Megan McCann
Operations manager
Megan is the person most customers speak to first. She takes the inquiries, works the schedule around tides and weather, and is the one who lets you know when the crew are coming.
About Sea Strong Marine
The people who look after your boat
A small crew working out of Norfolk, diving, detailing and painting boats across Hampton Roads.
How it started
We started this because we’d been the customer
Sea Strong Marine was founded by a former U.S. Navy SEAL and qualified dive supervisor, with a background in maritime operations and emergency medical response and more than a decade spent on, under and around this water.
We’re boat owners ourselves, and that’s the part that shaped the company. We’d been through the same thing most owners here have: divers who came once and then stopped answering, work we couldn’t check, invoices that didn’t match what we suspected had happened.
So we built the service we’d been looking for and couldn’t find.
The crew
Who you’ll actually meet
Rage McKay
Lead diver
Yes, that’s his real name, and he gets asked every time. Rage grew up on a working cattle ranch, which is where the early starts came from, and found the ocean a good deal later. He’s an Advanced Open Water diver working toward his Divemaster, he leads most days in the field, and he’s usually the one in the water on your boat.
Ethen Dickinson
Commercial diver
Certified commercial diver and underwater welder. Hull inspections, running gear, anode replacement, line removal and welding below the waterline, with training in rigging, NDT inspection and marine emergency response. When a job turns out to need more than a scrub, Ethen is the reason we don’t have to call somebody else in.
Megan McCann
Operations manager
Megan is the person most customers speak to first. She takes the inquiries, works the schedule around tides and weather, and is the one who lets you know when the crew are coming.
Rage McKay
Lead diver
Yes, that’s his real name, and he gets asked every time. Rage grew up on a working cattle ranch, which is where the early starts came from, and found the ocean a good deal later. He’s an Advanced Open Water diver working toward his Divemaster, he leads most days in the field, and he’s usually the one in the water on your boat.
Ethen Dickinson
Commercial diver
Certified commercial diver and underwater welder. Hull inspections, running gear, anode replacement, line removal and welding below the waterline, with training in rigging, NDT inspection and marine emergency response. When a job turns out to need more than a scrub, Ethen is the reason we don’t have to call somebody else in.
The crew, before they were the crew
Over half our crew were customers first
We’re honored to have over half our crew come from being a client first. It says a lot when people see the vision you’re building and want to come onboard to be a part of it. Who knows, you could be next!
Call the crew on (757) 453-4159
Credentials
- Licensed and insured for all work carried out
- Divers from the Navy SEAL and Naval Special Boat Team communities
- Qualified dive supervisor
- Commercial divers qualified in underwater welding
- Emergency medical response background
- Over a decade on, under and around Hampton Roads water
Keep you on the water
Protect what the boat is worth
Do the work properly and show you that we did
The most common complaint about this trade has nothing to do with the quality of the work. It’s that people don’t turn up.
So the calendar is a job in itself. Inquiries answered the same day, quotes that go out with a service window attached, and if weather or tide moves something you hear it from us before you notice it yourself.
Where we work
Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Hampton, Chesapeake, Cape Charles and Deltaville, and we dive at 14 marinas and yacht clubs across the region.
[The owner] is excellent. He really goes the extra mile on my boat.
No obligation, no pressure
Come and say hello
If you’re still weighing us up, that’s completely normal and you’re welcome to just ask a question. Somebody will come back to you the same day.
Ask us a question
Or just call us
(757) 453-4159