The silence after you qualify
April 3, 2026
What Nobody Tells You After Diving School Qualification Nobody warns you about the silence. You leave diving school with your ticket, your logbook, and probably
Real stories, honest advice, and lessons learned from years offshore
What Nobody Tells You After Diving School Qualification Nobody warns you about the silence. You leave diving school with your ticket, your logbook, and probably
Would You Get Inside a 3D Printed Diving Chamber? Based on Episode 8 of the Beyond the Surface Podcast Take a second with that question
123 men died when the Alexander L. Kielland capsized in the North Sea in 1980. A fatigue crack no bigger than a bad weld started it all. This is why offshore inspection exists — and how you build a career doing it.
A Yorkshireman once told me I was a right posh twat. By the end of the job he said I was like a son to him. Here’s what that taught me about how offshore crews really work.
50% of Your Career Happens Off the Dive Site Dive schools teach decompression tables. They don’t teach you how to handle the commercial diver lifestyle—the
The Day Everything Changed I was 90 feet in the air, dangling from an oil rig in the North Sea, completely unable to move. This
“What Do Civilians Do?” I was 19 years old, freshly discharged from the Royal Engineers, and I had absolutely no idea what to do with
The Question Everyone Asks about a commercial diver salary (But Nobody Answers Honestly) “How much do commercial divers make?” I get asked this more than