cCulley Eastham & Associates, Inc. offers inland commercial diving services specializing in tow boat response and underwater bridge inspections. We exist to provide affordable services to companies needing intermediate tasks performed that do not require a large commercial diving contractor. We understand that a timely response to your needs is necessary for prompt resolution.
Although MEA specializes in tow boat response and bridge inspections, we also offer a host of commercial diving services. Some of the additional services we offer are listed below. Should you need a diving service that is not listed on this web page, please feel free to contact us to see if MEA can perform the needed task.
Services Offered:
Some of the work tasks our dive team can assist you with include, but are not limited to:
- Lifting vehicles and small aircraft from lakes, rivers, ponds...
- Retrieval assistance of derailed train cars (non-hazardous contents)
- Recovery of bodies
- Intake and Outfall Inspection and Clearing
- Retrieval of tools or other personal property
- Retrieval of boat motor parts
- Disentanglement of boat parts
- 12 Point Tow Boat Running Gear Inspection for Vibrations
- Tow Boat wheel clearing
- Light Salvage
- Cofferdam Sheet Cutting
- Ship husbandry
- Search and retrieval of evidence related to an incident or criminal investigation
- Security checks of boat hulls & dock areas
- Industrial inspection diving
- Dry suit & cold water diving
- Hardhat and Full-face Surface Supplied Diving
We do not currently perform:
- Dives which exceed U.S. Navy no-decompression tables
- Hazardous Materials diving
- Underwater welding
Our Marine Safety Diving Services line manager can review jobs not listed above on a case by case basis to determine if we are qualified to perform additional services.
Qualifications
MEA’s Marine Safety Diving Services’ team members are certified to industry standard criteria. Some examples of member certifications are:
- 644 hour Commercial Diver/Tender (Surface Supplied Air)
- NHI Underwater Bridge Inspection Course
- Basic Open Water SCUBA
- Advanced Open Water SCUBA
- Rescue Diver
- Deep Diver
- Night Diver
- Boat Diver
- Enriched Air (Nitrox) Diver
- PSDA & WR Public Safety Diver I
- In accordance with Occupational Safety and Health Administration 29 CFR 1910.410 Dive Teams
- Safe Boat Operator
- Transportation Worker Identification Credential (T.W.I.C.)
- 10 and 30 hour General Industry Cards
- CPR/First Aid Certified
- Emergency Medical Technician - Basic
- Kirby Morgan Hat User/Operator Certified
- Kirby Morgan Hat Technician
Organization
Our dive services group performs all work in accordance with our dive safety program, which is compliant with OSHA standards and requirements.
Typical responses will be made up of three person teams including:
- Diving Supervisor: The employee designated by the employer at the dive location in charge of all aspects of the diving operation affecting the safety and health of dive team members. The diving supervisor has the experience and training in the conduct of the assigned diving operation.
- Diver: An employee working in water, providing light commercial diving services, using underwater apparatus which supplies compressed breathing gas at the ambient pressure.
- Dive Tender: A diver at the dive location available to assist a diver in the water and maintains a rope connecting the diver to the tender for use in accountability and emergency evacuation of the diver from the water.
Additional resources may be required and will be allocated upon evaluation by our Marine Safety Diving Service line manager.
Staff
Our staff is organized into the following categories in accordance with our Dive Safety Manual:
Diving Control Board:
- L. Todd Eastham, Millwrights Local 1031
- John Sizemore
- Matt Boggs, Carpenters Local 472
Dive Masters:
- L. Todd Eastham, Millwrights Local 1031
- John Sizemore
- Jonathan Pennington, Carpenters Local 472
- Jeff Bennett, Carpenters Local 472
- Jeff Crews, Carpenters Local 472
Authorized Diving Supervisors:
- L. Todd Eastham, Millwrights Local 1031
- John Sizemore
- Jonathan Pennington, Carpenters Local 472
- Paul Pennington, Carpenters Local 472
- Jeff Bennett, Carpenters Local 472
- Jeff Crews, Carpenters Local 472
Authorized Divers/Tenders:
- L. Todd Eastham, Millwrights Local 1031
- John Sizemore
- Jonathan Pennington, Carpenters Local 472
- Paul Pennington, Carpenters Local 472
- Jeff Bennett, Carpenters Local 472
- Jeff Crews, Carpenters Local 472
- Matt Boggs, Carpenters Local 472
- Jeremy Jones, Carpenters Local 472
