FORM 3

                                              U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                                                       Washington, D.C. 20549

                                      INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP AND SECURITIES

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|1. Name and Address of                 |2. Date of Event Re- |4. Issuer Name and Ticket or Trading Symbol  NASDAQ                 |
|   Reporting Person                    |   quiring Statement |                                                                    |
|                                       |   (Month/Day/Year)  |         Cal Dive International, Inc. - "CDIS"                      |
|   Owen Kratz                          |     6/27/97         |                                                                    |
|   ----------------------------------  |  -----------------  |  ----------------------------------------------------------------  |
|     (Last)     (First)      (Middle)  |3. IRS or Social Se- |5. Relationship of Reporting Person to Issuer |6. If Amendment,     |
|                                       |   curity Number of  |             (Check all applicable)           |   Date of Original  |
|   Cal Dive International, Inc.        |   Reporting Person  |                                              |   (Month/Day/Year)  |
|   13430 Northwest Frwy, Suite 350     |   (Voluntary)       |  [X] Director            [X] 10% Owner       |                     |
|   ----------------------------------  |                     |                                              |       N/A           |
|           (Street)                    |                     |                                              |---------------------|
|                                       |                     |  [X] Other (give title   [ ] Other (specify  |7.Individual or Joint|
|                                       |   ----------------  |               below)                  below) | /Group Filing (Check|
|   Houston,     TX           77040     |                     |               President                      |  Applicable Line)   |
|   ----------------------------------- |                     |     -------------------------------------    |                     |
|    (City)      (State)       (Zip)    |                     |                                              |[X]Form filed by 0ne |
|                                       |                     |                                              |   Reporting Person  |
|                                       |                     |                                              |[ ]Form filed by More|
|                                       |                     |                                              |   than One Reporting|
|                                       |                     |                                              |   Person            |
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|                                       |                  Table I -- Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned                 |
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|1. Title of Security                   |2. Amount of Securities         | 3. Ownership         | 4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial |
|   (Instr. 4)                          |   Beneficially Owned           |    Form: Direct (D)  |    Ownership                     |
|                                       |   (Instr. 4)                   |    or Indirect (I)   |    (Instr. 5)                    |
|                                       |                                |    (Instr. 5)        |                                  |
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|  Common Stock                         |  1,440,929                     |  (D)                 |                                  |
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        Table II -- Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, convertible securities)
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|1. Title of Derivative         |2. Date Exer-    |3. Title and Amount of          |4. Conver- |5. Ownership  |6. Nature of In-    |
|   Security (Instr. 4)         |   cisable and   |   Securities Underlying        |   sion or |   Form of    |   direct Beneficial|
|                               |   Expiration    |   Derivative Security          |   Exercise|   Derivative |   Ownership        |
|                               |   Date          |   (Instr. 4)                   |   Price of|   Security:  |   (Instr. 5)       |
|                               |   (Month/Day/   |                                |   Deri-   |   Direct (D) |                    |
|                               |   Year)         |                                |   vative  |   or Indirect|                    |
|                               |                 |                                |   Security|   (I)        |                    |
|                               |-----------------|--------------------------------|           |   (Instr. 5) |                    |
|                               |        |        |                    |   Amount  |           |              |                    |
|                               |Date    |Expira- |                    |     or    |           |              |                    |
|                               |Exer-   |tion    |        Title       |   Number  |           |              |                    |
|                               |cisable |Date    |                    |     of    |           |              |                    |
|                               |        |        |                    |   Shares  |           |              |                    |
|-------------------------------|--------|--------|--------------------|-----------|-----------|--------------|--------------------|
|  Option                       | various| 4/15/02| Common Stock       | 250,000   | $9.50     |  (D)         |                    |
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Explanation of Responses:

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                                                                    **Signature of Reporting Person                     Date

** Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal Violations.
   See 18 U.S.C. (1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a).

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      See Instruction 6 for procedure.                                                                               SEC 1473 (3/91)
      See Instruction 6 for procedure.                                                                               SEC 1473 (3/91)