Reply To: Underwater Centre

Hi ROVAP,

Congratulations on the job, that is good news. I must however agree with ROV ned, we are not doom merchants as you say and think. Most of us who bother to spend time answering the many questions of guys who want to be in the industry do actually care and try and pass on good advise.

Each trainee I work with who has come from a school, I ask how many of their class mates get work. Most have said they are one of a few or the only one as they keep touch after leaving. This coupled to the fact that most companies take on between 8 and 20 trainees a year (figures obtained from ROV operating companies) and the fact that agencies do not take anyone with less that 6 months offshore experience (the minimum accepted by one agency) and about 150-200 hours flying (the least accepted by another agency). Compare these figures to the 20-35 plus trainees graduated by Fort William, the old SUBSERV, SUBNET Services and others, and you start to understand that there is not much chasnce of the bulk of trainee rov school graduates actually getting work.

So, I uggest you re-assess your ideas of the doom merchants who post answers and comments to people who ask for information or advice.

Maybe once you havebeen in the industry a fewmonths what we have been saying will make sense.

Good luck.

ROVER22