Coast Guard Rating · Engineering

DV Diver

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Overview

A Coast Guard diver conducts underwater searches, recoveries, investigations, and repairs in varied subsurface conditions. Divers operate diving equipment, air supply systems, sonar, underwater power tools, and remotely operated vehicles in temperatures and visibility conditions ranging from equatorial waters to the Arctic.

Core Skills

Underwater search and recovery operations
Underwater ship hull inspection support
Underwater maintenance, repair, and salvage

Civilian Career Paths

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Commercial Divers

DV experience with underwater maintenance, repairs, hull inspections, and salvage transfers directly to commercial diving work.

How to prepare: Assemble a record of your dive environments, inspection work, and repairs, then review it with a commercial diving employer to identify preparation needed for its assignments.

What the civilian work involves

Take appropriate safety precautions, such as monitoring dive lengths and depths and registering with authorities before diving expeditions begin.
Check and maintain diving equipment, such as helmets, masks, air tanks, harnesses, or gauges.
Obtain information about diving tasks and environmental conditions.

Civilian tools and software (examples)

Diving logbook software
Diving table software

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)

USCG authority snapshot: DV Diver
[1] data/authority/coast_guard-codes.json entry DV (COOL USCG MOC Feed (uscg.json) + Go Coast Guard - Enlisted Careers (gocoastguard.com)); fetched 2026-07-25
Supports: Underwater search and recovery operations, Underwater ship hull inspection support, Underwater maintenance, repair, and salvage, Commercial Divers (O*NET 49-9092.00)
O*NET: Commercial Divers
[2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data
Supports: Commercial Divers (O*NET 49-9092.00)

Defense contractor jobs for DV

Descriptions may be summarized for clarity. Verify all information with your branch career counselor or official military documentation before making career decisions.

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