Although ostensibly an overview of career opportunities in commercial diving, this brief low-budget video is mostly just a long commercial for the International Commercial Diving Institute in Wilmington, Delaware. After pointing out that a commercial diver's career "starts here" at the ICDI (as opposed to, say, the Diving Institute of Technology in Seattle, Washington, or any other training facility), the program mixes brief interview clips with divers (often with distracting background noise) and scenes inside ICDI of students undergoing oxygen tolerance testing, learning underwater welding, and being introduced to new surface decompression techniques. The last 4 minutes are devoted to pointing out different options for commercial divers (such as inland, offshore, bridge repair, and power plant inspection work), but it's too little. Not recommended. (R. Pitman)
Discover Commercial Diving: Meeting the Challenge
(1994) 17 min. $22.50. Seawink Productions. PPR. Color cover. Vol. 9, Issue 5
Discover Commercial Diving: Meeting the Challenge
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