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Is there a law or regulation in the U.S. requiring scuba certification for tank fills?

A buddy of mine needs divers for his hull cleaning service in Huntington Beach. Signing bonus of $100/month for the first year and a 10% pay premium as a performance bonus for 200+ feet per day. Company boat and fuel provided. Let me know if you're interested and I'll put you in touch with him...

A few of us Bay Area hull divers asked Roger Yazbeck to come up with a winter-time spearsuit for us. We wanted a large pocket on the thigh, elimination of the chest pad, reinforcement on the seat and we wanted it to be 8mm. Well he did it! I understand this may not be what every spearo wants or...

FastBottoms Hull Diving is a well known and respected San Francisco East Bay Area dive service with a large (and growing) clientele. I'm looking to add one or two part-time independent contractor hull cleaners to our crew. My subcontractors get 50% of all labor performed (paid by check weekly)...

Are you a professional hull diver? Have you ever been one? Considering getting into the biz? There's a place for you on Facebook. Over 1600 members in a very active group, discussing all things hull cleaning: Hull Divers & The Business of In-water Hull Cleaning

Just getting started. Discuss all things related to in-water hull cleaning. Come check it out: https://www.facebook.com/groups/105878193417892/

A few years ago, in a thread here about hull cleaning, I chided some South Carolina hull cleaners about their cleaning techniques. Primarily about their exclusive use of scrapers to clean boat bottoms (when the rest of the civilized world uses pads or brushes. :D) A few of these guys got a...

The word here in the SF Bay Area is that a 61-year-old rookie hull cleaner died in the water a few weeks ago on what may have been his first day of training at Joyner Marina in Carolina Beach. His name was James Fassler. Anybody have any details? Very interested in cause of death.

For you hull cleaners out there...

Experienced hull cleaner wanted for part-time work in the San Francisco East Bay Area. $200-$300/day.

Whenever I use the "Search" function, the results seem to come back in a random, non-chronological order. This makes it very difficult to find recent threads on a particular subject, especially if there are multiple pages of results. Is there any way to rectify this? Thanks.

Well-established and respected East Bay dive service with large clientele looking for an experienced hull cleaner for part-time work including in-water hull cleaning and anode replacement. $200-$300/day possible. Work schedule very flexible. The ideal candidate will have at least a year's...

...who wanted to find 3 or 4 roommates/business partners to each bring like $5K to the table so they could share an apartment and start a hull cleaning business in Florida? No smokers, no drinkers, no parties or late nights because he had to protect his newly minted sobriety? They would pool...

Anybody ever taken any pix underwater with an iPhone 5 in a Lifeproof case? Only rated to 2 meters but most of what I do is at that depth or less. Would make my job easier if I knew the iPhone could take a decent pic underwater.

I have been in the hull cleaning business for almost 19 years and have tens of thousands of dives under my belt doing it. I have worn custom jons for 15+ years and have never, ever had any skin problems. But about a months ago, this appeared on the outside of both my calves: It seems to be...