Underwater Welding Schools

If you love the water, underwater welding may be a career option for you. Underwater welders perform installation and repairs of such things as aging bridges, nuclear power plants, vessels and pipelines.

Most agree that the most important part of underwater welding is all the steps that lead up to the actual welding, thus becoming a certified commercial diver is usually a first step. Below are several underwater welding schools you might wish to consider:

Diver's Academy International

Located in southern New Jersey minutes from Atlantic City, Divers Academy International (The Academy) offers a comprehensive program that prepares and places commercial divers around the world. The program is five-months long, providing graduates with multiple high-level certifications and hundreds of clock hours of experience combined with classroom training. The program includes classes on commercial scuba, dive tending, underwater projects, underwater cutting and welding, salvage, bridge inspections, underwater photography, and hazardous waste operations and emergency response, to name just a few. You can see that their program would prepare students for all different types of underwater diving careers, including underwater welding.

Contact them at 1-800-238-DIVE, or email them at admissions@diversacademy.com

National Polytechnic College of Engineering and Oceaneering

National Polytechnic is a non-profit higher education institution accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). The school is organized into four divisions, with the College of Oceaneering division focusing on certificate and degree programs pertaining to marine technology, commercial diving, dive medicine, and underwater nondestructive testing and wet welding. Students can earn an Associate of Science degree in Marine Technology. National Polytechnic is located in three locations, with the Wilmington location (in Wilmington, California) offering a degree in Underwater Wet Welding. You can call them for more information at 800-432-3483.

Commercial Diving Academy

Commercial Diving Academy is an underwater welding school located in Jacksonville, Florida, and offers an underwater welding program which consists of an intensive two-week course designed for commercial divers, giving them high quality Manual Metal Arc (MMA) welding skills both above and below water. For more information call them toll-free at 888-974-2232.

Expect to begin your underwater welding career as a diver tender (apprentice diver) initially, which will help you gain practical experience while learning the trade.

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