Underwater Treasure Hunting - SCUBA Divers Find Salvage Diving Rewarding

The world's oceans take up approximately 70%your cool career.
of the Earth's surface. Imagine how much stuffYou'll be using lift bags, ropes, and who knows
lies underneath it. Since the beginning of time thewhat else to recover planes, cars, boats, people,
waters of the world have been an unexploredand anything that sinks. Your job is to first locate
realm that has remained mostly untouched untilwhatever has sunk beneath the water's surface.
recently. The invention of scuba has opened upNext dive down to find it. Then figure out the
the possibilities of not only exploring, learning, andbest way to bring that sunken object back to the
enjoying the underwater world, but alsosurface and to its rightful owner. And then your
recovering what has been lost and hidden beneathjob is done... until someone else sinks something
its deep expanses.valuable.
Treasure hunting has a mysterious ring when itSalvage diving is great because you are
rolls off your tongue. It's an intriguing diving jobguaranteed an adventure ever time you go dive.
that will take you to the far regions of the earthYou will face extreme conditions - cold, currents,
in search of buried treasure, but will also have youand limited visibility. You will have success and you
huddled in the corner of the world's best librarieswill have failure, but you have to take it all in
researching everything and anything about yourstride. That is part of being a salvage diver.
newest treasure quest.To get started as a diver, you obviously need to
Countless hours of intense research will often leadbecome a certified diver through one of the main
you to buried treasures that have been lost fordiving organizations. But to pursue the best
centuries. It's a profession that is truly hit or miss.training to work in the salvage diving world you
The majority of the time you will come up emptyshould look into working with the Navy, Coast
handed, but when you do find the lost treasuresGuard, or the police. These are the most likely
of long departed pirates you will be more thanpeople to deal with hauling a yacht back to the
pleased with yourself.surface or finding a lost car. When you work for
Unfortunately, treasure hunting is more of aone of these organizations, you will make about
hobby than an occupation. Being the Indiana Jones$35,000 a year - not bad for spending most of
of the seas is definitely a lucrative hobby if youryour time underwater doing something that
research is correct, but it is just as likely that itmakes you happy.
will be wrong. That is why it is important to haveIn this dive career you will work hard, the hours
a "real" job that pays the bills and puts food onwill be irregular, and you will be faced with intense
the table.situations. At the same time salvage diving is a
If you want to be a treasure hunter, which we alljob that keeps you on your toes, your adrenaline
do, a great day job to have is that of a salvagepumping, and your smile grinning from ear to ear.
diver. Salvage diving is the art of recovering thingsSalvage diving gives you all the necessary skills to
from underwater. It may be a car that ran off anlive the good life as a professional SCUBA diver. It
icy road in the mountains of Colorado or aalso gives you the skills to pursue the hobby of a
millionaire's yacht that sank off the tropicallifetime - treasure hunting. Salvage diving is a
paradise of Tobago.great career for someone with a curious desire
Water is everywhere and that is why you canfor exploration and discovery. Just remember the
work as a salvage diver absolutely anywhere.motto of all salvage diving treasure hunters: If it's
Salvage diving is fun and takes plenty of skills thatworth looking for, it's worth finding.
are not only fun to learn, but are fun to apply to