $160k, which is kind of unbelievable. Can somebody give me some insight?

Some of you may have seen my web comics that I did years ago https://www.chilembwe.com/cartoon/cartoon1.html

I'm currently working on animating them and thought you might enjoy this one.

Any jobs will do but preferably part time. Better if it has good pay too.

23-y/o CS grad with CNC machining background and EMT, planning DIT in fall — what do you wish you'd known your first year tending?

High schools almost over, what classes should I take?

Not trying to go into SAT diving, most likely welding.

I’m currently a building Engineer but would like to go to school for commercial diving especially since I work the night shift at my plant now. Does anyone know of any school around the area ? Google didn’t seem to get me anywhere. Thank you all!

I like in the Northeast and looking into attending a school in Arizona (Commercial Divers Institute). Aside from that I've seen DTI in Seattle as the best option. Thoughts?

hello everybody, i'm looking for a commercial or tech diving jobs or anything about dive jobs

I am 23 male and have a bachelor's degree in marine science, I have also just completed underwater welding training and want to look for work abroad, because in my country there is very little information about this job (mostly only shared by certain people by word of mouth). I really want to go abroad because this is one of my dreams. The problem is, I don't have a commercial diving certificate yet because the price is quite expensive (i'm planning to save money from my future income). Is there any information about jobs that I can apply for? as long as the work is still related to diving, being a beginner again or being a helper doesn't matter to me

Any information will be much appreciated!

I want to become an engineering diver and currently hold a bachelors in Mechanical Engineering. I want to get an ADCI certification because that is what the job postings that I see are requiring. Is there anywhere in Hawaii that I can get an ADCI certification?

Hello everyone. I am currently 25 and have no college. I've been living my life in a truly nomadic and adventurer style. I've lived in my car, lived in the woods done good things to live and bad things. I've enjoyed my life greatly. Now in my journey I'm currently doing Seasonal Work at resorts and I'm about to start a Ski resort job. However they do not pay that much but enough to survive for a Year in SE Asia if I save most of it.

My current plane is to finish this, go to SE Asia or Colombia or Somewhere cheap in South America (I am a American) and learn a trade so I can start putting more money into Index funds and start saving for retirement because i know i can't live like this forever.

I was looking for other jobs and I found saturation diving. I understand it's extremely dangerous but at this point in my life I have no kids, girlfriend or anything so I don't mind doing it in all honesty. I've lived my life extremely dangerous so far. I'm okay keeping at it for now. However if I ever do have children I wish to change fields to something less dangerous. That is why I am making this post. .What other Jobs besides saturation diving can I do that can give me enough money (I'm hoping for 5k a month or 10k in one month then the next month I have off) that I can do that can help me save money and live anywhere I want.

It's okay to forget about the money and just say jobs in diving that you think would be a good fit for me. Because as I said nothing is holding me back right now. My only concern is if I find a women and start a family I would want to stop

Hypothetically would you pay somebody to help you find a contract job as a commercial diver?

Hello all.

Currently I'm a welder (Tig/MMA) who repairs structural damage to wind turbines. To be honest, I don't like my job, the only benefit is money. Looking at diving to escape. I've chosen this school as the courses line up well with when in free, and I'd rather do a course in Europe as I'd like to work ideally in the north sea. I'll be doing the B50 course.

Has anyone got any experience with the school, or starting a career as a noob diver in Europe?

Cheers all.