How do they match: Commercial Divers

  • Operate underwater video, sonar, recording, or related equipment to investigate underwater structures or marine life.
  • Inspect and test docks, ships, buoyage systems, plant intakes or outflows, or underwater pipelines, cables, or sewers, using closed circuit television, still photography, and testing equipment.
  • Perform activities related to underwater search and rescue, salvage, recovery, or cleanup operations.
  • Perform offshore oil or gas exploration or extraction duties, such as conducting underwater surveys or repairing and maintaining drilling rigs or platforms.
  • Recover objects by placing rigging around sunken objects, hooking rigging to crane lines, and operating winches, derricks, or cranes to raise objects.

  • Operate cranes, hoists, or other moving or lifting equipment.
  • Operate welding equipment.
  • Inspect systems to determine if they are operating properly.
  • Train others in operational procedures.