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- - By bruce69 (*) Date 06-14-2011 02:22
I LOVE MY JOB
If you don't laugh out loud after you read this you are in a coma! 
This is even funnier when you realize it's real!
Next time you have a bad day at work think of this guy.
Bob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana
He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs.
Below is an E-mail he sent to his sister.
She then sent it to radio station 103 .5 on FM dial in
Indiana, who was sponsoring a worst job experience contest. 
Needless to say, she won. 
Read his letter below...

Hi Sue,
Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother.
last week I had a bad day at the office.

I know you've been feeling down lately at work, so I
thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you

realize it's not so bad after all.

Before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must
bore you with a few technicalities of my job.
As you know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea.                            

I wear a suit to the office:  it's a wet suit.

This time of year the water is quite cool.
So what we do to keep warm is this: We have a diesel
powered industrial water heater.
This $20,000 piece of equipment sucks the water out of the sea.
It heats it to a delightful temperature.
It then pumps it down to the diver through a garden hose,
which is taped to the air hose.
Now this sounds like a darn good plan, and I've used it several                                 
times with no complaints.
What I do, when I get to the bottom and start working,                                
is take the hose and stuff it down the back of my wet suit.
This floods my whole suit with warm water.
It's like working in a Jacuzzi. 
Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my                                
butt started to itch.
So, of course, I scratched it.
This only made things worse.
Within a few seconds my ass started to burn.
I pulled the hose out from my back, but the damage was
done.
In agony I realized what had happened.

The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and                   
pumped it into my suit.
Now, since I don't have any hair on my back, the jellyfish
couldn't stick to it, however, the crack of my ass was not as fortunate.
When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the
jellyfish into the crack of my ass.
I informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator.

His instructions were unclear due to the fact that he,
along with five other divers, were all laughing hysterically.

Needless to say, I aborted the dive.

I was instructed to make three agonizing in-water decompression stops
totalling thirty-five minutes before I could reach the surface to begin my
chamber dry decompression.
When I arrived at the surface, I was wearing nothing but
my brass helmet. 
As I climbed out of the water, the medic, with tears of
laughter running down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me
to rub it on my butt as soon as I got in the chamber.
The cream put the fire out, but I couldn't **** for two
days because my ass was swollen shut.
So, next time you're having a bad day at work, think about how much worse it
would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your ass.
Now repeat to yourself, 'I love my job, I love my job, I
love my job.' 
Whenever you have a bad day, ask yourself, is this a
jellyfish bad day?
May you NEVER have a jellyfish bad day! !!!!
Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.~
Parent - - By DaveBoyer (*****) Date 06-14-2011 03:03
That is a bad day.

I had My sailboat moored out in Back Creek, Annapolis for a while after the bottom paint had stopped working. I built a supplied air rig to use while cleaning it off. There were 2 things I haddn't allowed for:

1) The supplied air rig used air from an oil-less compressor with no expansion tank. The pulsations got My brain to rattling around in My head and started My ears ringing.

2) Some little larval critter that was living in the gunk I was scraping off the boat bottom decided to relocate inside My left ear. The little bastard wouldn't just sit still in there, it kept trying to crawl deeper when it was all the way in. This was worse than the vibrations & ringing.

I did after many attempts get the critter flushed out with peroxide & white vinegar, it was about 1/4" long. The ringing subsided after a day or two.

The addition of a small expansion tank made the air rig work well, ended up helping 2 friends build units for themselves.

Plugging the ears solves the other problem.
Parent - By JMCInc (**) Date 06-14-2011 16:08
LOL!
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