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Marine solutions since 1982 |
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About Us |
 Tom Belcher, President
Born and raised in California (1948), Tom graduated from San Jose State University in 1971 with a BA in Political Science, and then from Santa Barbara Community College in 1973, earning an AA in Marine Technology. Tom began working in the Gulf of Mexico as a Diver, Tender and Pipe-fitter/Technician in the offshore oilfield. Gaining experience in construction support, fabrication, operations and maintenance with numerous deep air/gas and saturation diving systems, he relocated to Aberdeen, Scotland where he worked on derrick barges and workboats in the North Sea as an air/gas/saturation diver and life support technician on the BP Forties Field. Thereafter, he became a project and dive supervisor/superintendent on the BNOC Thistle Alpha project for 4 years. Later, while based in Santa Barbara, he worked as an air/gas diver and supervisor for both offshore oilfield and inland marine operations and was a saturation supervisor for Exxon USA installation of their 1st SALM buoy. Belcher has had interim assignments in Bombay, India and Abidjan, Ivory Coast as a gas diver and saturation dive supervisor. In 1982 he founded Underwater Resources, Inc. (URI), as a marine/diving consulting firm. URI purchased their first ROV system in 1984 and obtained an engineering contractor’s license to provide diving and ROV services to both the private and public sectors. Over the past twenty-five years Tom has been responsible for business development with a broad-based list of engineers, public works agencies and contractor clientele who routinely utilize diving and marine services for a wide range of inspection, repair, rehabilitation and new construction projects.
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 Dean Moore, Operations Manager
Dean was born in Sydney, Australia (1967), and having performed and completed a 4-year apprenticeship in Fitting & Turning in 1988, earned his Associate Diploma in Mechanical Engineering in 1991. He received his Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree from University of Technology in Sydney, Australia in 2001. Prior to completing his engineering studies Dean worked as a machinist and mechanical equipment specialist onboard submarines and surface ships for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). During and after his studies he worked as a Senior Project Engineer and Senior Technical Officer in support of military contracts with the RAN and Department of Defense (Navy), providing design engineering services for a variety of military diving systems including the conducting of hazards analysis, defect investigation, developing maintenance procedures and operational manuals. In 2002 Mr. Moore moved with his family to San Francisco and joined the Underwater Resources team as its Operations Manager where he oversees and manages the daily shop and field service operations. Dean is responsible for implementing and managing URI's safety and equipment maintenance programs and shares the role as Project Manager and estimator with other key personnel. He has studied and qualified for URI’s out-of-state engineering contractor licenses and is responsible fo r developing and maintaining the company's job bid/job costing software monitoring programs.
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 Terry Flinn, Project Manager
Born and raised in Richmond, Virginia (1950), Terry is a graduate from both University of Virginia (BA in Economics in 1973), and Santa Barbara Community College with an AS in Marine Technology in 1977. Flynn began his diving career in the North Sea off the Scottish and Holland coasts on work boats, derrick barges and semi-submersibles, providing dive support in all aspects of heavy construction associated with the permanent installation of offshore oil production platforms, gas and oil transmission pipelines, cathodic protection, and the ongoing inspection, maintenance and weld repair programs for BP Ninian and BNOC Thistle Fields. Before departing the North Sea, Terry was also part of a team of divers who conducted a detailed survey for the purpose of salvaging materials from several WW1 German battleships scuttled in Scapa Flow, Scotland. Moving to Alaska in 1979, Mr. Flinn worked as a diver, marine construction supervisor and Diving Division Manager for a regional marine construction firm based in Anchorage. Flynn has acquired years of field experience in a wide range of projects including pile driving, fishing and oil terminal dock construction; erosion control/ice damage scour and protection mat installations, salvage of fishing vessels, oil platform inspection and repair with pipeline stabilization in the Cook Inlet for 13 years. In 1992 he moved back to Virginia to work as a Marine Superintendent/Contractor for the construction marinas, performing pile driving, extensive use of wire saw machines for the demolition of transmission towers and construction of other marine structures. Mr. Flinn moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and joined Underwater Resources in 2006 where he, as project manager, is responsible for all aspects of project support from bid preparation, job costing to dispatching crews and providing customer support for field operations.
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 Luda Senderovich, Office Manager/Controller
Luda joined Underwater Resources early in 2007 after having previously worked as the Office Manager/Controller for another San Francisco based construction company. Her primary responsibilities include management of all our day-to-day business and accounting operations which require her to also track and monitor both URI's actual and projected cash flows for us to successfully operate. She has a passion for organization and, as a native of Russia where she worked as a Senior Financial Planner, she is bilingual and adept in dealing with the requirements for a contracting company that works with numerous bureaucracies and public agencies.
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 Grant Cooper, Marine Superintendent
Born and raised in Northern California in 1954, Mr. Cooper graduated from the California Department of Forestry Fire Academy in 1974 and Coastal School of Deep Sea Diving in 1978 before moving to the United Kingdom and working as a construction/inspection diver. He obtained additional training and welding/inspection certifications (UT/MPI) while working in the UK though Lloyds and CSWIP at Fort Bovisand before being transferred to Dubai in 1979. Mr. Cooper has written papers and performed detailed class inspections of vessels, pipelines and offshore platforms according to approved DNV, ABS and Lloyds procedures. He first worked with Underwater Resources in 1984 as a diver and, since 1998, has continued working as a heavy equipment operator/inspection specialist and marine superintendent and is specialized in general marine/diving construction, piling and dock repairs and the construction and installation of large diameter HDPE marine pipelines.
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 Ron Null, Marine Superintendent
Born and raised in Southern California in 1962, Mr. Null grew up in the commercial diving industry and started working part time at the age of 14 for Divine Diving Services in San Diego before moving to the Gulf of Mexico and working as a tender and breaking out as a diver in 1978 in support of offshore oilfield construction and production facilities. Formally trained as a commercial diver in 1984 at Commercial Diving Center (CDC) in Wilmington, California, he continued diving in the Gulf until 1988 when he moved to the West Coast to continue his diving career as a “free lance” diver with the Cousteau Society, filming documentaries, dive inspection and clean-up support of the “Exxon Valdez” salvage, and on numerous offshore oilfield and inland marine construction projects throughout the United States. Mr. Null has supervised and overseen large marine construction projects requiring extensive underwater forming with concrete pours, pipe and sheet piling installations, raw water intake gate and traveling screen rehabilitations, HDPE pipeline submergence and pier repairs.
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 Jim Pipkin, Shop Foreman
Jim is a retired US Navy diver and due to the extent of his diving career, has extensive experience working with, maintaining and repairing both life support equipment and construction tools for underwater applications. Jim is a vital part of our operations and is directly responsible for maintaining all our equipment, including the upkeep of our yard facility. Jim works closely with the Operations Manager to upgrade and improve our equipment on an as-needed basis, keeping maintenance logs for equipment repair, providing operator training for crew personnel, as well as keeping the yard clean and safe. |
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California Contractor’s License #639975; Nevada Contractor’s License #0067863
Copyright 2008, Underwater Resources, Inc. |
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