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Called out by a welder on a pipeline job in Louisiana for not cleaning my regulator before a dive
He told me I was gonna get a free lungful of rust if I kept ignoring the grit in the intake screen, and that one comment made me check my gear way more carefully ever since, has anyone else had a surface-side guy catch something you missed?
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joel_butler14d ago
Read a diving forum where a guy said a rusty reg nearly locked up at sixty feet.
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stellaa6914d ago
Feel that one deep down. Had a deckhand on a Gulf shrimper point out a crack in my drysuit zipper that I'd completely missed, woulda been a cold wet trip to sixty feet. Surface guys see stuff from angles we don't, plus they're not rushed on the dive schedule. That welder did you a solid, pipeline mud gets into everything and a gritty reg is no joke. Always good to have another set of eyes, even if they're covered in grease.
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