Divers in training

Divers are not risk takers





Diving is, arguably, the most unique job on earth. No other profession requires you to bring your own air supply with you.



Divers are thoroughly trained in Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus, Surface Supplied Breathing Apparatus and Closed Circuit Breathing Apparatus.





We learn how to breathe all over again because if you can't breathe properly, you certainly can't work.



We study underwater medicine, recompression and hyperbaric chamber operations, physics and physiology of underwater diving.



All those boring lessons that we painfully sat through in school suddenly made perfect sense in the real world.



More so because getting things wrong would have far more drastic outcomes than just failing an exam.

Dive planning and salvage operations, underwater cutting and welding as well as the use of explosives were all par for the course.



The expansive scope of our training served to prepare us for most eventualities. But as there is always the element of the unknown to contend with, we were constantly driven to improve our physical fitness skills.



We did this...





so we could do this.





We practiced jumping off a perfectly good sea-going vessel...





so we could safely jump out of a perfectly good aircraft.





We swam for miles...





and when we weren't swimming, we were running.



