Yak Group

About Us

Yak Diving Services and Yak Diving Academy
With a aim to diversify its bouquet of professional courses offered, the Group spearheaded to establish Indias first ever Commercial Diving Training Academy in sep 2008, to offer a range of Diving Courses. The courses prepare individuals for an exciting career in offshore industry. Academy will be shortly affiliated with IDSA (International Diving School Association) France and offer accredited courses with global acceptance. The academy is located at our Khopoli Maharashtra on a 30 acre campus which also houses, Yak Maritime Academy. Diving academy is being built with a aim to create infrastructure of international standard which includes 50 m*30 m ( 25 Ft deep ) swimming pool, a 12 m tall diving tower and a 4.5 m special water tower for underwater cutting/ welding, Under water non destructive testing training including videography, MPI, UT etc. In addition to professional diving courses, the academy will also be offering recreational SCUBA diving courses for students / corporate, in association with PADI USA. Academy has capacity to house around 100 plus diving trainees at any given time.
Yak Diving Services Pvt Ltd
Yak Diving Services Pvt Ltd incorporated in 2008, a Group Company of the YAK Group, with a objective to provide entire spectrum of underwater services for inshore & offshore industry. The company is headed by Commander Vinod Lok, an ex Navy ( US Navy and INPP France, trained ) Deep Sea Diving & Salvage Officer with over 20 yrs field experience, supported by a team of 8 - 10 highly skilled divers with average experience of 15 yrs each in underwater project execution. We are well equipped to undertake following u/w tasks in Pan India and offshore regions:
Ship survey & repairs
Underwater Cutting/ welding
U/W videography & NDT for jetties/ bridges/ rigs/ Structures etc.
Salvage
Pipe laying
Underwater construction services namely pre eng survey, clamp/ riser installation.
Company is uniquely positioned in the industry as it enjoys comparative advantage of having access to a large pool of trained divers from Indias first commercial diving school YAK DIVING ACADEMY, a group training institution of YAK Group. Scaling flexibility in diving operations is a distinct advantage with YDS Pvt Ltd.

Although a new entrant in the industry , we would like to assure our potential customers that with collective experience of over 50 yrs in underwater operations of existing staff and inventory of latest U/W equipment, the company is well positioned to offer entire range of U/W services at competitive price points and superior quality.