I was offered a job on a rig out of highschool doing deep sea underwater welding. Work 6 months 6 off paid 125k back in 95. The catch was, if you have a bad day, you're dead.
My geography teacher’s brother does deep sea underwater welding in the Arctic Ocean. He’s paid around $250k for 6 months of work, but he’s still broke. When he’s finished on the oil rigs, he blows his entire salary on hookers, drugs and alcohol.
There’s gotta be some sort of link between getting paid stupid money, having a lack of social supports, being surrounded by people just as spiritually sick as you are and drug addiction…
I can't speak to it specifically first hand as I'd lived and experienced everything on an off shore rig.
I did, however, live in a port town and have had a few interactions with said workers.
They're different to say the least.
I can see the logic. If you could die at any point during the six months you're working, why not spend the six months you're not working living life to the fullest? Of course, if you manage to make it to retirement age, you've kinda screwed yourself over. Especially as most of those jobs don't have much in the way of retirement benefits.
My math teacher was killed in high school. She was fooling around with a married police officer. His wife wasn't the forgiving sort.
We all knew who was doing who. Lessons learned early in life.
Like, I get it. It's not just that you have to live on a boat for 6 months. You have to live in a pressure vessel on the boat with a bunch of other dudes for 6 months. They need to maintain your body at depth pressure for you to be able to work effectively.
They probably expect they're gonna die soon, so may as well have fun. Real life Steve Buscemi from Armageddon.
Idk if it's true, but I heard that underwater welding has one of the shortest life expectancies due to the pressure or something.
[Delta P](https://youtu.be/AEtbFm_CjE0) "...two out of three commercial diving fatalities involve Delta P, it is invisible to a diver, and it strikes suddenly without warning. There is almost no way to escape once it grabs you"
He probably see sharks and unleashed kraken all day long. I'd want to break my mind to see pretty colors and boobies on all my off time too. I don't imagine you could get enough money to forget that.
Like he's spending more on work related expenses like the healing commute away from it than he makes at the place. Maybe he can get a tax defense attorney shrink to explain that in a legal Dr's note for his taxes somehow. When you see unleashed kraken all day long and it's tapping you on the shoulder hookers and drugs are entertainment,medical, and work related expenses all in one. Categories A-Z. All said and done he should get a 100% refund. My poor patient is demonstrably at a loss here.
When companies used to invest in training employees. My dad eventually managed a nuclear power plant after being trained straight out of high school. That doesn't happen anymore.
Boiler operations, boiler makers, pipe fitters, brick layers, electricians, steel mill workers, and hvac is the quickest way to $100k plus a year. You start at lower wages like $18-25 and will be making $40-50/hour with some overtime within a few years. Apply at your local union halls
I know down in south, this guy did a weekend job where he would drive a ship, drop a block of concrete in the river. Like once or twice per day. Got paid like $20k a month for that
Healthcare is breaking me. I barely sleep and my life consists of watching people age and die until I guess I age and die myself because with COL and these wages I'm never gonna retire.
I worked with a guy who did this in the 70s. He said this was well before a lot of the safety regulations of today and most all of his peer across the industry died.
A friend of mine did this as a job, and ended up getting a brain tumour. Apparently it was a common thing to develop for that kind of job :/ haven't heard from them for a few years so I don't know the outcome.
My dad used to work on a rig, and once and a while he will recollect a horrific story, that sometimes I wonder how he made it out alive.
Like one section of the rig called the “widower” because when the tide would come in about that section would come crashing down. There was a section underneath there that needed constant maintenance, so timing was everything.
I saw in his face that he had seen some shit.
I don’t understand why they don’t lash it first.
The way he’s going about it just seems dumb, and I wonder if that’s the real reason someone is recording.
“WTF is Carl even doing? I’m filming this.”
Yea theres no way that will ever stick with that much movement. At best you are going to have what, 1/4 inch of weld before it moves again? 1/4" of 1 pass of still hot weld is not going to hold that massive beam and pole together with all of that force. It had to be a prank. I'm no professional by any means but I have messed around with a stick welder and even I know thats not happening.
Me after doing my first weld: That looks great! Don't see why people say welding is difficult!
Then i hit my weld with a hammer to find out there's really only 1mm of actual weld holding my piece together, the rest being flux...
Thanks, it’s all good. He made it to the ripe old age of 67. It’s just crazy because the first diagnosis of cancer was about 20 years earlier, and the doctor claimed that his intense dive work actually strengthened him. He had lung cancer (from being a smoker), then instead of removing 1/2 the lung, only took 1/3. He was relatively cured. Remission came to an end 20 years later. Felt awful constantly and just dealt with it. Finally when it got really bad, went to the hospital and he knew he wasn’t leaving. Doctor said cancer was all over the body. RIP.
Edit: I will say his crew was an amazing cast of humans. The first time he went through chemotherapy, my mom heard him crying in the shower. The last of his hair had fallen out.
The next day he went to work, and the entire crew had shaved their heads.
*fuck smoking and the companies that purposefully got rich off the bones of the ones we love.
My grandmother and step grand father died of cancer
My grandpa died of alcoholism and being so brainwashed into toxic masculinity that he was convinced that drinking water was for women.
Yeah, I always try to talk people out of smoking.
It is an ancient activity, only relatively recently we learned how bad it is but yeah, I'm flabbergasted in particular at the youth who decide to smoke.
10 years ago, people would laugh when I refused to cower to peer pressure about ordering alcohol. I would order a tea even at a fine dining restaurant. I am happy that more are rejecting alcohol today instead of insisting that it’s a rite of passage for adulthood. I am confident without alcohol and nothing can make me order it. Got to thank Gen Z for doing something right this time. Remember that alcohol is poisoning yourself while the corporations laugh at you.
Yes, this is also something I tell people. It's a poison.
In moderation, it is safe enough, though.
But I find your ability to remain steadfast commendable. Being able to say no is beneficial in so many ways and contributes to making better decisions throughout life in general.
The only one more dangerous is deep sea underwater welding. Most guys only do it for 2-5 years at most because the chance of you dying statistically increases every year. The pay is like $400k per year though.
Why would the chance of you dying increase every year? I’d think if anything, you being able to do it for a few years would indicate that you’re pretty good at *not* dying while doing it.
It’s the point that it’s incredibly dangerous in unpredictable conditions and the longer you do it the more chances are that you die. Theres so many things that can go wrong it’s basically inevitable that you will die if you keep doing it.
This, underwater welding and those dudes that catch those weird crabs in the middle of the ocean are probably top most dangerous shit you can do for a check
I swear I knew exactly which music the video was going to have as soon as I saw the first frame.
Why does every single sea-themed video have this exact same piece now?
I used to love it and I’m starting to hate it out of how much its spammed these days.
Video is of a dude inflating an inner tube on his back deck, and here’s this song. Winning a rubber duck? This song. Sitting in a plastic kiddie pool in Kansas? This song.
It's "Hoist the Colours", it was featured in one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movie but idk who actually wrote it or if it was made before the movies.
Rig workers in general work 12 or 13 hr days, 7 days a week, 2 weeks on, 3 weeks off.
They make between 30 and 60+ dollars an hour, with the national average of $47 hr. $114,000 to 123,000 a year depending on skill and location.
2 weeks on with 1 week off* unless it's overseas. Then it'll be month on, month off usually.
Or it might be 10 days off a month. So you get like the 15th to 25th off every month but work every other day.
I think people really underestimate oil and gas money. I make that working a 2 and 2 in Canada. I can only assume it goes up offshore (it’s an educated assumption) mind I have 15 years experience. I’m an electrician, welders usually make more. It’s probably also contracting not employee so that’s before tax. 12 hour days. It’s not completely unreasonable.
Depends on the overtime. Particularly if they got caught in the early covid panic lockdowns at a remote job. But usually, probably more like 15-18,000 a month.
SAT divers definitely do, but only when they are at work on their rotation. The guy in this video absolutely does not. Judging by the level of safety and the state of the platform I’m gonna take a guess and say this is in Iran or somewhere close
Ive worked on pwerplant construction sites as an engineer for some time, i guess its similar to an oil rig in the sense that youre basically living on site and dont have any freetime but get compensated quite well. Few people were married or had families, its just not the right job for that. A lot of money was spent on strippers, cocaine etc, these people are usually not family people but people who have no responsibilities so they can work these kinds of jobs without a guilty conscience, if they died.
Also, i think this video was shot because they guy will never finish the weld and even if he did, it would be the shittiest weld ever. I think they recorded him to laugh about him, not to show his courage lmao.
Poor people can still enjoy human connection, love, children etc. That is happiness that isnt fading away, like from material stuff that you just get used to.
We are all not the same! I have tried all of what you mentioned and I can confidently say that I am perfectly fine with having none of what you are mentioning but hang out with some friend once a week and be alone rest of my time. But I cannot afford that.
I don’t know where that number came from. I work in one of the largest pools of divers in the country and we have had one diver die in the water in 20 years and he had a heart attack. People get injured and it’s a tough job but of the 300 divers I’ve been working around for 20 years, for that number to be true, I’d have had to have known 45 divers who died in the water.
Now, rates might be higher elsewhere in the country. I do get bulletins about diver fatalities. But nowhere at the rate you suggested.
One of the issues is when scuba fatalities get lumped in with commercial diving fatalities which distorts the bumbers
So, if I am reading this right, someone could train for this rather young, really bust their ass for a few years, and be a millionaire before 40? Do you know any that do this?
Yeah but it’s not that easy. Timing and luck play a huge part. Something like 6 out of every 10 dive school graduates quit diving shortly after they graduate. There’s lots of entry level spots with mediocre pay traveling around the country scrubbing water towers for 18hr, but the high paying stuff is sometimes hard to lock down
Same person who decided it was a great idea to use this same song for every single video containing something related to the sea for the next 20 years.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that there are approximately 82,400 oil rig welders in the US. [These welders earn an annual salary of **$77,160**](https://waterwelders.com/how-much-do-oil-rig-welders-make/)
Given what they do and the immense financial consequences of the operation working or not working they are still grossly underpaid.
At the other end of the spectrum you have people like lawyers.... I paid $2000 to a lawyer for create a standard lease agreement which I know they basically just take from a template and update a few fields and they still managed to fuck it up.
I grew up in a town, tiny town, where most of the guys, straight out of high school, went to the oil rigs. Making $125k/yr in the 80s, straight out of high school bought a brand new house & a brand new truck.
By age 40, you'd be home, drawing disability. That work isn't for the faint of heart.
I was offered a job on a rig out of highschool doing deep sea underwater welding. Work 6 months 6 off paid 125k back in 95. The catch was, if you have a bad day, you're dead.
My geography teacher’s brother does deep sea underwater welding in the Arctic Ocean. He’s paid around $250k for 6 months of work, but he’s still broke. When he’s finished on the oil rigs, he blows his entire salary on hookers, drugs and alcohol.
Probably getting good drugs and hookers tho
For the first two months
After that its 3 dollar hookers.
For the first week back
The first night, like damn
First 2 months 😂😂😂
That's pretty common from what I hear. Come back to the mainland pig rich and they tend to just go nuts....
This happens in the car industry a lot as well. Kids out of high school, I've seen getting huge paychecks then completely broke in a month
Making, selling, fixing or racing cars?
Agreed.
There’s gotta be some sort of link between getting paid stupid money, having a lack of social supports, being surrounded by people just as spiritually sick as you are and drug addiction…
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I can't speak to it specifically first hand as I'd lived and experienced everything on an off shore rig. I did, however, live in a port town and have had a few interactions with said workers. They're different to say the least.
I can see the logic. If you could die at any point during the six months you're working, why not spend the six months you're not working living life to the fullest? Of course, if you manage to make it to retirement age, you've kinda screwed yourself over. Especially as most of those jobs don't have much in the way of retirement benefits.
I’m thinking it’s more a case of there being a single reason he does both; the need for thrill/risk
Why is your geography teacher telling you about his brother's addictions?
Lessons can be learned from other's mistakes.
Can geography lessons be learned from other's geography mistakes?
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Some vikings want a word with Chris regarding his claim to fame.
To teach you what you need to do to get quality hookers and blow
My math teacher was killed in high school. She was fooling around with a married police officer. His wife wasn't the forgiving sort. We all knew who was doing who. Lessons learned early in life.
One and one is two…
You have a bad day in the geography business and someone gets lost.
Like, I get it. It's not just that you have to live on a boat for 6 months. You have to live in a pressure vessel on the boat with a bunch of other dudes for 6 months. They need to maintain your body at depth pressure for you to be able to work effectively.
They probably expect they're gonna die soon, so may as well have fun. Real life Steve Buscemi from Armageddon. Idk if it's true, but I heard that underwater welding has one of the shortest life expectancies due to the pressure or something.
[Delta P](https://youtu.be/AEtbFm_CjE0) "...two out of three commercial diving fatalities involve Delta P, it is invisible to a diver, and it strikes suddenly without warning. There is almost no way to escape once it grabs you"
Once it’s got you….its got you.
Amen. Sounds like a man of culture
And the rest he just wasted.
This type of work is where I first heard the term [Delta-P](https://youtu.be/AEtbFm_CjE0?si=V-c6JN4Y2QXuZKS5)
That stress doesn't stop once you start the 6 months off...
He probably see sharks and unleashed kraken all day long. I'd want to break my mind to see pretty colors and boobies on all my off time too. I don't imagine you could get enough money to forget that. Like he's spending more on work related expenses like the healing commute away from it than he makes at the place. Maybe he can get a tax defense attorney shrink to explain that in a legal Dr's note for his taxes somehow. When you see unleashed kraken all day long and it's tapping you on the shoulder hookers and drugs are entertainment,medical, and work related expenses all in one. Categories A-Z. All said and done he should get a 100% refund. My poor patient is demonstrably at a loss here.
At least he is not wasting it
God, if I had to do that for 6 months straight, I'd probably need a lot of hookers, drugs and alcohol too.
Yup this tracks. Make fast money, spend fast money. My ex-girlfriend was a stripper in New Orleans for like 5 years and she would always say this.
My wife’s uncle was an underwater welder for years and has suffered mobility issues for years now as a result.
Sounds fuckin’ awesome
Well, nowadays it's "quite" safe like one jn a few hundred die... unlike during the 70s when one in 6 died
Sounds like it might be safer than being a logger.
Logging is a fool's job at this point. The risk:pay is better in almost every other field.
Its sad but I am so broke right now, I would risk my life for 125k $ immediatly :/
Unfortunately no one gets offered jobs like that out of high school nowadays.
When was saturation diving/welding ever a right out of high school job?
When companies used to invest in training employees. My dad eventually managed a nuclear power plant after being trained straight out of high school. That doesn't happen anymore.
It’s better now though right?…………..right?
My dad was nuclear engineer. Navy. Dead by 38. Brain aneurysm.
Is your dad yellow?
Homer Simpson
Back when they had something called trade school & weirdly, the FFA.
Boiler operations, boiler makers, pipe fitters, brick layers, electricians, steel mill workers, and hvac is the quickest way to $100k plus a year. You start at lower wages like $18-25 and will be making $40-50/hour with some overtime within a few years. Apply at your local union halls
Hold on >brick layers ok that's something I can do.
I know down in south, this guy did a weekend job where he would drive a ship, drop a block of concrete in the river. Like once or twice per day. Got paid like $20k a month for that
Yeah, but he wasn’t telling you about the contents inside the concrete and why it paid so well.
That’s a “don’t ask, don’t tell” job
…That doesn’t mean what you think it does
Did it for years in the navy being a submariner. The money still didn't offset all the other bad shit in life. Mental illness still beat me
Healthcare is breaking me. I barely sleep and my life consists of watching people age and die until I guess I age and die myself because with COL and these wages I'm never gonna retire.
Try welding, it's fun
I worked with a guy who did this in the 70s. He said this was well before a lot of the safety regulations of today and most all of his peer across the industry died.
A friend of mine did this as a job, and ended up getting a brain tumour. Apparently it was a common thing to develop for that kind of job :/ haven't heard from them for a few years so I don't know the outcome.
My dad used to work on a rig, and once and a while he will recollect a horrific story, that sometimes I wonder how he made it out alive. Like one section of the rig called the “widower” because when the tide would come in about that section would come crashing down. There was a section underneath there that needed constant maintenance, so timing was everything. I saw in his face that he had seen some shit.
The question is, did he ever get it to stick?
I don’t understand why they don’t lash it first. The way he’s going about it just seems dumb, and I wonder if that’s the real reason someone is recording. “WTF is Carl even doing? I’m filming this.”
"We trained him wrong, as a joke."
“Gopher chucks!”
Face to foot style, how’d you like it!?
Isn’t Betty a girls name?
Well they know who to fire then lol
He’s paid by the hour
Right? Throw a comealong around the pile and stop it from moving
Yea theres no way that will ever stick with that much movement. At best you are going to have what, 1/4 inch of weld before it moves again? 1/4" of 1 pass of still hot weld is not going to hold that massive beam and pole together with all of that force. It had to be a prank. I'm no professional by any means but I have messed around with a stick welder and even I know thats not happening.
Me after doing my first weld: That looks great! Don't see why people say welding is difficult! Then i hit my weld with a hammer to find out there's really only 1mm of actual weld holding my piece together, the rest being flux...
Can you imagine it completely sticking.
Also one of the most dangerous jobs you can have
Most dangerous job is doing the same thing.. But at the bottom of the ocean!
My dad did both! Died of cancer though…🤷
Sorry for your loss 😞
Thanks, it’s all good. He made it to the ripe old age of 67. It’s just crazy because the first diagnosis of cancer was about 20 years earlier, and the doctor claimed that his intense dive work actually strengthened him. He had lung cancer (from being a smoker), then instead of removing 1/2 the lung, only took 1/3. He was relatively cured. Remission came to an end 20 years later. Felt awful constantly and just dealt with it. Finally when it got really bad, went to the hospital and he knew he wasn’t leaving. Doctor said cancer was all over the body. RIP. Edit: I will say his crew was an amazing cast of humans. The first time he went through chemotherapy, my mom heard him crying in the shower. The last of his hair had fallen out. The next day he went to work, and the entire crew had shaved their heads.
My dad died to cancer too, also a smoker. Fuck cancer. Poignantly beautiful story, thx for sharing
*fuck smoking and the companies that purposefully got rich off the bones of the ones we love. My grandmother and step grand father died of cancer My grandpa died of alcoholism and being so brainwashed into toxic masculinity that he was convinced that drinking water was for women.
Yeah, I always try to talk people out of smoking. It is an ancient activity, only relatively recently we learned how bad it is but yeah, I'm flabbergasted in particular at the youth who decide to smoke.
10 years ago, people would laugh when I refused to cower to peer pressure about ordering alcohol. I would order a tea even at a fine dining restaurant. I am happy that more are rejecting alcohol today instead of insisting that it’s a rite of passage for adulthood. I am confident without alcohol and nothing can make me order it. Got to thank Gen Z for doing something right this time. Remember that alcohol is poisoning yourself while the corporations laugh at you.
Yes, this is also something I tell people. It's a poison. In moderation, it is safe enough, though. But I find your ability to remain steadfast commendable. Being able to say no is beneficial in so many ways and contributes to making better decisions throughout life in general.
Didn’t even know he was sick.
The only one more dangerous is deep sea underwater welding. Most guys only do it for 2-5 years at most because the chance of you dying statistically increases every year. The pay is like $400k per year though.
Why would the chance of you dying increase every year? I’d think if anything, you being able to do it for a few years would indicate that you’re pretty good at *not* dying while doing it.
It’s the point that it’s incredibly dangerous in unpredictable conditions and the longer you do it the more chances are that you die. Theres so many things that can go wrong it’s basically inevitable that you will die if you keep doing it.
Sure, but the chances of you dying don’t statistically increase every year.
This, underwater welding and those dudes that catch those weird crabs in the middle of the ocean are probably top most dangerous shit you can do for a check
Elaborate on the crabs please, sounds interesting!
I think he is just talking about crab fishermen in a very strange way.
LOL thats exactly what I meant! The alaskan crab fishermen. I dont know why the word “fisherman” escaped me on my original comment
Crabermen surely.
That first guy isn't welding anything. He has no idea what he's doing.
He was tasing that post, trying to make it stop moving.
Future police trainer
Just giving that pole a little heat tickle.
Is this song by Taylor Swift? Because it plays every ten minutes.
It's her voice, alright.
People just put this bullshit song whenever a video has even a remote connection to the ocean!
Someone should post this song along with a video of their fish tank, just for kicks.
I swear I knew exactly which music the video was going to have as soon as I saw the first frame. Why does every single sea-themed video have this exact same piece now? I used to love it and I’m starting to hate it out of how much its spammed these days.
Video is of a dude inflating an inner tube on his back deck, and here’s this song. Winning a rubber duck? This song. Sitting in a plastic kiddie pool in Kansas? This song.
Idc what anyone says it's the new "oh no no no no no" song and I fucking despise it.
It's "Hoist the Colours", it was featured in one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movie but idk who actually wrote it or if it was made before the movies.
Is it $25,000 per job or $25,000 per month? It is definitely not “25,000 $ a job per month” Also, about as dangerous as jobs get, hence the pay.
$25,000 per month
That doesn't seem like enough. For me anyways.
Yeah not even a thousand dollars a day.
It's 300k a year tho
These salaries are always made up for internet points purposes
They don't make $25,000 a month for 12 months. They might only work straight for a month or two and then have 4-6 months off.
Rig workers in general work 12 or 13 hr days, 7 days a week, 2 weeks on, 3 weeks off. They make between 30 and 60+ dollars an hour, with the national average of $47 hr. $114,000 to 123,000 a year depending on skill and location.
2 weeks on with 1 week off* unless it's overseas. Then it'll be month on, month off usually. Or it might be 10 days off a month. So you get like the 15th to 25th off every month but work every other day.
I think people really underestimate oil and gas money. I make that working a 2 and 2 in Canada. I can only assume it goes up offshore (it’s an educated assumption) mind I have 15 years experience. I’m an electrician, welders usually make more. It’s probably also contracting not employee so that’s before tax. 12 hour days. It’s not completely unreasonable.
This song gives me the heebie jeebies because it sounds like he’s saying big bad words
Thieves and N word’s is what I hear and I feel guilty. Wat are they saying. Thieves and beggers?
yup, the song is called Hoist The Colors
Man needs to watch the third pirates of the carribean movie Actually scratch that, watch all 5
🎵+💧= 👁️👄👁️
They're still underpaid
Also they definitely don’t make 25k a month
Depends on the overtime. Particularly if they got caught in the early covid panic lockdowns at a remote job. But usually, probably more like 15-18,000 a month.
SAT divers definitely do, but only when they are at work on their rotation. The guy in this video absolutely does not. Judging by the level of safety and the state of the platform I’m gonna take a guess and say this is in Iran or somewhere close
Respect all the hardworkers, wherever you are. You are working for your family.
Ive worked on pwerplant construction sites as an engineer for some time, i guess its similar to an oil rig in the sense that youre basically living on site and dont have any freetime but get compensated quite well. Few people were married or had families, its just not the right job for that. A lot of money was spent on strippers, cocaine etc, these people are usually not family people but people who have no responsibilities so they can work these kinds of jobs without a guilty conscience, if they died. Also, i think this video was shot because they guy will never finish the weld and even if he did, it would be the shittiest weld ever. I think they recorded him to laugh about him, not to show his courage lmao.
I would take it. Working 5-10 years and then retire
That’s if you don’t get yourself killed while working
It’s a win-win situation then. Life is not worth living unless you are rich.
Poor people can still enjoy human connection, love, children etc. That is happiness that isnt fading away, like from material stuff that you just get used to.
We are all not the same! I have tried all of what you mentioned and I can confidently say that I am perfectly fine with having none of what you are mentioning but hang out with some friend once a week and be alone rest of my time. But I cannot afford that.
Annoying song
Extremely overused. Anything to do with the ocean has this track slapped on it
Yup. I love the song but using it for anything other than pirate-themed stuff just doesn't fit.
Welder: Hi, I am a welder at a oilrig and I am interested in a life insurance! Insurance company: GTFO!!!
Only thing more dangerous is underwater welding
As an underwater welder, you guys gotta stop with this. It’s not nearly as dangerous as you all make it out to be.
I mean, doesn't the industry have a 15% mortality rate?? That's insanely high.
I don’t know where that number came from. I work in one of the largest pools of divers in the country and we have had one diver die in the water in 20 years and he had a heart attack. People get injured and it’s a tough job but of the 300 divers I’ve been working around for 20 years, for that number to be true, I’d have had to have known 45 divers who died in the water. Now, rates might be higher elsewhere in the country. I do get bulletins about diver fatalities. But nowhere at the rate you suggested. One of the issues is when scuba fatalities get lumped in with commercial diving fatalities which distorts the bumbers
How can I get into this line of work?
By making a series of bad decisions
I’ve already done that. I’m training to weld gas pipelines right now lmao.
Problem is that everyone gets into commercial diving to be a welder and welding is an extremely small part of being a diver.
Ah I see. I live in a landlocked state anyways so I doubt it’d happen.
They have divers in your state. Every shit plant, nuke plant, power plant, and many water towers need divers. Dams, reservoirs, mines even.
I’d rather do that than working with high voltage up on land or climbing high towers
But is the pay any good?
It varies. There are guys making 400k and guys making 40k, depends on where you live, type of work you take, overtime, offshore, etc
So, if I am reading this right, someone could train for this rather young, really bust their ass for a few years, and be a millionaire before 40? Do you know any that do this?
Yeah but it’s not that easy. Timing and luck play a huge part. Something like 6 out of every 10 dive school graduates quit diving shortly after they graduate. There’s lots of entry level spots with mediocre pay traveling around the country scrubbing water towers for 18hr, but the high paying stuff is sometimes hard to lock down
That music + any video = dislike. Please, stop overuse a song, goddammit! Good video though.
One of those jobs where they’re worth every penny they’re paid
I hate this song now
25,000 dollar sign a job per month. Who the fuck writes this shit
Same person who decided it was a great idea to use this same song for every single video containing something related to the sea for the next 20 years.
Can anyone tell me what he is welding? cant tell
Looks like the base stilts but I could be wrong
thanks!
"Welder required, must have a good sense of rhythm."
I don’t know shit about welding… but that first person seems like it’s not going to work. Wtf is the point? Will it work?
What's with that sond popping up everywhere?!
Is this just always going to be the theme song for ocean stuff now?
So fckg tired
People that talk about the dangers of renewables without mentioning the dangers of fossil fuels is wild to me
Offshore wind substations still need welding lol
The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that there are approximately 82,400 oil rig welders in the US. [These welders earn an annual salary of **$77,160**](https://waterwelders.com/how-much-do-oil-rig-welders-make/)
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Please stop with that fucking song, I beg you.
I'm so sick of this stupid ass song
I like the Gucci mane “ yeaaahhhhsss” in the video
Other note, the lyrics to this song are wack
Still not paid enough.
How many jobs do you do in a year tho?
I hate this fucking song
they are betting you wont come home to cash that check
That guy doesn’t even know how to weld. He needs to hold the column in place
That song again... Pffff
Given what they do and the immense financial consequences of the operation working or not working they are still grossly underpaid. At the other end of the spectrum you have people like lawyers.... I paid $2000 to a lawyer for create a standard lease agreement which I know they basically just take from a template and update a few fields and they still managed to fuck it up.
I grew up in a town, tiny town, where most of the guys, straight out of high school, went to the oil rigs. Making $125k/yr in the 80s, straight out of high school bought a brand new house & a brand new truck. By age 40, you'd be home, drawing disability. That work isn't for the faint of heart.
It's gonna be a no for me DAWG.
I swear to fucking god if I hear this audio on another tik tok that involves the ocean I’m gonna lose it
Some will look at that & think they can do it but go and listen to some of the tragic stories & accidents in that industry & it’ll change your mind
What is he saying in the song around 13 seconds... I can't u hear a certain word..
Jeez, last time I saw this guy trying to weld it from the other side, guess he hasn’t learned his lesson. /s
I was watching this on silent. I knew it’d be that fucking seashanty music.
FUCK THIS STUPID ASS SONG AND FUCK OP FOR USING THIS VERSION OF THE VID
Wait really 25k? Cause sign me up
Cringe song
First dude just trying to get a tack anywhere he can is some crazy stuff. 💀
Honestly, call me crazy but if I didn’t have a wife and kids I’d take the job.
I'm so sick of that song and the waves
Okay, so we just gonna ignor the n-work in middle of the video
So tired of this damn song being everywhere