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If you really want to navigate underwater in zero viz….

I don’t think so…certainly not one of the ‘famous’ aquaculture countries. I’d guess some caged fin-fish in the Med, and some shellfish on the wet and north coast

Failed at the first hurdle…probably just bored on his phone on a barstool…

I’ve sure you’ve read through all the information on this site and others by now, so I won’t Labour any points, but to become a Sat diver, you first have to become an certified, experienced and competent Air Diver which is where your focus should be. If you can’t hack the Air Diving process, you...

Early 30’s isn’t quite too old to begin a commercial diving career, but you would definitely have a restricted career path, which might not be an issue, depending on your goals… What I mean is that you would be fairly unlikely to become a Sat Diver offshore, say…..which isn’t everyone’s goal...

Nice pic! ‘homeward bound’! it’s really pretty amazing how much has changed with that technology in the last decade or two. Nowadays even a fairly run-of-the-mill hat camera can take very hi definition footage. A few years ago, I was on an inspection campaign with a lot of MPI, remedial...

In all chambers here there’s Bluetooth keyboards (with touchpad for the mouse stuff) with either 12v Monitors or projector outside, screen inside. Razors, toothbrush etc. Not a problem, send them out to be charged.we’ve just been trialling a remote medical system which goes through the bulkhead...

So far, bell bounce (now called TUP diving) is only being done off DP Sat boats in the North Sea, basically using one of the bells and one chamber, although at least one of the big boys is considering making a dedicated system up, and a Norwegian IRM company was ‘marketing’ a dedicated system...

How much? Well, in most regions of the world, an awful lot less than in 2017, unfortunately...

Certainly weird to look up and see the thrusters...! Kind of all of the above, too...but mostly because of the Cmax length allowed for the excursion umbilicals becomes so restricted due to the distance to the nearest thrusters that you would be pointless going shallower... I don’t have the...

I’m currently in saturation, stored at 15 meters on Heliox, this is as shallow as we can go, and the main reason why is that there is a large amount of work to be done at this depth and 24hr bell diving is more efficient than surface supplied diving. Bell diving is subject to slightly increased...

The Miller seems to just basically be a fall-arrest harness which can go in the water. Ever since the incident in the North Sea, we have been using a ‘trapeze’ along with the man lift and harness, as it was observed that lifting an unconscious diver from the single point at the back of the neck...

I’ve only ever worked Europe, Middle East and once in the Caribbean so I would think specifics would be different to you, but I’ve been a commercial diver for 27 years so far, and I’d hope I have some insight to the industry by now... if you’re near a few ports and have a good skill set and...

If we had been a couple of months into the season I’d have bought them all from you without letting anyone else know, but it’s been a quiet winter, so.....good luck!

There’s a few Facebook pages where you’d find guys who would have your fingers off for them...Dive Helmet Trader is one that I know a lot of commercial guys are on...

Depending on where the training has been done, it’s possible/probable that he would have had Scuba training at some point, and maybe even worked with Scuba at some point in his career, but unless he has gone diving regularly while on leave, he’s going to be pretty ‘rusty’...

Not really. Apart from basic theory and physiology, recreational scuba diving and Sat diving are very different things...

The dye, in the form of a chunk of luminous dye stick, is popped into the flange by the diver just before he buttons it up (tightens the bolts up) so that when it is supposedly tensioned to the pressures required for testing by the engineers, if there is any leakage, the dye is obvious. (Many...

Thinking about Industrial design, and it kinda seems to me that most of the major issues with Sat systems, Bells, Vessels etc. concerning this have been addressed more than adequately..the problem is getting all the companies to spend the money on the decent gear (and of course, persuade the oil...

There’s quite a few films on YouTube (well, clips, maybe- not exactly films) if you can afford the time to go through them...one that comes to mind is an episode of ‘mighty ships’ (UK series name, probably something else in other countries) on the Skandi Arctic (now called the Deep Arctic) which...