Commercial diving, marine salvage, and motion-picture production from a family that has worked the water for more than seventy years.
The Byrd name has been on the water since the early 1950s — back when commercial diving meant hard hats, surface-supplied air, and trust in the man tending your line. Three generations later, the work is more technical and the gear has changed, but the standard has not.
We are the salvage crew called when the situation is complicated. We are the dive team trusted by directors of photography to put their camera, their talent, and their vision safely beneath the surface. We are captains, riggers, welders, and storytellers — and we have been doing this longer than most companies in the trade have been in business.
— The Byrd FamilySunken vessels, foundered barges, dropped cargo, fouled props, pier and pile work — when something needs to come up off the bottom, or stay down in a controlled way, we plan the lift and run the operation start to finish.
Insured, USCG-compliant operations across coastal & inland waters.
The on-water arm of feature film, television, documentary, and commercial production. We supply vessels, safety divers, underwater rigging, marine coordination, and the boats and crews that make difficult shots possible.
Trusted by feature production, episodic, and commercial clients.
A working flotilla — utility vessels, picture boats, crane platforms, and dive tenders. Some are workhorses. A few are unique enough to write their own page in the call sheet.
Primary dive platform for salvage and inspection work. Open deck, davit, dive ladder, and full surface-supply rigging.
28 ft · 6 crew In serviceHeavy lift capacity for refloating, wreck removal, pile work, and dock construction support. Operated by ticketed crane operators.
Heavy lift On charterA working vessel with the kind of character that reads on camera. Used for film, episodic, and commercial production.
Crew + cast AvailableLow-profile chase boat for cinema rigs, safety standby, and on-water shuttle work.
3 crew In servicePushes barges, tows derelicts, holds station in current. The boat that gets the gear where it has to be.
Tow rated In serviceUSCG-credentialed masters with the experience to read tide, traffic, and weather — and the discipline to call a shoot or a job when the water says no.
Surface-supply and SCUBA-qualified divers trained for commercial work — cutting, welding, rigging, inspection, and the long, patient hours real underwater work demands.
Ticketed lift operators with the touch for marine work — precision picks on a moving platform, working with riggers and divers as one crew.
When the job is complicated, expensive, or both — the call goes to a crew that has been doing the work long enough to have already seen it once.
Project, picture, or problem — give us the situation and we will tell you honestly whether we are the crew for it. We respond to every inquiry.
Hail the wheelhouse