Commercial diving has potential
There is huge potential for commercial divers and I would like to
invite the educated young to become divers, said Managing Director
DeepSea Commercial Ltd Buddhi Wickramanayake.
He said that most youngsters don’t think there is potential in diving
but there is huge potential and the young and educated should take to it
as a profession.
He said that the peaceful atmosphere in the country will make many
ships call at Colombo and therefore we should be ready to provide
services needed by them in a timely and efficient manner.
If we don’t provide a good service to ships they will go to another
port.
DeepSea Commercial is the only commercial diving operator in the
country to reach depths of 350 feet. High altitude dives are conducted
at locations upto 8,000 feet from sea level. “We are the only mixed gas
decompression dive team in the country”, he said.
The team at DeepSea Commercial is certified by the Association of
Diving Contractors International (ADCI) and Technical Diving
International, USA.The company is the pioneer in offering side scan
sonar services to monitor the seabed, subsea infrastructure and subsea
engineering structures.
Wickramanayake said that they are the sole service provider for
SEA-ME-WE-4 (Southeast Asia-MiddleEast-West Europe-4) optical fibre
cable system and a preferred service provider for DSCN (Dhiraagu
Submarine Cable Network) Optical fibre cable systems in Sri Lanka and in
the Maldives. SEA-ME-WE4 is a 20,000 km long network running from France
to Singapore carrying Internet, voice and data among 16 nations.
DSCN network runs from Colombo to the Maldives and inter-islands.
Wickramanayake has a dive record of 341 Feet (104 metres), done with
Trimix and Nitrox gases. The dive was in Thailand, for a cave
exploration project. He is a mixed gas commercial diver as well as a
Hyperbaric Chamber Operator. Wickramanayake is also a commercial pilot
with multi engine and instrument rating. -SG |