Sweden: trying to find some old commercial divers....

[Boston Breakwater]

Are you trying to find a particular diver, document the industry, or researching a particular salvage? Are you only interested in divers or could salvage crews be helpful? Have you looked into:

• Companies that were active in those years. I can't recall any Swedish companies competing in the North Sea oil patch.
• Diving trade schools and the Swedish Navy
• Particular salvage projects. There are usually newspaper articles that would have some breadcrumbs.
• Are there Swedish trade unions that include divers? If instance, the Pile Driver's Union covers divers on the Pacific Coast of the US.
• Salvage is not a full-time profession, there just isn't that much work in the world. Companies have to be involved with other work like harbor and ships husbandry, tug and barge services, harbor crane services, or the offshore oil industry.

Not many commercial divers in the US could make a living in that era without international travel. A Swedish commercial diver would have to travel or work in other professions, unusually under and on the water in harbors.

Good morning. @Akimbo
You're always awesome.....
Cheers.

 

[TruckDiver1981]

See if this works, this is one of the divers who got a case of DCS....

 

[iain/hsm]

I am trying to find some old commercial salvage divers from the late 70s/early 80s from Sweden.

And your not a product of some "happy" liasion on the beach back then now in your 40's looking for your long lost Papa and a share in his inheritance? Good luck but you can see the first problem your faced with.

And the second is no one in the commercial diving industry is going to give you a name for contact.

But to be more helpful you could try an old commercial divers forum called longstreath.com
and email the administrator

https://www.longstreath.com/community/forum/26-looking-for/

 

[TruckDiver1981]

It would be some pregnancy for my poor old mum if i was!!

Well i will give that a try

 

[Zef]

Appreciate it! Smit’s were one of the Dutch companies contracted. I think they are now owned by Maersk? I made no headway trying to contact someone from them

Smit is not part of Maersk. Smit was purchased by Royal Boskalis group back in 2010 and remain a subsidiary of Boskalis under the name Smit Salvage to this day.

I have recently developed significant in-roads with Smit Salvage and have recently spent some time with a few of the salvage masters that have been with the company for quite a number of years. OP, if this is still an active project for you, contact me and perhaps I can help obtain information from the folks I know.

-Z

 

[TruckDiver1981]

That is great, i will send you a DM now