The Underwater Centre

Commercial Diving Q and A Forum

All questions are answered by Alf Leadbitter, Dive Training Manager or Ali MacLeod Assistant Dive Training Manager at The Underwater Centre. Now a commercial instructor Alf has 15 years experience as a commercial diver where he worked his way up to Sat Diving Supervisor and Oil Company Rep. Ali has been diving for 16 years and is a qualified Diver, Dive Supervisor and Diver Medic. The Underwater Centre is the only centre to offer all the HSE commercial diving qualifications from Scuba to Closed Bell (Saturation Diving) as well as industry tailored skills courses, Diver Medic courses and Assistant Life Support Technician courses.

Questions posted to the Commercial Diving Q & A forum page are sent to the Underwater Centre for comment and reply. Once a reply has been sent, both the question and answer will post to the forum page.

Questions are shown in Red and the answer from the Underwater Centre is shown in Blue. Once an answer is posted, it is then possible for other users to post additional comments, these are shown in black.

New Question      
topics
Replies
Views
Last Post
Question - hi,i was wondering if anyone can shine some light on commerical diving for me,as iam strongly concidering taking it up? i am a fully qualified met ...
2
1568

Question - hi alf As i have said before im at the point where i no what direction im heading in i just want to fill in the blanks, firstly as im in the nav ...
1
1546

Question - Hi Alf, i am a 24 year old SCUBA Diving instructor. I am trying to find a path into Commercial diving and i have made some contacts in Greece wher ...
2
1525

Question - Hello I am a professional diver in Brazil and member of the ADC INCA would like to know what certificates need to start my activities here in the ...
1
1280

Question - Could you advise me how quickly I would be able to sit my sat course?
Hi, I am just about to do my commercial diving course. I currently work offshore on a dive boat as a rigger/welder, I am very keen to get in ...
4
1723

Question - Is there companys that will help you with funding for becoming a commercial diver . I have no expierence in it but have always wanted to do this i ...
1
1333

Question - I am looking at bocoming a commercial diver and I was wondering who the best training organisation is and also what the state of the industry is i ...
I have been a recreational diver for over 20 years which 12 of which have been at professional level. I am a technical diving instructor and have ...
1
1485

Question - new enterant to commercial diveing
i currently hold a ENG1 seafarers medical and i am wondering as i ware glasses would this as a rule affect my ability to dive.
1
1262

Question - Hi there Ive was in the Royal Navy for just over 2 years, but came out due to severe depression whilst I was in I gained an NVQ leavel 2 in engine ...
1
1233

Question - Requirment for divers with welding certificate (not coded welding)
2
1422

Question - Alf/Ali. I am looking at going over to Seadog diving school in Saldanha Bay South Africa to do the 12 week commercial diver training course in Jan ...
2
1545

Question - Hello my names is Joana,I'm looking for some advice about working as a commercial diver in UK.My boyfriend has a lot of courses done here in Spain ...
1
1293

Question - Hello name is Joana and I'm looking for information about commercial diving in the U.K because My boyfriend wants to improve his knowledge as a co ...
His training done is: "Tecnico en buzeo a mediana profundida",From Ministry of Development-Spain .he has been certificate in the International Co ...
1
1324

Question - I am 29 years old coming from a background of working wthin the financial sector and would like to start a new career in commercial diving if its ...
I have been looking through some other posts dating back to August 2007 which are similar to mine and there are some very different comments about ...
1
1584

Question - Hi i am very interested in becoming commercial diver. i have 13 yrs experience as a fabricator/welder. can you tell me if my work background count ...
1
1497

More forum pages:
Go to page- << Prev Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Next Page >>
Disclaimer:
The views expressed by the author are their own and the publishers accept no liability for the advice and views expressed by the author, or other users, which are provided as a general service to divers. Users are warned that secondary posts are the views of other users and may not be technically correct.