Preparation for Underwater Inspection - Availability of Tools and Equipment
The engineer-in-charge, before taking up the inspection, should list out the complete equipment required for the inspection and ensure that they are working properly. The following equipment would generally be necessary.
- Boats with oars, motor and life preservers
- Diving gears
- Portable flashlight
- Surface cleaning tools, e.g. brushes, scrapers
- Easy-to-read measuring tape
- Knife, hand scraper and hammer
- Sounding gear for determining depth
- Other measuring devices
- Recording devices such as still and video cameras, Plexiglas, and grease pencil.
- Safety equipment In addition to above, specialised equipment may be required to be kept ready for non-destructive testing of material. At occasions, partially destructive testing equipment and equipment for taking samples e.g. core cutting equipment may also be required.