MMC Diving Services

"Since 1964"

24 hour Emergency Line: 01983 864 330
Email: enquiries@mmcdivingservices.co.uk

  • We aim to provide the very best service available. We love what we do and this is transparent in our work and your results.

    MMC has a range of hydraulic, pneumatic tools and burning, welding equipment available. Please contact us to discuss your requirements.

  • We operate as both main contractors and as specialist sub-contractors and would be pleased to discuss or tender for any marine civil engineering related projects that you are involved with.

  • We have a 55 foot barge, accommodation for a full dive team and welfare facilities on board which include a galley, office, shower and heads with a purpose built drying room. One hull is a workshop with storage space.

    Self sufficient with a 52 kva 3 phase generator and available to rent. Please contact us for further information.

  • Although we provide services to most marine industries our core activities and specialist skills are concentrated in six key sectors:

    • Renewable energy
    • Submarine cables
    • Marine civil engineering
    • Water and waste water
    • Defence, construction and demolition
  • We develop lasting relationships by exceeding expectations. We operate as both main contractors and as specialist sub-contractors and would be pleased to discuss or tender for any marine civil engineering related projects that you are involved with.

  • We strive at all times to maintain our excellent safety record and our goal for all projects is to have no incidents or accidents to our personnel, co-workers or the public at large, protecting not just ourselves but the reputation of our clients.

  • We would welcome clients to visit our facilities to reassure themselves of our capabilities and to appreciate our total commitment to their requirements.

  • Drilling, cutting, burning, welding and breaking equipment, inspection, testing and surveying equipment, Cardox rock, concrete material breaking and blasting system, maintenance, construction and demolition, support vessels, boats and barges, grouting and concreting, breakout and replacement, thickness NDT, tanks and ships, interpretive report writing on any survey or inspection.

  • Our equipment is maintained to a very high standard in our own workshops and is subject to our stringent in-house, planned maintenance procedures carried out by our skilled technicians.

    All maintenance, logs, inventories and certificates are networked, uploaded and viewable on every site.

  • CONFINED SPACE RESCUE & ROPE ACCESS

    MMC are specialist providers of access engineering solutions including rescue, rope access and confined space works. The combination of these services allows MMC to offer innovative solutions to various challenging tasks, often in hazardous and difficult working conditions.

    We believe that it is our commitment to safety and innovation, as well as our multi-skilled personnel.

CASE STUDIES > CONFINED SPACE RESCUE,ROPE ACCESS & CIVILS

Project: MMC Rope access teams, 9 months, 33 projects, 15,000 man hours

Client: Isle Of Wight Council

Project: MMC Rope access teams, 9 months, 33 projects, 15,000 man hours

Principle Contractor: Ringway Island Roads

Contractor: MMC Diving Services

Duration: March 2022 - Dec 2022

Date posted: 17-10-2023

MMC Diving Services civils team complete a year of repairs and upgrades on retaining stone walls around the isle of wight, utilising our cross trained high ropes, confined space team, completing every project ahead of schedule.

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Project: Bridge dewatering in Gloucestershire

Client: Ringway

Contractor: MMC Diving Services

Duration: 1 week

Date posted: 11-03-2022

MMC Diving Services completed the de-watering and scour repairs to Bledington Mill Bridge in Gloucestershire. These works required the access team to lift the large cast iron deflector plate within the old mill, then create a dam in front of the bridge to divert the river into the dam so that essential works to the bridge could be undertaken in the dry.

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Project: MMC Build Custom Cofferdam to De-Water bridge

Client: Ringway and Island Roads

Contractor: MMC Diving services

Duration: 1 week

Date posted: 20-03-2020

Afton bridge in Freshwater on the Isle of Wight hasn't been accessed for over 30 years, MMC designed built and installed a cofferdam to fully dewater the structure and remove the silt using our in house access team.

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Project: Road Collapses MMC Rope Access Team Undertake Emergency Works

Client: Island Roads

Contractor: MMC Access team

Date posted: 17-03-2020

Following the subsidence of a road in Ventnor on the Isle of Wight, MMC Rope Access team were called upon to attend and provide some mitigation measures to a cliff road that partly subsided with homes below, drilling and bolting mesh to the cliff face to control the subsidence.

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Project: Rope Access Team complete works on old railway Viaduct

Client: Isle of Wight Council

Project: MMC Diving Services

Principle Contractor: Ringway and Island Roads

Contractor: MMC Diving Services

Duration: 3 Weeks

Date posted: 08-11-2019

75m long Iron Bridge on the Isle of Wight gets a facelift by MMC Rope Access team. All other access methods that had been considered were intrusive, expensive and would have required a path closure causing disruptions to the hundreds of regular users.

A strong skilled team of x5 access personnel undertook the cleaning, preparation and painting of the structure which was delivered on time and in budget.

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Project: MMC Rope Access & Confined Space Rescue Teams undertake works in digester for Skanska

Client: Welsh Water

Principle Contractor: Skanska

Contractor: MMC Diving Services

Duration: 2 weeks

Date posted: 27-06-2019

Skanska are undertaking a £48 million investment scheme for Welsh Water which will boost the amount of 'green energy' it produces at its Cog Moors waste water treatment works in Sully. Part of these complex works involved removing the pipework from within 2 large concrete digesters. MMC Diving Services Rope Access Rescue Team who are also cross trained in City and Guilds Confined Space High Risk & Rescue won the contract to undertake these works.

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Project: Cofferdam & Bridge Dewatering Works

Client: Isle of Wight Council

Principle Contractor: Island Roads

Contractor: MMC Diving Services

Duration: 3 weeks

Date posted: 11-03-2019

MMC Diving Services won the tender to construct a temporary cofferdam, dewater and undertake repair works to Brocks Copse in Whippingham on the Isle of Wight.

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Project: Replacement of Bembridge Foot Bridge on the St Helens Causeway

Client: Island Roads

Contractor: MMC Diving Services

Duration: 14 days

Date posted: 11-03-2019

MMC won the tender for the decommissioning and replacement of two existing foot bridges in Bembridge Harbour on the Isle of Wight.

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Project: Bridge Dewatering for Island Roads

Client: Isle of Wight Council

Principle Contractor: Island Roads

Contractor: MMC Diving Services

Duration: 3 weeks

Date posted: 11-07-2018

Island company MMC Diving Services won the tender to dewater and undertake repair works to Pennyfeathers Bridge at Smallbrook on the Isle of Wight.

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Project: Cowes Divers Repair Yacht Haven Sea Wall

Client: Cowes Yacht Haven

Contractor: MMC Diving Services

Duration: 1 day

Date posted: 30-11-2015

Cowes Sea wall loses protection blocks weighing 2.5 ton, Local Dive team MMC Diving services, design and fabricate a set of lifting davits to replace the blocks without the need for a barge.

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Project: Emergency Services Train with MMC Diving and Access Teams

Client: RNLI & I.O.W Fire Brigade departments.

Contractor: MMC Diving Services

Date posted: 28-10-2015

MMC IOW Divers and Confined space access teams have assisted the Isle of Wight emergency services, training the RNLI staff on diver recovery from the water and assisting the Fire Brigade with confined space & high ropes scenarios for their in house training.

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Project: Confined Space Work in Bournemouth

Client: Bournemouth Borough Council

Contractor: MMC Diving Services

Duration: 1 day

Date posted: 13-04-2015

Confined Space Work in Bournemouth.

MMC Diving Services Confined Space Team carry out confined space works in the underground chambers running either side of the Richmond Hill Interchange and Wellington Road Highway.

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Project: Ringway Island Roads Confined Space & High Ropes Works

Client: Isle of Wight Council

Contractor: Ringway Island Roads

Duration: 3 Weeks

Date posted: 21-11-2014

MMC's confined space team where employed to carry out surveys across 10 locations on the Isle of Wight to identify the current status of the bridges and culverts and the maintenance works needed.

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Project: High Ropes Team Clear Cliff

Client: Private Residence

Contractor: MMC Diving Services

Duration: 2 days

Date posted: 11-10-2014

MMC Diving Services high ropes team clears the cliff face.

A small group of landowners got MMC to clear the shrubbery which was allowing a build-up of small falls and sand to gather, hanging until it got heavy enough, at which point the next rainfall or storm would result in large sections of the cliff face falling to the ground and squashing the private assets below.

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Project: High Ropes Access Team

Client: Private Residence

Contractor: MMC Diving Services

Duration: 1 day

Date posted: 08-10-2014

MMC Diving Services High Ropes Access Team.

MMC high ropes teams take away the hassle and disruption to home owner, without the need for scaffolding. MMC's single source solution, replacing ridge tiles and inspecting the roof without multiple tradesmen on their land.

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Project: Confined Space Wroxall Culvert

Client: Isle of Wight Council

Contractor: Ringway Island Roads Ltd

Duration: ongoing

Date posted: 18-02-2014

MMC Diving Services worked closely with Ringway Island Roads Ltd, using their specialised confined space team to remove blockages within culverts.

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Project: Culvert Confined Space Clearance in Shanklin

Client: Isle of Wight Council

Principle Contractor: Ringway Island Roads Ltd

Contractor:

Duration: ongoing

Date posted: 18-02-2014

MMC Diving services have been working closely with Ringway Island Roads Ltd, to prevent road closures and flooding, along with bridge damage and undermining all from blocked culverts.

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