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Education, Salary, and Hours (Transcript)
Probably the minimum educational requirement to do my job is a masters degree in marine biology. My degree is actually in zoology but the class work that I took covered quite a bit of marine biology.
The salary range for this type of job ranges from zero on up to up to about $65,000 - $75,000 a year. The reason I say zero is because that is how I got into this. I volunteered to do this job when the position was vacant and there was no funding. I actually paid a baby sitter to look after my daughter so that I could do this job and it’s just worked out really well for me and now is a full federally funded position.
The hours that we work vary greatly depending on if we are offshore or if we are in the office. I would say a minimum of eight hours a day and that is usually when we are in the office – sometime we work longer hours in the office in preparation for a cruise. When we are actually offshore, days can vary once again but they are at a minimum of eight hours a day. Diving usually starts at 7:00 a.m. and sometimes doesn’t finish until 10:00 or 11:00 at night, so you end up with very long hours. But you do get a little down time during that time. When we are running ROV operations we end up with a 12 – 15 hour workday.
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