A bad day at work

[planedriver]

Next time you have a bad day at work... Think of this bloke.

 

Rob is a commercial saturation Diver for Global Divers in Western Australia . He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs.

 

Below is an E-mail he sent to his sister. She then sent it to a radio station in Perth , who was sponsoring a worst job experience contest.

 

Needless to say, she won!

 

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 realise 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 wetsuit. 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 water out of the sea. It heats it to a delightful temperature. It then pumps it down to the diver through a hose, which is taped to the side of the suit. 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 wetsuit. 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 rear end started to itch.

 

So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse. Within a few seconds it was really burning. I pulled the hose out from my back, but the damage was already done. In agony, I realised what had happened.

 

The 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 tail end was not as fortunate.

 

When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the jellyfish into the crack. 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 in fits of hysterical laughter. I was then instructed to make three agonising 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 the affected area as I got into the chamber.

 

Yes the cream put the fire out, but I couldn't s**t for two days because my tail 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 tail.

 

Now repeat to yourself "I love my job, I love my job, I love my job".

 

 

[Guest davidh10]

I bet he changes over to using a Dry Suit so he can wear warm clothing underneath.

 

I actually saw a diver, the day before yesterday, just preparing to dive in the intake to the local hydro electric plant. He too was in a wet suit, and I thought to myself.. "what a crappy job."

 

As its Murray River water, he wouldn't be able to see his hand in front of his face. Everything would have to be done by feel. Bet you thought IMC was challenging!

 

With the water this time of year being about ground temperature (12 degrees), it is cold in even a 7mm wet suit.

 

On the up-side:-

 

• the water is warmer than the air (temp range of -1 to 10 lately).
   
   
  
• he only has to deal with Murray Cod, Perch and Redfin. At least there's no jellyfish, Cone Shells, Blue Ringed Octopi or Stone Fish.
   
   
  

 

 

 

 

[flie43]

Gees Dave, did it get to 10 in Yarra yesterday, I think we only got to 8 here in Wang

 

Terry

 

 

[Tomo]

An earth moving contractor just recently lost a Dump truck into an Effluent pond at a feedlot, 10ft under it was... totally submerged.

 

They rang us up to ask about how they could get it out, so we told them where the lifting points were, and how to do this and that etc... But guess what!

 

You can't see the truck due to the nature of the pond... and someone had to go down there and hook up the lifting ropes. I didn't hear how they ended up getting that done, but I believe a diver came in to do it. Now how about that, diving into an effluent pond, and feeling your way around as well :yuk:

 

 

[planedriver]

And the brave diver carried on with his task, undeterred.

 

To coin a phrase.

 

 

[shags_j]

good god