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Now for my $0.02 worth
I started in the early '70s in Rhode Island.
Sleeping on Dad's boat and hanging around the marina, I got several jobs scrubbing sail boats, replacing zinc anodes, light salvage (retreving dropped anchors and outboards), setting moorings, and selling barnacle incrusted items to local nautical antique stores. I even got to do some work for the local fire dept putting the hook on a sunken car...(never paid for air for 5 years)
Paid for lots of dive gear and got me into several parties. :mean:
I learned from the guys at seal team 2 in Newport to rig a wide "bosuns chair" , made fro a plank and rope, like a swing, under the boat from each gunwale, so as not to fight the current, or need hand holds. Also those throw away scotch bright pads on a handle, sold at most chandleries, come in various textures, rough, hard, soft, ect. so you can tailor to the job.
Also comm gear, even hard wired, surface supplied air and a ffm is a real help. I started off with a double hose reg. When you lie on your back, it's positive pressure, and easy to breath whilst working hard.
Salvage; don't bother with lift bags for stuff under 100lbs, It's faster to tie a rope from the surface and haul with help. safer too.
Pool repair, I just bought a house with a vinyl lined pool... :banging: While buying supplies, chatting up the sales lady, I asked about finding leaks... Red food colouring and water in a squeeze bottle... and a $5.00 patch kit from Lowes or Home Depot...Once again surface supplied air is good here, takes a bit of time to find all of 'em... Now the neighbors call me....
Be careful what you get into.... My buddy was offered a job to clean out the water intakes at the local electric power plant... the money was so good he was going to buy a used truck after... The raw sewerage that the city dumped after a big rain, gave him cholera, and a 3 month stay in the hospital... no truck, just about paid the bills. We never knew about diving in poluted water nor did we have the proper gear.
Happy days,
Warren
I started in the early '70s in Rhode Island.
Sleeping on Dad's boat and hanging around the marina, I got several jobs scrubbing sail boats, replacing zinc anodes, light salvage (retreving dropped anchors and outboards), setting moorings, and selling barnacle incrusted items to local nautical antique stores. I even got to do some work for the local fire dept putting the hook on a sunken car...(never paid for air for 5 years)
Paid for lots of dive gear and got me into several parties. :mean:
I learned from the guys at seal team 2 in Newport to rig a wide "bosuns chair" , made fro a plank and rope, like a swing, under the boat from each gunwale, so as not to fight the current, or need hand holds. Also those throw away scotch bright pads on a handle, sold at most chandleries, come in various textures, rough, hard, soft, ect. so you can tailor to the job.
Also comm gear, even hard wired, surface supplied air and a ffm is a real help. I started off with a double hose reg. When you lie on your back, it's positive pressure, and easy to breath whilst working hard.
Salvage; don't bother with lift bags for stuff under 100lbs, It's faster to tie a rope from the surface and haul with help. safer too.
Pool repair, I just bought a house with a vinyl lined pool... :banging: While buying supplies, chatting up the sales lady, I asked about finding leaks... Red food colouring and water in a squeeze bottle... and a $5.00 patch kit from Lowes or Home Depot...Once again surface supplied air is good here, takes a bit of time to find all of 'em... Now the neighbors call me....
Be careful what you get into.... My buddy was offered a job to clean out the water intakes at the local electric power plant... the money was so good he was going to buy a used truck after... The raw sewerage that the city dumped after a big rain, gave him cholera, and a 3 month stay in the hospital... no truck, just about paid the bills. We never knew about diving in poluted water nor did we have the proper gear.
Happy days,
Warren
I realized this morning this quote looks a bit rediculous, and boastful.
I never dived with these guys, but did a lot of trap and skeet shooting at the base gun club. We got talking about the best way to different U/W jobs.
Cheers,
Warren
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Thanks Warren,
The bosun's chair is a great idea...Michael gave me some terrific advice too.
I got this from a friend of mine who heard that I am interested in this line of work...
Subject: you think you have a bad job?
>
> Next time you have a bad day at work,. think of this guy.
>
> Rob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana.
> He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs. Below is an
> E-mail he sent to his sister. She then sent it to The X, 103.2 on your
> FM dial in Ft Wayne IN, who was sponsoring a "worst job experience"
> contest. Needless to say, she won.
>
> Hi Sue,
>
> Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother. Last week I had a
> bad day at the office. I know you've been feeling down lately at
> work, so I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you
> realize it's not so bad after all.
>
> Before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must bore you with
> a few technicalities of my job. As you know, my office lies at the
> bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to the office. It's a wetsuit. This
> time of year the water is quite cool. So what we do to keep warm is
> this: we have a diesel powered industrial water heater. This $20,000
> piece of equipment sucks the water out of the sea and heats it to a
> delightful temperature. It then pumps it down to the diver through a
> garden hose, which is taped to the air hose. Now this sounds like a
> darn good plan, and I've used it several times with no complaints.
> What I do, when I get to the bottom and start working, is take the
> hose and stuff it down the back of my wetsuit. This floods my whole
> suit with warm water. It's like working in a Jacuzzi.
>
> Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my butt started to
> itch. So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse.
> Within a few seconds my butt started to burn. I pulled the hose out
> from my back, but the damage was done. In agony I realized what had
> happened. The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and
> pumped it into my suit. Now since I don't have any hair on my back,
> the jellyfish couldn't stick to it. However, the crack of my butt
> was not as fortunate. When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I
> was actually grinding the jellyfish into my butt. I informed the
> dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator. His
> instructions were unclear due to the fact that he, along with 5 other
> divers were all laughing hysterically.
>
> Needless to say I aborted the dive. I was instructed to make 3
> agonizing in-water decompression stops totaling 35 minutes before I
> could reach the surface to begin my chamber dry decompression. When
> I arrived at the surface, I was wearing nothing but my brass helmet.
>
> As I climbed out of the water, the medic, with tears of laughter
> running down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me to rub
> it on my butt as soon as I got in the chamber. The cream put the
> fire out, but I couldn't poop for 2 days because my butt-hole was
> swollen shut.
>
> So, next time you're having a bad day at work, think about how much
> worse it would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your butt.
>
> Now repeat to yourself, "I love my job, I love my job, I love my
> job..."
I STILL want to do it...
The bosun's chair is a great idea...Michael gave me some terrific advice too.
I got this from a friend of mine who heard that I am interested in this line of work...
Subject: you think you have a bad job?
>
> Next time you have a bad day at work,. think of this guy.
>
> Rob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana.
> He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs. Below is an
> E-mail he sent to his sister. She then sent it to The X, 103.2 on your
> FM dial in Ft Wayne IN, who was sponsoring a "worst job experience"
> contest. Needless to say, she won.
>
> Hi Sue,
>
> Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother. Last week I had a
> bad day at the office. I know you've been feeling down lately at
> work, so I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you
> realize it's not so bad after all.
>
> Before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must bore you with
> a few technicalities of my job. As you know, my office lies at the
> bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to the office. It's a wetsuit. This
> time of year the water is quite cool. So what we do to keep warm is
> this: we have a diesel powered industrial water heater. This $20,000
> piece of equipment sucks the water out of the sea and heats it to a
> delightful temperature. It then pumps it down to the diver through a
> garden hose, which is taped to the air hose. Now this sounds like a
> darn good plan, and I've used it several times with no complaints.
> What I do, when I get to the bottom and start working, is take the
> hose and stuff it down the back of my wetsuit. This floods my whole
> suit with warm water. It's like working in a Jacuzzi.
>
> Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my butt started to
> itch. So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse.
> Within a few seconds my butt started to burn. I pulled the hose out
> from my back, but the damage was done. In agony I realized what had
> happened. The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and
> pumped it into my suit. Now since I don't have any hair on my back,
> the jellyfish couldn't stick to it. However, the crack of my butt
> was not as fortunate. When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I
> was actually grinding the jellyfish into my butt. I informed the
> dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator. His
> instructions were unclear due to the fact that he, along with 5 other
> divers were all laughing hysterically.
>
> Needless to say I aborted the dive. I was instructed to make 3
> agonizing in-water decompression stops totaling 35 minutes before I
> could reach the surface to begin my chamber dry decompression. When
> I arrived at the surface, I was wearing nothing but my brass helmet.
>
> As I climbed out of the water, the medic, with tears of laughter
> running down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me to rub
> it on my butt as soon as I got in the chamber. The cream put the
> fire out, but I couldn't poop for 2 days because my butt-hole was
> swollen shut.
>
> So, next time you're having a bad day at work, think about how much
> worse it would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your butt.
>
> Now repeat to yourself, "I love my job, I love my job, I love my
> job..."
I STILL want to do it...
You have passed the first test to be a commercial diver ... positive massochistic tendencies.
michael
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What do you mean open water certified?
cwhite6
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That would his basic OW certification from PADI, SSI, NAUI, etc. BTW, this thread is 9 years old.
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