Job Description
Responsibilities
- Descends into water with the aid of a tender, communicates with surface by signal line or telephone.
- Inspects docks and bottoms of propellers on ships.
- Repair vessels below water line, replacing missing or leaking rivets with bolts.
- Caulks leaks in ships or caissons.
- Guides placement of pilings for structures such as docks, bridges, cofferdams and oil drilling platforms.
- Lays, inspects and repairs underwater pipelines, cables and sewers using handtools.
- Cuts and welds steel, using oxyacetylene cutting torch & arch welding equipment, utilizing balloon device for working underwater.
- Cleans debris from intake & discharge strainers.
- Removes obstructions from marine railway or launching ways with pneumatic and power handtools.
- Places rigging around sunken objects & hooks rigging to crane lines.
- Rigs explosives for underwater demolitions.
- Searches for lost, mis...