Also called: Dive School Instructor
Teaches students the skills to work as commercial divers: welding, rigging, and safety underwater.
An instructor runs morning classes on dive physics, then supervises students in a training tank cutting steel underwater.
Certificate, about 3 years after high school. Years of commercial diving experience.
Ways in: Trade school, Certification. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Commercial Diving (trade school).
Growing slowly (about 0% over 10 years). BLS 2025-35 projection band for SOC 25-1194: Little or no change.
Low risk for 10 years. Video and simulators supplement class, but supervising students cutting steel in a dive tank stays human.
Classes: Physical education and swimming, Welding CTE class, Speech.
Official data: O*NET occupation 25-1194.
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