C-Mar Industrial Diving
- C-Mar Industrial Diving was the product of a down-scale of an off-shore rescue and salvage company which operated out of Desolation Sound, near Lund, British Columbia, Canada, beginning in 1969.
- The company has operated under several names in varying locales and configurations since, including the Northeast Pacific from Oregon, USA, to Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada.
- It was successful on 320 of an attempted 321 rescues-for-profit in those waters, including the ungrounding of Coast Guard vessels on three occasions. And it raised 131 vessels (and a few cars, airplanes or whatnot) off the bottom in that time. The company did not keep track of lives saved; though it was proud of its record of having never lost, or injured, a single crew-person in any operation, ever. Nor did it ever damage a single casualty.
- The company has been featured in countless magazine articles in the US, and a few in France, by third-party authors, and the owner has, as well, written and published nearly 100 national-market pieces ranging from industrial diving, to boating safety columns to equine (mostly wild mustang "how-to") works, to aviation, both fixed and rotary winged. The company was, in its final days, a part-time operation, available mostly by appointment or scheduled maintenance contract; however, those in urgent need of a diver could "catch-as-catch-can". The owner would no longer dangle from invisible beeper and cellular strings.
The company, as always, is utterly dedicated to first-class work at reasonable rates and an all 'round fair shake. With no exceptions or excuses.