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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I'm currently an inshore diver with about 2 years of experience, I've been on the fence for some time about working my way to go offshore. As of now I work for an employer, as I work for them currently I want to expand my experience and do a dive tech training. And some other things Jed recommends in his e-book (Thanks Jed!), a two for one as he said. The more I look at what I need to dive offshore the more confused I get, I'm European based and so I was wondering what exactly I need. I got my B50 certificate in Norway at NYD, we also did some wetbell runs and a few practice sat runs with the closed bell and hyperbaric camber. So to sum it all up, I'd like to know the basics for what I need to go offshore and from there to work my way up to say. At least that's what I'd like to have as a goal Thanks in advance!

Thanks @Lee Wren for the question. I found a great little video on LinkedIn that tells you what the adhoc recruitment agencies ask for. I even learnt something new regarding the .docx format. The first page should always hold: Word .docx format Page 1- *Title Section - Name + Photo (optional) - Brief Job Title (Class II Offshore Air 50m - DMT - 3.2u) - Summary Years Experience (If Saturation Diving - Include totals - Sats/Lockouts/Total Lockout Time) - (Optional statement) No past diving related illness or injuries **Personal Info Section - Address - Phone - Email - Nationality - Passport Number + Expiry - Passport Issuing Authority - Port of departure - Seafarers Logbook # + Expiry ***Training & Certification Section (all relevant and in date) - Certification/Qualification -> ID# -> Expiry Date (Table format) Page 2- ****Previous contract employment - Date > Location > Job Title > Breif summary of work > Vessel > Company > Client (table format) (Most recent at the top. If Saturation Diving, also include > Bell Runs # Lock Outs) Nothing else. As stated in the video. Send in word format so the agencies can make adjustments if needed to suit their requirements. Certs- Make sure you send a cert pack with it. All Certs in your CV should be present & in date. Certs to renamed accordingly before sending - [Your Full Name - Cert Name - Expiry] My thinking is, if it's sitting on a desk or in a pdf, you want the information that they base their decisions on to be the first thing they see. Just a note: A lot of companies are now asking for people to use their internal templates for CV's so keep your information in an easy copy/paste format so to save yourself a headache. I've attached a very basic version of a template. If anyone else has something better please attach it in the comments. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/amy-archibald-645b4a234_morning-linkedin-lets-talk-cvs-and-activity-7042061999836426240-Uv2f?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAACE38FoBXTeWy05jdSgQ3HbDYn5mS8-9Rd0

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