Explore commercial diving and other careers in the diving industry.
Diving has many different fields, with professional opportunities in each. Here are a few:
Commercial diving: working on underwater structures, including assembly, cutting, welding and other tasks. It includes shallow-water and saturation (deep) diving. Practitioners are known as commercial divers. Courses are offered by institutions such as SENAI and Divers University, among others.
Recreational diving: diving for enjoyment, the most popular form of diving. It can also become a career, such as teaching or guiding divers in adventure tourism.
Technical diving: practiced for enjoyment or professionally as a technical diving instructor. Brazil's Ministry of Tourism classifies it as an extreme sport. Greater risks require more complex training and equipment.
Public safety diving: recovering people and objects, such as the work carried out by fire departments.
Scientific diving: used in ocean research, including the work of marine biologists.
Military diving: combat divers serving in the armed forces.