Commercial Diving Slang

I need everyone's help to create a list of commercial diving slang words! We're going to add a mini dictionary of diver slang to the cDiver Wiki.

What words do you know and how do they translate? Also, please mention if they are specific to your country/location.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Wolfe on September 22, 2009 at 3:35pm
This could get ugly. Much slang used in the GOM (Gulf of Mexico) oilfield is pornographic in nature. Others would just be names for tools that you may not have seen outside of heavy construction work. I'll get you started:
Cadillac = .5 ton wire come-a-long
Permalink Reply by Anthony B on September 22, 2009 at 10:37pm
Shaun, i agree be the HAMMER
Permalink Reply by Toby Dodd on September 22, 2009 at 3:52pm
Pig - used to retrieve high value products in the process line as well as to clean the line of build up. the projectile generated a squealing noise as it sped through the pipeline, therefore the name “pig”. pigging, as a manufacturing process, is where a pig is sent down a piping system to clean the pipe and/or recover product in the line.
Permalink Reply by Toby Dodd on September 22, 2009 at 4:25pm
Screw - Roto screw service air compressor
Permalink Reply by Steve Rupp on September 22, 2009 at 6:03pm
We'll start out clean....
D-1: Your basic shovel. (a human powered version of a D-9 Caterpillar earth-mover or similar) Not seen much off shore but used a bunch for inland work.
Permalink Reply by Skylar on September 22, 2009 at 7:04pm
jam- filling tanks or baillouts

"hey did you jam the HP banks?"
Permalink Reply by liz vazz on September 22, 2009 at 9:14pm
WAY TOO MANY DEPENDS ON TYPE OF JOB, WHERE YOU WORK ,TOOLS YOU ARE USING. I CAN GO ON AND ON . IT WOULD TAKE FOREVER!! THE PERSON WHO POSTED THIS ARE THEY A COMMERCIAL DIVER? JUST ASKING? CAUSE THEY HAVE NO IDEA ! GOOD LUCK ! LOL AND I MEAN THAT IN A GOOD WAY!!!
Permalink Reply by Adam Broetje on September 22, 2009 at 10:58pm
Ha, not at all. Martha is actually our cDiver.net intern. She's a scuba diver, but by no means is she a commercial diver. Just like me. :)
Permalink Reply by Anthony B on September 22, 2009 at 10:24pm
Rectum- Commonly used by Alabama/Georgia divers/. As in Holeeeee Shit that dive almost wrecked um...naw almost kilt him
Permalink Reply by Jimmy Kyser on June 6, 2011 at 4:42pm

roll tidee

 

Permalink Reply by liz vazz on September 23, 2009 at 12:14pm
I LOVE THIS ONE ! TOO FUNNY!
Permalink Reply by Martin Morris on September 23, 2009 at 12:21pm
Ain't no friggin wheel on the ARK.

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