I am currently looking at breaking out in like 2+ years. I’ve been tending/ rigging offshore for a few months. Zero working dives and it seems like that is going to be a while before I do. Just want to see how the breakout process has been for others in the Gulf of America

Hi all 👋🏼 My name is Tally and I’m currently finishing surface supplied and offshore top up training with the Professional Diving Academy in Scotland. I’m based in London so will be looking for work around there. Can anyone recommend any companies that operate in London or have any ongoing projects in the south/east of England?

This is the missing CHAPTER 7 from the Diving for Money ebook I wrote. It may help those who are trying to get offshore and feeling like no matter what they do, no opportunities seem to present themselves. Like almost everyone, I didn't get a shot offshore straight after finishing dive training. I did the hard yards inshore for a few years first, starting with a little local company doing scuba dives on piers, small boats and moorings. I eventually picked up a job with one of the major inshore dive companies at the time and started doing some serious work. One of those jobs was building a large grey water outfall pipeline, working on a large construction barge. Still inshore, but as close to offshore as you can get. I tried to make every dive better than the last — in pursuit of excellence, if there is such a thing, not to say there wasn’t several bad ones along the way. Between dives I tried to always be busy, and when there was nothing to do, I was offering to make coffees. I chatted with everyone, tried to build good connections, tried to become ‘’bros’’ as we say in New Zealand. It didn’t always work. I got on quite well with one diver. He was a local and we ended up going on fishing and hunting missions on our days off. Skip forward two years. I had moved to Perth, Australia in pursuit of this fabled offshore work. Door knocking had got me in with a good inshore company with a solid dive system, doing lots of work with offshore vessels that came into port. I got a forklift licence and showed interest in the yard work, which led me into learning technician work and assisting in maintaining the gear. I had a full-time role in the workshop after getting my Kirby Morgan hat tech ticket and was always busy between dive projects — I even started dive supervising. For two years I'd been putting my CV out to offshore dive companies without much of a reply. I guess because I didn't have the offshore experience — Catch 22. Then one day I get an email from my hunting mate that I met on the outfall job. He'd made it out offshore and had done such a great job out there that they asked him if he knew anyone with a similar work ethic.

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Hi everyone Im Eve Im currently doing scuba instructor training in NZ and contemplating going in to Commercial after doing a year or so instructing abroad (or just going straight to commercial training) Thanks for having me and I look foward to learning from you all.