with Stu Sutcliffe
Breaking into offshore work is harder than the courses tell you.
Real-world training, guidance, and tools for offshore careers — diving, inspection, ROV and beyond.
Built from 20+ years of offshore experience.
Beyond the Surface Offshore is a platform built by an experienced offshore inspector and diver. It provides practical guidance, tools, and training for people pursuing careers in commercial diving, offshore inspection, and subsea operations.
A growing community of divers, inspectors, and offshore workers who want straight answers — not sales pitches.
The offshore world is hard to break into. The community makes it less confusing.
Get Access — It's FreeReal conversations about the offshore industry. What schools don't teach you. What companies won't say. What you actually need to know.
Practical tools built by someone who's sat the exams and worked the job. Not recycled textbook content.
Realistic mock questions for your 3.1U. Understand the format, find your gaps, go in confident.
Access via CommunityThe next step. Mock questions for your 3.2U — the qualification that opens the real doors offshore.
Access via CommunityMock questions for your 3.4U. Targeted practice to get you through one of the tougher steps in the qualification ladder.
Access via CommunityMock questions for your ACFM qualification. Covers technique theory, signal interpretation, and report writing — the bits that catch people out.
Access via CommunityAlternating Current Field Measurement — broken down simply. What it is, how it works, what inspectors actually need to know.
Read the ExplainerCreated by me,Stu Sutcliffe now working as an offshore inspection professional and client rep. I've been on both sides — the diver in the water and the inspector on deck — and I've seen what the industry doesn't tell you before you sign up.
Beyond the Surface exists because I wish someone had given me straight answers when I was starting out. The podcast, the community, and the training tools are all built around one thing: reducing the gap between what you're taught and what offshore work actually looks like.