| y people, a desk job is anathema. Even a job on land | | | | A scuba diving career can also be part of engineering. |
| is not all that great. Some of these people get into a | | | | Companies need divers to help them build and |
| scuba diving career and end up loving it. Whether it is | | | | maintain underwater structures like bridge pilings and |
| digging for forensic evidence in a riverbed or working | | | | dams. |
| in underwater archaeology, there are actually three | | | | Public Safety And The Environment |
| general categories of professional divers. | | | | Even if you live in the middle of a continent, hundreds |
| Commercial Divers | | | | of miles from an ocean, there are divers at work in |
| The broadest category of scuba diving careers is | | | | your community. Police and rescue personnel need |
| commercial diving. But even within this category there | | | | divers to search for evidence underwater and then |
| are a lot of options. | | | | help them to fish it out. |
| The most obvious is probably being a diving instructor | | | | And of course, all kinds of environmental |
| or guide. Instructing combines the same stresses of | | | | organizations, non-profits, and schools need divers on |
| any kind of teaching with the additional element of | | | | their projects. Scientists themselves dive as well as |
| students sometimes being nervous and the | | | | hiring other divers to help keep track of an |
| environment being potentially dangerous. Teachers | | | | ecosystem, for example. Divers can help catalog |
| and guides take responsibility for new divers’ | | | | corals and fish, as well as testing for pollution, |
| safety — a big job. Potential teachers must | | | | removing debris, and even creating man-made reefs. |
| get certified in teaching scuba and will learn rules to | | | | To get into a scuba diving career, most people are |
| do the job well. | | | | divers first, then look for jobs they can do |
| There are also things that need cleaning up or hauling | | | | underwater. Salvagers, for example, generally love |
| out of the ocean like shipwrecks and other debris. A | | | | diving and then start salvaging, rather than loving |
| scuba diving career in salvaging involves raising | | | | salvage and then learning to do underwater work. |
| shipwrecks. They may be modern shipwrecks that | | | | Even someone who decides to become a marine |
| are in a shipping path, or they may be old wrecks. | | | | biologist must look forward to diving, not consider it |
| There are salvage companies that just prospect old | | | | a bore. |
| shipwrecks looking for whatever treasure they can. | | | | |