For many years the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) has published information on how many people were working offshore in ROV and diving roles, now for the first time they have published similar information on offshore survey personnel.

“In early 2011 our Offshore Survey Division Management Committee decided that it would be beneficial to collect information on how many personnel were working offshore in survey-related roles, and how many of them were freelance personnel,” explains IMCA’s Chief Executive, Hugh Williams.

“The data represents the responses of just 28 offshore survey contractor members of IMCA, and as it is the first time this questionnaire has been circulated to them, some companies may not have had the data available – it will be interesting to see how the figures change when we produce the annual report for 2011.”

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