Success
Under
Water
If it’s under water, Midco
Diving & Marine Services
Inc. wants to look at it
By Jess Campbell
When you’re facing unknown territory or
a significant challenge – in life, in your
career or in your industry – there’s usually
a right way and a wrong way to approach
it. Robert Greenspan, owner and president
of Midco Diving & Marine Services Incorporated in
Rapid City, S.D., has made it his mission to service
his clients and build his business the right way –
and it appears to be working for him.
Necessities of work
Native to California, Greenspan began scuba
diving as a teen and had an epiphany in his
early 20s.
“I had a career in retail management and I
decided there was no way I could be doing that
when I was 50,” he said. “I took an opportunity
to go to commercial diving trade school
in New Jersey, at the Divers Academy of the
Eastern Seaboard, in 1993.”
Greenspan moved back to his home state
and, after struggling to find work, finally
landed a job with The Port of Oakland
where, between the international airport
and the cargo container ships, there are
more than 12 miles of waterfront to maintain.
After several years, he got a job in
Montana “doing mostly drinking water
tank work. We’d go on the road for two
months at a time and then come back
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