Has anyone worked for any uk comapnies? How was it? Was it fixed contract type of deal or zero hours? How was the pay?
Curious as ive seen listings that seem to indicate both exist. The biggest company ive heard about is shearwater marine.
Curious as im British and have been exploring it as a career.
Just inquring to see if anyone knows of a padi dive school that used a pool at witham in the uk?
I dont think its around now but im trying to get in contact with an old dive instructor.
Good evening everyone, just looking for peoples experiences and knowledge on saturation diving. Specific to the uk would be nice but all experience is worth listening to.
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As far as I can ascertain it's more about the instructor than almost anything else. Though in the UK HSE is the standard to which divers must be achieved.
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I'm curious to hear if anyone has recently gone through a school, what their experience was and the costs associated with it.
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As well as people who have recently got jobs, how does it affect relationships, what is the real costs and gains.
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How much is made after tax and expenses?
Was commercial dive gear provided or does it need to be purchased by the diver as much of it seems to be custom fit gear.
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How long has training, how many dives before you went etc.
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I have an open water padi cert but I'm 26 and haven't done any diving in 10 years after doing a drysuit course.
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I'm definitely interested in getting back into diving as a hobby but also as a career change as the effects of brexit meant that I can't use my commercial pilots license in the uk without redoing a year and a half's set of exams that already mostly killed my love of flying.
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For diving however i never stopped loving it, though the environment in the uk isn't exactly ideal from what I know, so any information for recreational or tech diving would be appreciated. Especially of diving in Norfolk.
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I look forward to hearing the experiences of people and learning more.
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Good evening fellow scuba Steve's.
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Just inquiring as to what the best route is for tech diving in terms of certifications, which are the most useful, what gets you the furthest etc.
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My current situation is I'm 26 and I was meant to into the airlines as I hold a commercial pilots licence however brexit realities mean I cannot use the qualification in any country except for the uk and Ireland. It does have to be on European aircraft which limits me to about 2 airlines as I'm british.
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As such I'm now looking back to diving as a potential career, one in which had interested me when I was much younger. I obtained a padi open water cert when I was 10 and did dry suit training. Other then some pool work a couple of years ago I haven't dived much since then.
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What organisation would be best suited for the tec diving route, including things such as deep diving, mixed gas such as Heliox and triox, and also potentially underwater welding.
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What are the best ways to get open water dives in the uk as I'm in Norfolk and what other jobs could be good to get into that are diving related.
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Further more any information regarding the recognition of each agencies certifications would be useful as I would think some retraining would be required.
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Any information would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks.
Anyone fancy doing the math on how many reprocessors, fluidizers and smaller reactors it would take to keep the biggest reactor on verderium running?
The caa can't seem to make their mind up as to what ratings or exams are valid for the issuance of uk ratings.
You can have an easa ir which was gained under the easa atpl exam subjects and it counts.
Yet you can't use those same exams to get a uk caa cpl or fatpl issued.
This is based on having a UK and EASA CPL but no IR on the UK license
Just sending feelers out to see if anyone has experience or knowledge on the process to convert an easa cpl and meir to an faa one?
I would assume there's the usual create an online account. Submit medical and documents etc. However I'm more wondering on the exams, work and flight review phases.
The reason for asking is because I'm British however I have an easa cpl due to Britain's exit from the eu and the subsequent refusal of the United Kingdoms aviation authority to verify easa licenses for commercial purposes has left me in a tricky position where most jobs require me to move though without a European union passport this sadly severely limits opportunities.
My other option is to resit all 13 exams again of which would be the atpl ones, taking up to a year and a half. Having done surface level research it seems like the US commercial theory consists of only a single theoretical knowledge exam? As well as perhaps two more for multi engine and instrument if wanting those ratings too.
Can anyone advise as to steps, time length, cost and if you know anyone that has successfully moved over as visas could prove difficult. I understand the licensing works different as in europe a cpl pilot with atpl exams can fly for the airlines where as this may be different in the US as there doesn't seem to be such thing as a 'frozen' atpl.
Mostly curious as I've always had an interest in agriculture aviation and if possible, would like to work towards doing it. Though again knowledge on that subject matter would be welcome as I'd imagine there would need to be checks due to the use of chemicals on food supply by a foreign worker.
Many thanks.