Clearance diver

[NavyGrunt]

Hey since you guys are experts on finding the physical requirements for selection in these mysterious trades I was hoping you could do the same for clearance diver. I checked the "trades with threads" post and their wasnt one for clearance diver. Im looking for fact here gentlemen. Like the JTF and Sar tech standards posted on this site.

Thanks again.

 

[Alex252]

I really dont know because im not with the forces but if you have OLN and watch Truth, Duty, Valour you should see a show on the occupation. From what i gathered its very difficult.

 

[Dreadnought]

Hey Aaron I just wanted to ask if you are Navres? and what rank you are.  If you are then how long did it take you to get the job offer and what point in the year did you get it?  About the clearance diving thing, I want to be one as well hopefully in the future when I'm done my degree but I was looking on the MARPAC website and under the diving unit they tell you a little bit about the Clearance Diving 341 Course serial 0001.  It says something like a running for 2 miles and then a 3 1/4 mile swim and they dont say anything for pushups and chinups.  I'm guessing it is around 80 to 100 pushups and about 60-70 chinups.  This is a daily routine.  i'm saying that because if you can do that then you are lean and freaking have the stamina it takes to be a clearance diver.  The whole diving thing in the Navy is so vague and when I asked the recruiter for information they did not know nothing at all.  The guys from the unit that I applied for said that a ship's diver for the unit was also a diver for the police force.  I didn't get a chance to talk to him yet because he is very busy pulling dead bodies out of the red.(not suppose to be funny).  Anyways i will talk with him before this year is at an end and I will get the facts straight about the whole diving thing.  My impression that I got about diving with the Canadian forces is that its like those slack-off high paying FedGov Civvie jobs, once you get in they never want to quit because they enjoy all the perks in being in that position.  The MS recruiter told me that there is rare openings at my unit in Winnipeg.

 

[foerestedwarrior]

Just so you know, clearance divier is NOT a direct entry trade, you need a trade before you are even eligable to apply for it.

 

[cgyflames01]

This site might help... http://www.recruiting.forces.gc.ca/engraph/career/tradeinfo_e.aspx?id=1071

 

[aesop081]

If you look at you local BPSO web site...you have to be qualified one of the following to apply for Occupational transfer to Clearance diver:

- Ship's team diver;
- Port inspection diver; or
- Combat diver (i.e. army combat engineers with this qualification)

The key is that you cannot  enter the occupation directly..

 

[NavyGrunt]

If you look at you local BPSO web site...you have to be qualified one of the following to apply for Occupational transfer to Clearance diver:

- Ship's team diver;
- Port inspection diver; or
- Combat diver (i.e. army combat engineers with this qualification)

The key is that you cannot   enter the occupation directly..

Thats interesting. However I wonder what the logic is there? I knew you had to be trade qualified but in a diver trade? thats news. That makes their pool of applicants pretty small. Where did you hear that Aesop?

 

[aesop081]

I used to be combat engineer and know a few guys who were combat divers and OT'ed to clearance diver.  I confirmed the info from several sources like the BPSO's web site here at 17 wing and  old copies of base routine orders.

 

[Inch]

Thats interesting. However I wonder what the logic is there? I knew you had to be trade qualified but in a diver trade? thats news. That makes their pool of applicants pretty small. Where did you hear that Aesop?

The same sort of thing applies to Flight Engineers, IIRC, you have to be a 500 series tech before you can remuster to FE, no one else can apply to be an FE.

That's just the way it is, certain trades require a certain expertise.

Cheers

 

[aesop081]

Yeah...for 091 FE , its 6 years as an AVN tech to apply.  For us AESOp's there are no previous trades requirements but you have to be QL5 Corporal before you can apply.

 

[NavyGrunt]

The same sort of thing applies to Flight Engineers, IIRC, you have to be a 500 series tech before you can remuster to FE, no one else can apply to be an FE.

That's just the way it is, certain trades require a certain expertise.

Cheers

10-4 Thanks for the info even if I dont like the answer  ;D

 

[cgyflames01]

Hey there was a whole episode of Truth, Duty, Valour, dedicated to the clearence diver trade. it will awnser any question you have on clearence diver's.  by the way it was episode 7. http://www.truthdutyvalour.ca/flashindex.htm