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The Mississippi River job where my tender saved my life with one hand signal
I was running a 6 inch trash pump at 40 feet in zero vis when my tender yanked my umbilical twice, which was our signal for surface trouble, and I came up to find a barge had drifted into our work zone and would have pinned me against the piling in another 30 seconds.
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miles_jackson95d ago
Walk me through how your tender spotted that barge in time to even give you the signal. Was he watching the surface the whole dive or did he hear something first? I ask because in zero vis that tender is basically your only set of eyes up top, and I'm curious if he had a habit of scanning the water or if this was just dumb luck he happened to look up. And how far had that barge drifted before he caught it, like did he see it early and wait, or was it already on top of you when he yanked that line?
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