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Why
Learn Underwater Welding?
October 10, 2004 Why should you learn underwater welding? The immediate answer is, Why not? Because, someone may say, it costs money to learn that stuff. It's true, improving yourself does take time and money and effort. But how can investing in yourself be a bad move? If you analyze the issue, a better answer would be - There's no good reason not to learn underwater welding, especially if you're looking to better yourself and increase your odds of success in finding a satisfying career. Consider what's involved in becoming an underwater welder. Take either half of the name first - underwater or welding. Start with welding. You know it's always good to have a skill, and being a skilled welder is a good thing to be. You could take up welding as a hobby, and find that your skill develops into paying work. Or, you may go directly to welding as a profession, and turn your profession into a lifelong career. Now take the second part, underwater. The same thing applies for underwater that applies to welding. You could learn diving as a hobby and perhaps turn your hobby into a paying profession. And, you could go directly to diving as a profession and make a good career out of it. The common thread in welding or underwater is this: if you learn a skill, either as a hobby or a profession, you can turn that skill into a career. So why learn to be an underwater welder? Simple - to learn two skills, and double your chances of finding a rewarding career. So, you take two special skills, diving and welding, put them together, and what do you have? You have what the maxim suggests - the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. You really have more than a diver who can weld, or a welder who can dive. Typical jobs for an underwater welder involve exercising topside welding skills on a project and taking that project underwater for placement. In that case, you do have a welder who dives. But as often as not, an underwater welder employs skills with specialized welding equipment and techniques unknown to a topside welder. And conversely, an underwater welder may employ specialized diving equipment and techniques not known to a sport or recreational diver to get a job done. In that case, he's more than a diver who can weld. You can contact us at Commercial Diving Academy to get all the information you need to understand the training and potential involved in underwater welding, but for now, a basic outline goes like this: to be an underwater welder, we'll teach you • skills and knowledge common to topside welding; • skills and knowledge common to recreational divers; • specialized skills and knowledge for commercial diving; • specialized skills and knowledge for underwater welding. Returning to the question, why learn underwater welding? A host of answers present themselves: - to improve yourself, - to invest in yourself, - to learn specialized skills that put you a step ahead, - to be more than just a welder or just a diver; - to be different, special, unique; - to improve your chances for success in the career of your life. If you're interested in a career in underwater welding, consider the options you'll find at Commercial Diving Academy. Shoot us an email or give us a call to get more details on what we can do for you. Check out the wealth of information we provide on this site, and if you still don't have all you want to know, call us at 1-888-974-2232, or email us with the 'Ask An Expert' function on our homepage. We know what it's like to enjoy success in underwater welding, and we'd be happy to share that knowledge with you. Copyright 2003, 2004. |
