is there anybody out there

[A. Berk]

Originally Posted by stew

this is an easy week

Lovely, money fer old rope eh Stew? An easy week here to - in port (40 min from home) on Sunday afternoon, we will sail in 2 hours time and then have 2 and a bit days steam to Vietnam then hopefully a night in port before going out to the field.

roBek

[BigHairyAl]

Crap week for el bighairyo :-(

5 days work at welches Dam in Cambridge turned into 1 day, cut short by the meddlesome RSPB and a few swallows nests deemed too close to our work site.

[stew]

aye, what goes around comes around...
next week i will be up to my ar5e in concrete, sweating buckets in a drybag..

[BigHairyAl]

Another shit week!

Found ourselves at Strangford Lough, County Down on Tuesday with instructions to hop on a barge, wait for the tide to slacken and jump in with a broco to burn off a 4m circumference steel pile.

5 hours after arriving, get a phone call from the contractor to tell us they'd been using scooby doo divers to diamond wire the thing for the past week, and had just succeeded in getting angry with the crane and bending the damn pile off.

I should get a t-shirt printed 'I went to Ireland for Breakfast!'

As an interesting aside, Northern Ireland (we gather) has no surface supplied diving companies - and the tides are so ferocious at Strangford Lough that there are only two 20 minute windows per day in which it is safe to dive. Said scooby doo's had regularly been found surfacing half a mile away after leaving it a little too late!

[spongebobb]

blimey b.h.a
rather them than me ...
dont know if this classes as a bad week , but definately a boring one , monday off ( no work ) . tuesday saftey boat cover , tied up to side of lock whilst sluice tunnels where inspected ( dry ) . wednesday managed to get a 10 minute dive / splash in to check a pile . rest of day inspecting a jetty ... ( dry ) . today watching / saftey for a guy jetting out lock gates internally ( dry again ) . tomorrow THE SAME AGAIN ( also dry )
I AM DRYING OUT !!!! suppose the good news is still paid !!!

[bruno007]

Hi guys,

Working offshore in Vietnam ( Rang Dong Field ) on a DSV at the moment on a 6 trip we have been installing concrete plinths, spools, risers, riser clamps and a rather large pair of leg clamps ( these things are awesome! ) for a fender guard. Moving of to Thai waters shortly in the next day or two, to start a new contract there. Vis is fantastic and tthe waters are warm as you can imagine, so I am making the most of it while the goings good!!!! Back to the uk to probably do some civils work before my next trip offshore, so that will make a nice change

Safe diving guys -

Bruno007