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Diver
OFO Code: 684101
Last checked 7 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 684101
- Occupation
- Diver
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- SKILLED AGRICULTURAL, FORESTRY, FISHERY, CRAFT AND RELATED TRADES WORKERS
- Unit group
- 6841 · Underwater Divers
Official description
Underwater divers work under the surface of water, using underwater breathing apparatus to inspect, install, repair, and remove equipment and structures, conduct tests or experiments, rig explosives, photograph structures or marine life or find and recover missing items and persons.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Abalone Diver, Fisheries Diver, Pearl Diver, Hyperbaric Welder Diver, Mining Diver, Underwater Worker, Scientific Diver, Offshore Diver, Underwater Salvage Worker, Clearance Diver, Onshore Diver, Saturation Diver
- Reporting on condition of wrecked ships
- Checking and maintaining diving equipment such as helmets, masks, air tanks, diving suits, harnesses and gauges
- Descending into water with the aid of diver helpers, using scuba gear or diving suits
- Communicating with workers on the surface while underwater, using signal lines or telephones
- Drilling holes for underwater blasting
- Taking safety precautions, such as monitoring dive lengths and depths, and registering with authorities before diving expeditions begin
- Inspecting for suspected damage and making minor repairs to ships' hulls and underwater installations
- Obtaining information about diving tasks and environmental conditions
- Working under water to lay and repair bridges, piers and harbour-wall foundations
- Performing various underwater tasks connected with salvage work or recovering dead bodies
- Removing underwater obstructions
2. Demand status
Demand evidence unavailable
No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.
PathLens does not fall back to legacy specimen demand flags when governed evidence is unavailable.
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3. Salary evidence
No approved governed salary observation or sourced snapshot salary record is available for this OFO code yet.
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5. Qualification
Qualification evidence pending.
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.
No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.
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9. Decision tools
10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact. - DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment. - Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone. - QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review. - Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim. - SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.