Reply To: Sorry to repeat myself and everyone else but…….

Thanks for the advice everyone… I’ve found the doctor off UKOOA’s webpage that is near to me, are there a few types of medical or does the one cover all ares in the world you can work? when I leave the forces I will have a pretty in depth medical to see weather or not they’ve managed to break me over the last 12yrs will that count towards getting passed as fit to go offshore?
You say with my background I could get a start…( I’m not actually from an engineering background but I picked up some qualification on basic electronics fault finding and diagnostics and I’m now part way through this University course in elec & mech engineering science and maths I did get a GCSE in motor vehicle engineering though..ha ha ha) seeing as the Army will pay around half of the £4000 to fort william for the course is it worth me doing at least I will have had some flying time and basic knowledge on BASIC ROV maintenence….does anyone agree some knowledge is better than none….
Thanks again This site beats ANY career advice the Army gives I’ve got some 50yr old woman briefing me up on oil rig work…hmmm the mind boggles!!! 😆

Beagle,

first for medicals, you will need a UKOOA approved medical, not even the Armys one will do. There are different medicals, you need one that will cover the UK and Norwegian/Netherlands sectors, as they require a seperate one. Same goes for Offshore survival, you need to do the full 5 day BOISET course that covers, UK, Norway and Netherlands. One mistake a lot of new people make is to get the basic survival and medicals, only to have to redo them when they get a job.

Most employers do not care if you have or have not got medical/survival, most will put you through it anyway as part of the basic training. Same goes for jabs (Hep A, Hep B, Yellow Fever etc.)

Most advice to people trying to get into ROVs is technical experience and qualifications. If theer are any more technical qualifications that your Army £4000 would be better spent on, go for them first.

If you’re all done with courses and still have £4000 of their money left to spend, then in this case I would say go and do the course. But only in this case 🙂 Normally the advice is its a waste of money, but if its not your money… It will give you an idea of what its like to work with ROVs, you will NOT come out of it an ROV pilot. Also, I would not say that the additional SVQ electrical course that they offer (which costs another few ££££££ extra) is worth it so I wouldnt bother.

Have a look at the FAQ section on here, get your CV together and start getting it out to ROV companies.