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.