Underwater Wet Welding - Revised 2023 Edition: A Welder's Mate Paperback – February 6, 2023

Underwater Wet Welding is the definitive guide for all commercial welder-divers.Containing step-by-step procedures for successful underwater wet-stick welding operations, it will help all those seeking to better understand the parameters involved and how to achieve the best results with any particular technique. Although written for those with no significant prior knowledge, it is also a useful reference for the more seasoned welders. This reprint has had a number of edits and revisions and now includes new photos and lab reports. The author, David Keats, has been involved in the welding industry for over 40 years. Initially employed as a welder, before moving on to welding inspector and non-destructive technician. After qualifying as a commercial diver in the early 80’s, he was extensively involved with both wet-stick and hyperbaric welding, together with welding inspection, both inland and offshore in the UK and overseas. He studied metals technologies and metallurgy at Bradford College and completed the IIW diploma programme at The Welding Institute, while running his first business Hydromech Technical Services Ltd, in the early 90’s. David is now semi-retired, but still works an independent welding consultant for Specialty Enterprises (T/A) Weldcraftpro, and is an accepted industry expert in the field of underwater wet welding technology, training and development of welding procedures, etc. He can often be found in, Greece where his good friend and training partner George Maroudas of Marex Subsea Welds Ltd has his facilities. In 2004 he was awarded the DTi SMART Award for a new underwater welding process, for which he wrote a CEng thesis and was granted a UK Patent.Happy welding! Read more