Looking to get into ROV’s

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May 8, 2011 at 8:39 am #4237

Greg Udulutch
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Hello All,

I’m getting ready to retire from the US Navy, did 13 years as a Navy salvage/construction diver and another 10 years in Small Combat craft. extensive background in mechanical,electrical,Hydraulics,fabrication,electronic control systems. etc. Spent the last 5 years in SE Asia training guys in advanced mechanical marine systems,electronic fuel injection,fly by wire control systems,canbus systems etc.

My question is, Is there enough work out there to bother with going to the ROV schools? If I invest all this money how hard is it to stay employed?

Thanks
Udi

May 8, 2011 at 10:09 am #30870

Ray Shields
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Please read through all the threads on here, especially the ones regarding Training Schools.

They are not highly thought of and most people think they are a waste of your money.

Having attended one of them is no guarantee to a trainee job, you need an appropriate technical (electrical or hydraulic) background and experience. Even with these, jobs are few and far between today, be wary of any Training School that tells you there is great demand or that everyone in their last course is now full employed.

May 8, 2011 at 10:35 am #30869

Greg Udulutch
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Thanks, that’s what I’m starting to see the more I read on,. Almost sounds there is a little more demand for techs then pilots???

May 8, 2011 at 1:12 pm #30868

Moon
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Hello All,

I’m getting ready to retire from the US Navy, did 13 years as a Navy salvage/construction diver and another 10 years in Small Combat craft. extensive background in mechanical,electrical,Hydraulics,fabrication,electronic control systems. etc. Spent the last 5 years in SE Asia training guys in advanced mechanical marine systems,electronic fuel injection,fly by wire control systems,canbus systems etc.

My question is, Is there enough work out there to bother with going to the ROV schools? If I invest all this money how hard is it to stay employed?

Thanks
Udi

Canyon US will hire you in a heartbeat. The pay will be crap and the vessel will probably be shite but, you’ll get experience.

Back to being,

MoonPoolFiller

May 8, 2011 at 4:52 pm #30867

Ray Shields
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Thanks, that’s what I’m starting to see the more I read on,. Almost sounds there is a little more demand for techs then pilots???

A tech is also a pilot, hence the job title Pilot Technician.

Its not like the airforce where one person operates it and another fixes it!

May 8, 2011 at 9:57 pm #30866

Andy Shiers
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Hmmmm , Changes on the other side of the pond , Ray 😕
Over there you have different catagories 😯

May 8, 2011 at 10:05 pm #30865

Ray Shields
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Yeah well they always were very "special" over there!

May 8, 2011 at 10:08 pm #30864

ROVRabbit
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Hi Udi.
Due to your military background you may be a great candidate for a "proposed"new ROV school. It is NOT up and running yet but will be by the end of the year. For more details please feel free to contact me at oilbeefhooked2806@yahoo.com

ROVRabbit

May 8, 2011 at 10:15 pm #30863

Andy Shiers
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Yeah well they always were very "special" over there!

The best 😀

May 10, 2011 at 1:37 pm #30872

Greg Udulutch
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I guess maybe I was referring to a tooling tech? still learning the civ. lingo for this field.
All my oil field experience was land based (a few years between hitches in the NAV), most of my sea time was either on large old sailing ship yards "Tenders, AD15" saw the world at 12 knots! or on Salvage ships, again saw the world at 12 knots, or a white knuckle 50 knot riverine gun boat up and down the rivers in Iraq, which I didn’t get to see much, had my head down trying not to get it shot off!
In the Oil Field hierarchy/food chain where do the ROV guys stand? I worked as a crane operator and it was up the food chain a bit so there was not much BS sent my way!

May 11, 2011 at 6:16 am #30871

Anonymous
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The pay will be crap and the vessel will probably be shite but, you’ll get experience.
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