Thank you for your service Mr Groom. An excellent book with some laugh out loud moments.
@dan26658 ай бұрын
Good to see the underwater Roustabouts, pity a small ROV machine now does all their work.
@keithgales885611 ай бұрын
Wow that brought back memories. I dived on Ninian South in 1980 off the Seaway Swan doing pipe installation and attaching anodes.
@thenightmomstalker2 жыл бұрын
so where is he ?
@operatorjeffdeathstar77593 жыл бұрын
Thanks Tony!
@alanmccluskey1143 жыл бұрын
On the hookup in the seventies for willy walton
@jamesellison61543 жыл бұрын
Wouldn't have ever imagined the vis being that good in the North Sea!
@paulsaunders6536 Жыл бұрын
Gin clear midwater. Gets very green when the plankton drifts through, almost no current to speak of, tidal rise and fall is minimal in the Ninian Field. I dived on all 3 Platforms between 1984-1986. We even had a diving bell operating between the Jarlon wall and the central column on Ninian Central. Interesting times, short bursts of hyper activity punctuated by long periods of unemployment. A few divers made a very comfortable living the rest of us struggled to get by. 3-4 months work was a good season for an air diver back then. £15-18k a year. These days a saturation diver earns around £35k per month in sat, before tax at 40%. Nice work if you can get it, most can’t. Very little air diving offshore these days, it’s all sat.
@salomaomoura16493 жыл бұрын
Merecem Ganha mais Dinheiro do que Astronauta Pelo fato Dessa Profissão Ser mais!! Perigosa do Mundo que o Espaço.🌎🎠🌈
@vz95193 жыл бұрын
Astronauta é MUITO concorrido, enquanto o mergulho comercial não for muito conhecido e mais concorrido, acho que não vai subir o salário
@salomaomoura16493 жыл бұрын
Esses Profissionais podem meche Com Máquinas Subaquáticas.??
@vz95193 жыл бұрын
Sim
@Blastfence13 жыл бұрын
Some guys have all the fun and don’t have to work much and get paid the big bucks!
@nickhajek38074 жыл бұрын
No bubbles out of exhaust?
@kf85754 жыл бұрын
Theyre breathing Heliox, what they exhale is taken back through part of their umbilical to the ship, and put through scrubbers, to remove the CO2 and recycle it. Helium (therefore heliox, which is a blend of Helium and Oxygen) is an expensive gas lol
@frogsgottalent11063 жыл бұрын
The gas is ' Reclaimed ' . Because Heliox is expensive, the gas returns up a hose within the umbilical bundle.
@paulsaunders6536 Жыл бұрын
If saturation divers exhaled to the ocean you’d need another vessel along side the DSV just to carry the gas.
@grahamroberts465 Жыл бұрын
I was on that platform 1991-1993, never saw it from that angle!
@bluedinero30554 жыл бұрын
Id be too scared of a giant kraken finding me 😭
@cmomofilm4 жыл бұрын
I've worked in drilling on all the Ninians, just watched Last Breath on Netflix. I'd rather be on the platform! lol
@UWfalcin4 жыл бұрын
And also if you perhaps have something from the Falklands war? I don’t know too much about it but I met a man in Thailand last year who claimed that he was a diver of the submarine who sank Belgrano. I don’t remember what he called the sub.
@UWfalcin4 жыл бұрын
Tony, it would be awesome if you were willing to upload more sat dive footage. There is just too little on youtube when it comes to this subject. 😁
@UWfalcin4 жыл бұрын
Amazing. :) This is what I’m working atm to become.
@Groupie594 жыл бұрын
Go for it Dee[ Sea.
@paulsaunders6536 Жыл бұрын
Good luck. For every diver on 100k plus a year there’s a hundred that can’t even get a start offshore. Quite a few of the old hands are just that. Old. 50-60 is not uncommon. It’s a great job if you can get the work. Be prepared for long periods of unemployment and perpetual disappointment, unless you are related to an offshore diving manager. If you aren’t you’ve got an uphill struggle in front of you.
@UWfalcin Жыл бұрын
@@paulsaunders6536 I’m in the industry nowadays, inshore that is. My impression of meeting sat divers is that it is definitely not impossible
@UWfalcin Жыл бұрын
@@paulsaunders6536 My colleague who goes offshore a few times a year has work at the company I work for now whenever he comes home so I’m not sure feast or famine is a thing in Sweden. Here we are fully employed divers working 7-4 and going home every evening.
@worstgamer1162Ай бұрын
Wooww!! Go job man! I see yo pfp rhat you are indeed now a diver. Quick question, what school did you go to for the job? @@UWfalcin
@3niknicholson4 жыл бұрын
an Acergy Tiger with a SIT camera that still works!
@williamstilson72075 жыл бұрын
Where is/ what is this?
@alexmacdiver4 жыл бұрын
"Ninian South" is an Oil platform in the Northsea. The vertical tubes are "conductors" which are part of the process of getting the oil out of the seabed.
@kayakingphotos5 жыл бұрын
WOW... Very nice.
@liketrumpets079 жыл бұрын
amazing footage! that angle in which it's filmed is almost like a 3rd person computer game. Just on the second read through of Diver - cheers for the insight Tony. Even though i knew what was coming from the Capnot story i still burst out with laughter!
@Groupie594 жыл бұрын
Glad you're enjoying it James.
@jaysonfisher10413 жыл бұрын
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@johnathanronnie74963 жыл бұрын
@Jayson Fisher instablaster ;)
@jaysonfisher10413 жыл бұрын
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@jaysonfisher10413 жыл бұрын
@Johnathan Ronnie It did the trick and I now got access to my account again. I'm so happy! Thanks so much, you saved my ass !
@DouglasNordhaug11 жыл бұрын
You guys are dumbasses
@ibrahimlodhi1911 жыл бұрын
This might be a stupid question but when coming out of water, is it easy to get up by holding the rope and just climbing your way up it hard? Like you are in the water so it must be right?
@DarkFiber2312 жыл бұрын
or work your way down, as it were.
@Groupie5912 жыл бұрын
Thanks Yob. Glad you enjoyed it. Its not that bad a job. I've never had to work in doors or had a 9 till 5, so that to me is success.
@yobolion12 жыл бұрын
Do you still Sat dive Tony or recreational dive? You mentioned in the book that Sat diving was easier on the joints than having to come up everyday from shallower depths! I've liked your book on Amazon so my Facebook friends can buy and read it!
@Groupie5912 жыл бұрын
Cheers Yo. Glad you enjoyed it. I often wonder if Capnot is still alive somewhere?
@yobolion12 жыл бұрын
Just read your brilliant book Tony! Entertaining as well as informative, I have trouble trying to clear my mask in recreational scuba. Makes me appreciate how challenging a job commercial diving must be.
@Groupie5912 жыл бұрын
In my experience, no it doesn't. Deep air is far more damaging. In sat you only decompress once at the end of the sat. Deep air your body goes through that every day, or every dive. There are 60 year old sat divers in the North sea and they're fine and still doing it.
@Mike-0123412 жыл бұрын
Does long term saturation diving do damage to the body? A neurologist once told me the MRI scans she saw of some old saturation divers looked awful. I don't know maybe they had been bent a bunch of times.
@Groupie5912 жыл бұрын
You can have a helium box to slow down the speech. That works, but obviously you don't have one each. The supervisors and LST's have them so they can understand you when you're deep.
@KaozKreations12 жыл бұрын
Wow! Amazing!
@xrendezv0usx12 жыл бұрын
cool watch!
@BlackDogDenton12 жыл бұрын
Charlie: HAMMERED
@BlackDogDenton12 жыл бұрын
Ended up being A L'N'L track xD haha
@TheFabiomansella12 жыл бұрын
woooww
@Groupie5912 жыл бұрын
Cheers.
@bfmv4ever112 жыл бұрын
Epic harvey !!
@Respectloyalty112 жыл бұрын
30k seems low. How up to date is this video, has much changed since this video was created?
@Groupie5912 жыл бұрын
This is an old system now. There are much bigger bells on the new builds. Has the gom fallen behind a bit then? Tony
@Groupie5912 жыл бұрын
There no air. Just Oxy Helium.
@efprax12 жыл бұрын
for the breathing air do they use a oxygen helium mix?
@Groupie5913 жыл бұрын
About 30k.
@Groupie5913 жыл бұрын
No. He would've just breathed air as he was always at atmospheric pressure.
@cyprescrow13 жыл бұрын
What heroes....amazing...You guys make astronauts come across as mere kindergarten stuff....(all respect to the space travellers...not my intention to neither compare nor insult anyone) ......
@BradBaldwintheDrumm13 жыл бұрын
Ok I recorded some helium speak and then slowed it down, it does work! Cool!
@BradBaldwintheDrumm13 жыл бұрын
OK thanks I was thinking that but wasn't sure. Do you think James Cameron had to breathe any gases or is it not necessary if he didn't leave the vessel?
@Groupie5913 жыл бұрын
Yes there is, it is slowed down, which has the effect of lowering the tone and you can understand it easier. Tony