Marine Technology II
Quarter Credits: 24
Length: 20 weeks
Goal: To provide the student diver/welder with skills to become proficient in the wet welding of fillet joints. Coursework consists of lectures in mechanical properties and metallurgy of steels, metallurgy in welding, joint design, electrode selection, and other topics associated with underwater welding. Practical work is extensive, both topside and underwater, and forms the critical component in acquiring mandatory craft skills. Students are tested at the end of the program by undergoing wet welding qualification trials. These qualification trials are in accordance with the internationally recognized underwater welding specification, ANSI/AWS D3.6-93.
Equipment: The WeldTech student will be required to purchase and bring certain equipment to class everyday, including textbooks, welding hood with appropriate lens, leather welding gloves, welding hammer and wire brush, spare lens, work boots, safety glasses, toolbox with personal hand tools, topside work gloves, and welding jacket or cape.
WeldTech training provides the student with additional craft skills in topside and wet welding. These skills enhance employment opportunities for the student desiring to work for diving contractors.