Diary of a Commercial Diver in Training
Back out on the Boat We’re back out on the boat today and the ones who didn’t do the deep dive yesterday get to go to 30m today. As we’re headed to the dive site I can barely believe my eyes when I look at the sonar. 137m and all the way down to 145….Continue Reading “Day 19 – Currents and other Annoyances”
NOG or no NOG? After we (hopefully successfully) complete this course we will be trained and legally allowed to work at depths up to 30m. So, today is the time to go deep. For most of the guys, yesterday’s 20m was the deepest they’ve ever been. Ronan and I have had deeper dives in our…Continue Reading “Day 18 – Deep Dive”
Back in the Open Water After giving my sinuses a few days of rest I’m more than ready to get back in the water. Today’s task is training search patterns at 20m depth. The thermometer shows 7 degrees this morning and the fact that the water is twice as “warm” is little consolation. But we’re…Continue Reading “Day 17 – Search and Recovery”
Putting the “Commercial” in our Diving I’m not the biggest fan of getting up early, but today is different. We’re going to use a surface-supplied air source for the first time. This it the part of commercial diving everyone’s seen before, in movies and documentaries, even without knowing anything about it. Everyone’s excited to get…Continue Reading “Day 16 – Diving Surface-Supplied”
Today we spent most of the day in Malaga getting some administrative paperwork out of the way. Nothing too spectacular happened today… So instead… Spectacular Sunrises Since the start of the second week, part of our morning routine, designed to keep us in shape for a physically challenging job, is running. [metaslider id=”995″] And while…Continue Reading “Day 15 – Administrative Stuff…”