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Hi guys i went out on a job site and was just chilling around with some older divers who have been in the business for decades.....and man those guys got some stories that makes me ponder..... why do they still do it?........So i want to know what stories do u guys have to share??
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Permalink Reply by Jerry Babin on
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You do what is in your blood because you love it. Back in the day when tenders got what divers are being paid today you earned your bones in this business not in a class room, but on the deck of a boat or on the sea floor when your diver was out of rotation so the wh*** job didnt get shut down. YOu said what was on your mind and even the Skipper listened to the Diver over the Rep ( why because we walked the bottom and knew the job, the rep didnt.) THey wrote reports and made sure that we got our supplies on time. Now Divers kiss ass to some college kid who cant even SCUBA, much less do what we do.
Fair winds Lil Bro
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Permalink Reply by Mike Wolfe on
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"Back in the day when tenders got what divers are being paid today"
What day was that???
I started in '89 at $6/ hour offshore, 5 in the shop. We were the highest paid tenders in Morgan City then! Break out divers were making $5 hourly and $5 gear rental/ hour. $550 a day for sat. $1/foot depth after 50. NO BENEFITS! In my case, anyways, things are much better now! Even the vessel I work is much nicer than anything that was in the GOM when I started.
You want to hear sea stories? OK,
No s***, there I was......
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In 89 when I left the Corps, I was being paid $10 per hour as a green tender for PDNO Out of Belle Chasse + 10 per day gear comp. 14 after I broke out $1.00 per foot depth. Believe it or not, some divers are only makin 15 (and graduates taking even less just trying to make that log book fat). Some are broke out the day after school to keep from giving raises to the divers who need them. we are becoming disposable.
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If PDNO was paying that well in 89 I can't imagine why all the old Taylor and SanteFe hands came to OPD for 10-13/ hour. Must have been M.C. Boudreaux's charming personality! As a L/T at OPD I only made 9/hour. Broke out in '92 for 5 & 5. I didn't get a raise until OPD merged with McD in '95. More days offshore or a shot in sat was considered a "raise" in those days! Really, it took Ivan/Rita/Katrina/Ike to really improve things. Pre-hurricane I knew some old hands only making 17/hour (but they really never saw that as they were in sat, if they were offshore.)
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some wernt paid as well, but I knew what the skills I had were worth and so did Larry, back then anyone could get a job, getting paid properly was the trick many never learned. at 14 I got my first contractors liscence in Plaquimenes Parish to build and remodel. I learned the principles of business at a young age, so at 23 when I went to Larry to get work, I planned on getting paid for what I already knew. Not just for what his team would later teach me. Larry TOmberlin took very, very good care of Military Vets.
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No s***, there I was, locked out of the bell at 2000'....and I dropped the keys!
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Permalink Reply by Will on
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hahahaha this thread has been by and bunch of bandits.
Ok, ok I got a story, so after 15 replies let me start this off lol.
a couple summers ago we got a call to go to a pulp mill because one of thier clairifiers were not circulating water or something along those lines. The problem was that the h***s the water circulated through were pluged over the years with dirt an mud. So I went in and for the next 4 hours proceeded to crawl back and forth along these 24in pipe in near zero viz sticking my finger in these 1in h***s to clear them of mud. I probably could have done this job on a snorkel it was like 5 ft of water. The niec thing about it was the more h***s that got cleared the better the viz got.
looooovvvvvveeeeee being a deepsea diver! :D
If that story dont get you pondering Darrion I dunno what will! ;)
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Permalink Reply by Fred C. Johnson on
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mThis is no bull s***,
We had a 360 foot gas dive off a rig in the Santa Barbara Channel back in the day.
Gear was Kirby heavy gas hats with jap dress.
I jumped off the deck ( 50' drop to the water ) hit the exhaust and dropped like a rock.
all at once everything went black and I felt squeezed tight, thought to my self, self this is it I must be done for then all at once there was clear water and I was free moving.
I kept on dropping til I got to the bottom and went ahead and went to work on the BOP.
30 minutes later my tender Willy Stratton says leave bottom time to come up.
Well right away Willy starts complaining how heavy I am and to add a little more gas to the suit to lighten up a bit. I get to 100 feet and switch to air and start getting warm. my hose is jerking all the time and I tell Willy quit F-ing around with the hose, your going to jerk me of the damn stage. Willy says F-you the kids got the hose and im the one jerking the hose.
Well after my hang off Willy says up on the diver and starts pulling my hose.
The kid cannot pull the hose and its jerking like hell.
I tell Willy get me the hell out I gotta piss. Willy the fine tender he is says F-you piss in your suit we cannot pull you up the hose is hung up and quit jerking the F-ing hose.
I tell em I aint jerking the F-ing hose, Im just hanging here heavy.
Willy says I gotta get yer ass up now, so's he takes my hose and throws a clove hitch on the crane hook and starts pulling .
Well I tell ya that did the trick and they hoist me up on deck and set me down.
Im standing there and no ones paying attention to me there all looking over at the deck and there I stand with all this weight getting shorter all the time.
Willy get me the F**K outta this damn gear. Well they sit me down and take off the helmet and I look over at the deck and there's my damn hose going right through a 600 lb giant sea bass.
Seems I dropped down right through his mouth and out his a** h***.
I guess you know what we had for chow.
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Only fred could come up with one that good!
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Permalink Reply by Tamer Ahmed on
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AWESOME ONE !!!!!!!!!!!!
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