West Africa Diving Association (WADA) is a leading provider of marine construction and infrastructure support services in Liberia with over 20 years of experience. WADA offers a full range of commercial diving and underwater services including project management, diving, surveys, inspections, and environmental services. WADA prides itself on its safety practices and high quality work conducted for clients such as the European Union, United States Embassy, and various shipping companies.

1. Freeport of Monrovia
Bushrod Island
Monrovia, Liberia
Email: pdjegbadai@yahoo.com
Cell#: (+231) 0886-517084/ 0886-520-053
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2. About West Africa Diving Association
• West Africa Diving Association (WADA) is one of the oldest diving
contractors and a leading provider of marine construction and
infrastructure support services for over 20 years in Liberia. Our
experience enables us to adapt quickly to unique problems and
resolve potentially costly situations. In addition, we have the proven
ability to customize systems and management teams for individual
projects. We are ready to take your project to the next level in safety,
quality, and technology.
• WADA is one of the few full-service underwater marine contractors
that can provide project management, commercial diving, in water
survey, hull inspections and a full spectrum of environmental
services.
COMPANY PROFILE
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3. COMPANY PROFILE
• WADA staff where trained by the professional Finland Divers, DCN
Global LLC, STANTLY CONSULANTCY, PADI and BAM
INTERNATIONAL.
• WADA worked with the Finland Divers in renovating the Tubman
Bridge. Our responsibilities were to cast concrete pillars and weld the
underwater support structures.
• WADA was the only local company to salvage a wreck (7 times). We
were contracted by PAE to photograph the hull of all ECOMOG gun
boats, MSG Shipping, Ocean Shipping GETMA and OTC in
collaboration with the National Port Authority and hired us to clean
the port of Buchanan, Sinoe and Harper.
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4. COMPANY PROFILE
• Under the supervision of the European Union chief Engineer Mr. Raymond
Cumbersome, WADA was instrumental in the Emergency Rehabilitation
Program of the Freeport of Monrovia.
• WADA was hired by the United State Embassy to inspect the ocean bottom to
a depth of 12 meters about 400ft west of the American Embassy.
• AMP Terminals and BAM INTERNATIONAL hired the services of WADA to
assist in the construction of the Monrovia Container Terminal, our
responsibilities were to cast concrete pillars, weld the anodes on the sheet pills
and conduct in water survey.
• The various shipping agency especially OBT SHIPPING have contracted our
services to conduct numerous ship maintenance work on and offshore. We
have a 100% success rate with numerous references to the scope of work.
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5. OUR APPROACH
Mission Statement
• We stimulate professional pride and passion in our craft and provide
our clients and partners with safe and effective solutions to complex
problems even under the most difficult of conditions.
Vision Statement
• We believe in building on our heritage of craftsmanship, professional
partnership, environmental stewardship and achieving success by
developing, engaging and igniting the passion of our people.
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6. OUR APPROACH
Core Values
• Honesty, Integrity
• Safety, Teamwork, Partnership
• Professional Pride, Dedication to Craft
• Reliability, Dependability
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7. HEALTH, SAFETY & ENVIRONMENT
Health & Safety
• The company has always and will always place the safety of its employees in
the highest regard. Our safety philosophy emphasizes working collaboratively
with each other and our clients to ensure the safest work environment
possible. We maintain this philosophy through our TEAM program (Together
Everyone Achieves More). This program encourages participation from our
employees and clients to ensure safety is maintained for current projects and
improved for future projects.
• Our approach to safety also includes companywide employee training,
ongoing observations and suggestions, daily meetings with job hazard
analysis, proactive dive safety and general safety committees, tracking and
addressing trends, job safety kickoffs, and frequent job safety audits.
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8. Environment
• We work to deliver continuous environmental improvement across
all of our work sites and projects. We integrate training on
regulations, compliance, spill prevention, notifications, equipment
maintenance expectations, and clean-up procedures. Operationally,
we're focused on reducing waste and ensuring preventative
measures are always in place. This commitment to environmental
stewardship creates opportunities to collaborate with our neighbours
and community.
HEALTH, SAFETY & ENVIRONMENT
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9. ACCREDITATIONS
• NSF International Strategic Registrations
•Association of Diving Contractors International
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10. CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT
• As in all construction projects, proper tooling and equipment is
instrumental to the outcome, saving time and money. Properly
designed, built and maintained equipment can make a challenging
task achievable.
• We combine in-house design, engineering and fabrication abilities
with years of experience in a large variety of marine construction
projects to allow us to tackle the toughest of tasks. From mounting
underwater hydrophones to rebuilding eroded sections of end sills to
making repairs to a stilling basin floor to handling and mounting
steel pieces, each project is unique. Our broad spectrum of
experience and abilities allow us to tackle both simple and complex
projects safely and cost-effectively.
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11. DIVE EQUIPMENT
• Our dive gear includes hot water suits, dry suits, hard hat mounted
lighting, and specialty equipment for task-specific jobs such as
diving in hazardous materials, potable water, or black water.
Equipment is portable and can be shipped any where at any time.
• All equipment is maintained to work as efficiently and effectively as
possible with maximum safety in mind for our crews and third
parties. If you have a project that might require specialty gear or
qualified crew, give us a call and see if we can help.
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12. EMERGENCY RESPONSE GEAR
• Preparation and access to the proper gear are critical to any
emergency response. Over the past 20 years we have refined our
trailer response packages to include the essential tools and
equipment for large scale shoreline operations to small marina
responses.
• Equipment is pre-staged at our offices to expedite our response time
and minimize delays to our customers in arriving on-site. WADA
personnel pride themselves in ensuring that all equipment is
maintained and operable when it arrives on-site. The
professionalism of the crew extends to the on-site operations as
they will assess the situation to maintain a safe environment during
stressful circumstances.
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13. • We provide a comprehensive commercial diving and marine support
services for the oil & gas, marine and inshore civil engineering
industries.
• Hull Inspections
• In-water Survey and many more.
• Underwater Welding
Services
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14. WADA values its people.
We place a high value on experience, and give our employees
challenging projects, along with the responsibility and resources
they need to be effective. We promote teamwork, both on and off
the job. We pride ourselves on being small enough to be responsive
and large enough to be effective.
Careers
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15. WADA marketing plan is build on having crews available any
time of the day or night. “We never want to tell a customer that
we can’t do something, or give them any reason to look
elsewhere.
When other companies do that, their customers came looking
to us, and we never let them down.” As a result, WADA’s
reputation grow as the company to call for any marine
construction, emergency response, or marine survey job.
Our Marketing Strategies
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16. Thank you!
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