The Ocean Corporation

Gearing up

Xavier reads steel for a living.

Xavier Quintanilla trained in Nondestructive Testing at The Ocean Corporation. Today he's in the field running automated ultrasonic testing for Quasset — an encoded scanner mapping a vessel's wall thickness and weld integrity, point by point, catching what the eye never could.
This is what modern NDT looks like. Precision instruments, real consequences, and a technician who knows exactly how to read them.

Proud of you, Xavier. 🌊

Quasset

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💸 Financial Aid / Payment Plan
🎓 New Class starts monthly
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This pipe doesn't go in the ground without multiple NDT inspectors signing off. 🔍

What you're seeing is a real pipeline lowering operation in South Texas. Five side-boom cranes working in sync to lower a 30"+ pipeline into its trench. Before that trench closes, every weld has been ultrasonically scanned or x-rayed, every coating checked, every joint radiographed.

That's not one job. That's a crew of careers.

📊 Real numbers from the ASNT 2025 Salary Survey:
✅ UT Inspector (Oil & Gas) — $137,612/yr avg
✅ Coating Inspector — $109,387/yr avg
✅ VT Lowering Inspector (South Central) — $134,225/yr avg
✅ RT Radiographer — up to $134,149/yr (Level III)

At The Ocean Corporation in Houston, we train the technicians who do this work — ASNT Level I & II certification in UT, RT, MT, PT, VT, ET, GPR, and IR.

If you've ever driven past a job site like this and wondered who certifies that work is safe; now you know.

👇 DM us or hit the link in bio to learn more.

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