Engineering and Commercial Diving

[BornToDive627]

What the hell does engineering have to do with Commercial Diving? are they separate workers or is it a necessity for commercial diving ?

 

[muddiver]

The US Navy and a number of government agencies that own wharfs, piers and bridges require their structures to be inspected by professional engineers. There are a number of engineering firms that employ structural and civil engineers that are certified to dive surface supplied gear. The trend for that past ten years is to have engineers that are schooled through a commercial diving school. All these guys do is inspect and asses the structures so that the underwater gorillas can come in and do repair work.

 

[BornToDive627]

The US Navy and a number of government agencies that own wharfs, piers and bridges require their structures to be inspected by professional engineers. There are a number of engineering firms that employ structural and civil engineers that are certified to dive surface supplied gear. The trend for that past ten years is to have engineers that are schooled through a commercial diving school. All these guys do is inspect and asses the structures so that the underwater gorillas can come in and do repair work.

So theyre separate jobs in the commercial diving world?

 

[Heliumthief]

I don't know about the American market, but generally speaking? Yes they are separate jobs. offshore, engineers do the calculations and planning, and the diver does the work. When I used to do a lot of inshore work, you would generally find that the engineers who dived were from the consultant engineer company doing so to inspect the work. They spent 95% of their time in an office doing engineering stuff.

 

[Kevrumbo]

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