Why YOU Should NEVER Weld Underwater

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While it may be a high paying job with some awesome perks, underwater welding is also one of the most dangerous jobs on the planet. Here are 9 things about underwater welding you didn’t know! • SUBSCRIBE for the latest videos: https://goo.gl/7xzjzR • Don't forget to CHECK OUT our latest upload: https://goo.gl/LUB8Xw • 9. Special Training is Required • With any good trade there is some special training involved, and wet welding pays no exception. In order to provide the service, one must be trained in both scuba diving and welding. Yet this is something you don’t need to go to a four-year college for—underwater, the more hands-on experience means the more valuable an employee is. • 8. Cool Tools of the Trade • Underwater welding exposes the worker to the dangers of electricity as typically they use three hundred or four hundred amps of electric current to power their tools! • 7. Underwater Welders Can Help Protect the Environment • Considering the high volume of offshore oil rigs with pipelines that travel through various depths of the ocean, these hazardous monstrosities are always in need of monitoring and repair. • 6. A Way to See the World • The high-risk trade is a service needed all over the world, so the options are limitless with where you can live and travel to get a job done. As the location is adaptable, so is the flexibility, as when one gets tired of the task itself, they can easily become a teacher to those who want to follow the same career path. There is no age limit on who can hold this position, with the only concern being strength and the physical ability to get the job done. • 5. You Can’t Beat Their Office • Due to the dangers and risks involved, wet welding is an absolute last resort, though oftentimes it must be done. These daring divers are responsible for repairing everything from pipelines, offshore drilling rigs, ships, dams, locks, sub-sea habitats, and nuclear power facilities, to name a few. The location is always changing, and the scenery isn't so bad either, as underwater welders are surrounded by their own personal in-office fish tank around the clock. • 4. There are Risks Involved • The main risk of taking on a job in the underwater field is being in the way of an electric current. The risk decreases, as with anything, when you become more aware of your surroundings and environment. Working underwater always poses pressure-related risks as well. For example, decompression related illnesses involve the amount of pressure and gases you will breathe while getting the job done. • 3. It’s High Paying • Essentially wet welding is the same as on land—metals are fused together to repair an immovable structure, but with electricity and water involved. Throw in the possibility of intense pressure threatening to crush the body, and one can see this trade is no fun task. As with any challenging and high-demand position, however, there is a high salary involved. We’re talking base pay that’s around one hundred dollars per hour! Of course, the rate depends on the task itself as well as the depth of the location. • 2. Bubbles can Save Lives or Cause Death • Who thought bubbles could save someone’s life? They are extremely important in underwater welding as a large gaseous bubble typically forms around the welding arc and acts as the diver’s main protectant. Yet while they may help in the welding process, they can also yield grave danger. There are always more bubbles produced than necessary and being underwater creates an uncontrollable and unstable environment; therefore, the bubbles often fly up and block all visibility. Bubbles can be the cause of a completely failed mission as well as the final result of it all collapsing. Do you think you have what it takes? • 1. The Most Dangerous Job in the World? • It’s no secret that underwater the odds are stacked against you. The pressure threatens to restrict and crush your body as giant swells of bubbles block your eyesight and make already dangerous tasks even more life-threatening. So, here are the risks in order of bad to worse…. There is always risk of a welder burning themselves, there is an even higher risk of electrocution, and when it comes to explosions, well, the constant emulsion of H2 and O2 mean that the possibility of an explosion could likely happen at any moment. How many die from this highly specialized mode of underwater construction? —11 a year, and the final cause is always a result of drowning. As there are only approximately 6,500 active underwater welders in the world, 11 per year is a high number; and it’s clear that the life expectancy of an underwater welder is nowhere the same as your typical white-collar office worker, rather, welder-divers die at a rate that is 40 times America’s national average.

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