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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.
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
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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
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Permalink Reply by Toby Dodd on
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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.
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Permalink Reply by Steve Rupp on
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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.
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Permalink Reply by Adam Broetje on
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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. :)
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Permalink Reply by Anthony B on
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Rectum- Commonly used by Alabama/Georgia divers/. As in H***eeee S*** that dive almost wrecked um...naw almost kilt him
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Permalink Reply by Jimmy Kyser on
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roll tidee
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Permalink Reply by Martin Morris on
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Ain't no friggin wheel on the ARK.
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Permalink Reply by Bill Gardner on
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Yeass, Great isn't it!!!
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