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Everyone says the dive hat should stay on the tender, but after 6 years working the Gulf I think that's backwards
I was on a job off Galveston last month and the supervisor made us pull gear 40 feet back from the water every single shift, which added two hours of nothing but walking. The old timers told me this has been standard since the 90s, but I keep seeing guys get hurt moving that weight around more than I ever saw anyone get hurt leaving it close. Does anyone actually have a story where keeping the hat near the water caused a real problem?
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spencer98128d ago
Where are all these stories of hats getting wrecked at the water line? I've worked the Gulf for a while and the only gear I've seen go in the drink was from guys tripping over their own feet, not from a hat sitting close by. The 40 foot rule sounds like something a lawyer came up with, not a diver. You're adding two hours of moving heavy gear every shift, which means tired guys handling tanks and weights in the dark, and that's where people actually get hurt. Seems like the rule is solving a problem nobody's ever shown me. So yeah, I'm with you, unless someone can point to a real wreck or an injury from a hat near the water.
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