Underwater Treasure Hunting - SCUBA Divers Find Salvage Diving Rewarding
The world’s oceans take up approximately 70% of the Earth’s surface. Imagine how much stuff lies underneath it. Since the beginning of time the waters of the world have been an unexplored realm that has remained mostly untouched until recently. The invention of scuba has opened up the possibilities of not only exploring, learning, and enjoying the underwater world, but also recovering what has been lost and hidden beneath its deep expanses.
Treasure hunting has a mysterious ring when it rolls off your tongue. It’s an intriguing diving job that will take you to the far regions of the earth in search of buried treasure, but will also have you huddled in the corner of the world’s best libraries researching everything and anything about your newest treasure quest.
Countless hours of intense research will often lead you to buried treasures that have been lost for centuries. It’s a profession that is truly hit or miss. The majority of the time you will come up empty handed, but when you do find the lost treasures of long departed pirates you will be more than pleased with yourself.
Unfortunately, treasure hunting is more of a hobby than an occupation. Being the Indiana Jones of the seas is definitely a lucrative hobby if your research is correct, but it is just as likely that it will be wrong. That is why it is important to have a “real” job that pays the bills and puts food on the table.
If you want to be a treasure hunter, which we all do, a great day job to have is that of a salvage diver. Salvage diving is the art of recovering things from underwater. It may be a car that ran off an icy road in the mountains of Colorado or a millionaire’s yacht that sank off the tropical paradise of Tobago.
Water is everywhere and that is why you can work as a salvage diver absolutely anywhere. Salvage diving is fun and takes plenty of skills that are not only fun to learn, but are fun to apply to your cool career.
You’ll be using lift bags, ropes, and who knows what else to recover planes, cars, boats, people, and anything that sinks. Your job is to first locate whatever has sunk beneath the water’s surface. Next dive down to find it. Then figure out the best way to bring that sunken object back to the surface and to its rightful owner. And then your job is done… until someone else sinks something valuable.
Salvage diving is great because you are guaranteed an adventure ever time you go dive. You will face extreme conditions - cold, currents, and limited visibility. You will have success and you will have failure, but you have to take it all in stride. That is part of being a salvage diver.
To get started as a diver, you obviously need to become a certified diver through one of the main diving organizations. But to pursue the best training to work in the salvage diving world you should look into working with the Navy, Coast Guard, or the police. These are the most likely people to deal with hauling a yacht back to the surface or finding a lost car. When you work for one of these organizations, you will make about $35,000 a year - not bad for spending most of your time underwater doing something that makes you happy.
In this dive career you will work hard, the hours will be irregular, and you will be faced with intense situations. At the same time salvage diving is a job that keeps you on your toes, your adrenaline pumping, and your smile grinning from ear to ear.
Salvage diving gives you all the necessary skills to live the good life as a professional SCUBA diver. It also gives you the skills to pursue the hobby of a lifetime - treasure hunting. Salvage diving is a great career for someone with a curious desire for exploration and discovery. Just remember the motto of all salvage diving treasure hunters: If it’s worth looking for, it’s worth finding.
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Lisa Jenkins and writing partner Derek Lennon are gurus of far flung adventure jobs and career opportunities. Look for their work on JobMonkey, a free website covering many popular summer job opportunities and offbeat careers. Derek is trained in technical diving and writes about diving jobs around the world for oil companies, salvage operations, and recreational dive operators. JobMonkey includes an active job board and hundreds of pages of information about seasonal jobs and offbeat careers.
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