The Commercial Diver Network
Started Oct 4, 2010
Started this discussion. Last reply by Dale Harris Sep 16, 2010.
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Kevin, I note your pictures of Zuluf oilfield, only been there once in 84 (2W-Taylor) but it was a 124 day trip without a run ashore.The Iraqi airforce were hitting friendly shipping with exocets cos they wouldn't go close to targets, perhaps we were safe cos the Brown & Root 318 didn't have radar which those things lock onto.In fact, it didn't have anything else either, just a barge with a stream powered crane, some portacabins and a 400 feet Perry Sat system.
Hi Kevin, The yellow helmet was a prototype my Dad was working on when GDS closed. He worked with Al Krasberg since early 1970s, built his
first prototype reclaim helmet by adding back pressure regulator exhaust valves to an aquadyne DMC7 helmet, then modified a Kirby Morgan 17a shell to incorporate the exhaust valves. Later on a Jewel regulator (created by a tech called Dave Craig) was used on Krasberg helmets, and it's in use with Divex Helmets at present.You can see it on the chin. The yellow one was an early prototype that never made production, I know of only one other,Divex have it in a museum type display. The cannister is a scrubber full of soda sorb, the lever operates overlapping plates, to open up the gas route through the scrubber if the diver loses his main gas supply.A final version would have been designed to redistribute the weight of course but it never got that far, pity about that. These days, our divers use Divex SLS rebreather helmets as a bailout in deep water and especially offshore Norway.
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