COMPANY PROFILE.

SURVEY & SALVAGE AGENTS  CONSTRUCTION DIVING ENGINEERS

INTRODUCTION

Underwater Diving Services are a well-established company with 30 years of civil diving experience with a long and successful track record.

Based in Barrow-in- Furness, we have an excellent management team with a wide range of experience from video camera inspections to heavy civil construction. We have competed on the open market successfully for small and major projects with a variety of construction companies, water authorities and large corporations.

Below are the areas of expertise into which we are included in:-

SERVICES.

Civil Construction.

Management through hands on construction.

Demolition.

Licensed to use explosives for surface and underwater activities.

Ordinance  clearance.

Range and battle field clearance marine mine detection.

Compressed air working.

Tunneling and caisson sinking, management and hands on experience.

Inspection.

Jetty’s, hulls, piers, piles, power station intakes, outlets, dams, revetments, harbour walls, buoys, moorings, pipelines, outfalls, structures etc.  

EQUIPMENT

We possess four surface demand dive units two of which are fully  contained in road towable units. Both can be supplied on H.P. or L.P. systems.

SAFETY

Underwater Diving Services has to date had no accidents at any diving location, although it is company policy to have a fully trained paramedic in each of our dive teams.

  PERSONNEL

As most of our divers are tradesmen and engineers we can offer a diving team qualified to undertake most works to a high standard and without supervision in fields such as, Concrete pours, Shuttering, Burning, Welding, Electrical installation inspection.

Sub sea inspection is a skill that requires a high degree of accuracy and an ability to make out reports that the layman can understand. Underwater Diving Services produces the reports with the aid of computer diagrammatic drawings making the report easy to understand. Our personnel are qualified to C.S.W.I.P. 3.2U and Lloyd standards.

UNDERWATER COLOUR VIDEO CAMERA

Underwater Diving Services have a high definition colour video camera to help the clients with inspection work and surveys, the customer can instruct the diver while watching the monitor, thereby seeing at first hand and with better clarity the inspection  while at the same time a video recording is being made.

  ORDINANCE CLEARANCE

We are able to offer both marine and land based ordinance clearance with our in house highly trained R.N. E.O.D. engineers and specialised detection equipment to work in any environment.  

MEDIA

Our personnel are H.S.E. divers trained in First Aid and boat handling.  All are practiced film extras as police divers, sports divers and boatmen with relevant experience to provide a realistic scene.

  OTHER SERVICES

There are many other services on offer so if you are unsure please do hesitate to contact us with your individual requirements and we will be pleased to arrange for the appropriate personnel to contact you or arrange a meeting.