Deep sea diving/diving for the oil industry?

Mr Joshua · 23 May 2006 at 14:32

Hi all,
just thinking about jobs that might be interesting and this one came up! I remember seeing a program on Discovery years ago (maybe 10 years!) about a diving school off the Plymouth sound who were training divers, seemed very interesting.

I'm just wondering if there's anyone here that has done it for a living or has researched it? Working on oil rigs etc, is there a requirement for people to be highly educated (to uni level in engineering etc) in engineering/construction?

Cheers

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Mr Joshua · 23 May 2006 at 14:37

Sirrel Squirrel said:
I reckon you'd have to know quite a bit about engineering, probably need a degree and experience on land and also be a very good diver.

Being a good diver and having experience is sort of a given but needing to be educated to degree level?

Mr Joshua · 23 May 2006 at 15:17

Cheers for the replies, I've been looking at sat diving articles on google - it helps when you know the right terms

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Mr Joshua · 23 May 2006 at 15:24

have you actaully got any diving experience??

Not yet, I'm just seeing exactly what is required before I make any decisions

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