Diving Systems Engineering and Hire

Saturation Diver on board DSV Seven Atlantic.Part of a team involve predominantly with the Shell IRM contract.Other clients including BP, Wintershall, and Total.

Nightshift commissioning, for all gas and pressure systems.Work scope included all gas storage, gas transits and pipe runs for HP air, gas, and LP gas systems for all systems involved in the construction of a cutting edge diving vessel.Leak testing, pressure testing and chart data production, change controls, dive control, saturation control and all associated pipe work, control modules, and 140,000 m3 of HP gas storage. Workscope including planning tasks to work around other groups involved in the construction, to best utilise all assets and time.Vessel has proved itself with minimal downtime post construction in one of the most demanding work sites in the world.

Part of a team of divers aboard DSV Toisa Polaris involved with all forms of subsea engineering within the North Sea region.Client predominantly Shell, but other including BP, Apache, Wintershall, Centrica, Total, Statoil.Work scope also including the Statoil PRS habitat pipeline repair system, for automated pipeline welding, and subsea repairs.

Senior dive tech.Part of a team of technicians doing routine and non routine maintenance and repair tasks on board Polaris. All systems involved for saturation diving operations, including HP gas, storage, compression and distribution. Hydraulic systems, bell and living chamber complex maintenance. To ancillary systems including tooling and associated diver equipment.

Worked as Air diver, and dive tech on sat system.Working from various vessels including Fisher Caavalier, Hyundai DLB 2500, DLB Regina 250.Contracts from installing 42" spools in black water, jacket setting in Bombay High, and artificial island projects in the North Caspian Sea, and pipeline repairs and maintenance offshore Iran.Clients included OKIOC, Reliance Petroleum, ONGC, NIOCTime spent in Frasers Yard in Jadaf Docks, Dubai, UAE, refurbishing an old sat system and on the construction of a new mobile sat system. Complete bare metal rebuild and construction.

Class two combat engineer, class one fabricator and sheet metal worker.Tasks varied from bridge construction, demolitions, explosives, road construction, mine field clearance and laying.Part of a dedicated engineer reconnaissance unit for armoured warfare.Theatres of operations include Kuwait, Iraq, N Ireland, Bosnia (former republic of Yugoslavia)Other tours including Cyprus, Kenya, Gibraltar, Canada, Germany.