Inside Inshore Diving

Inshore diving is a construction discipline that happens to take place under water. In this opening episode we set out what a professional dive team on a Dutch or Belgian waterway actually does on an ordinary working day: the preparation, the permits, the surface support and the work itself.

We explain why surface-supplied equipment, hard-wired communications and a standby diver are standard on civil projects, how visibility of a few centimetres changes the way a diver works by touch, and why the person on the panel is as important as the person in the water.

It is an introduction for clients, engineers and contractors who commission underwater work but rarely see it — a first look at how inshore diving differs from both recreational diving and offshore operations.