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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Scott,<br>
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Real commercial work is going to cost you certification so be
prepared to really beef up your fabrication budget. ROV's are the
primary work tool these days so you'll be competing primarily
against them. For non-ROV work you'll be competing against Nuytco
and others of that caliber. The amount of work you get will be
determined by the value your submarine offers for a particular job
and the price point to perform the work. You'll need to honestly
assess the capabilities of your submarine against the competition
to determine if you can compete against them.<br>
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For an odd job, local, not-really-serious but would like to make a
buck, commercial work; just negotiate the best rate you can get
when someone needs your services. Forget about certification and
avoid work that requires such rating. You can follow the lead of
work boats and barges for pricing your services. You likely want
to charge a couple hundred bucks just to hitch up and move the sub
out of the driveway, some fee for fuel and travel expenses, and
some per hour fee for vessel and pilot with something like a 3-4
hour minimum.<br>
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It's a great dream, I'd love to live it, but I think you're
looking at hundreds of thousands to get to the point where you
have a steady revenue stream that makes it financially feasible.
Not impossible, but difficult without lots of capital.<br>
<br>
Jon<br>
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On 4/13/2014 6:51 PM, swaters wrote:<br>
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<div>I know we have some retired commercial divers in psubs. What
kind of work is out there for subs like ours realistically. I
know in order to be effective we need tooling and manipulators.
What are the benifits from the employer to use a sub rather that
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<div>Thanks,</div>
<div>Scott Waters</div>
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