Dive Support - North Sea

A few clips I put together from the ROV footage and GoPro we attached to it. Very clear conditions to dive in, at least for the North Sea, it was a good job with a good crew.
The original is HD, but my bandwidth won't allow me to post a file this size conveniently, I'll upload that when I get to civilisation!
Music: Dry The Rain by The Beta Band.

[@florianwolf9380]

These guys are absolutely hardcore - I salute you, stay safe !

[@seanc280]

Great video, and great music sat diving is awesome.

[@spherx.imperatix5012]

Superb vibes. Great song 🔥

[@freelectron2029]

the real reason this video was posted was because the pilots are showing off. and with good reason, that was some sweet flying. some real close stuff there. in australia as a diver the ROVs are never allowed to get that close to us. respect. nice work. they needed you there when lemon got abandoned. you would have had no problem picking him up and getting him back to the bell quicker than diver 2 could have id say.

[@adbb69]

Thanks for the comment freelectron, glad you liked the video. This was a really cool job to work on, some outfits don't want you anywhere near the divers which I totally understand, but this was a situation where everyone worked as a team, no us-and-them between the ROV squad and the divers and a lot of trust between everyone, and a lot of fun. Usual safety measures observed (never go over the diver's umbilical, don't position yourself upstream etc.), I was just a visiting freelancer so I was happy to go with the flow with how things were done there!

[@zatex4935]

Ainda trabalha com isso?

[@robertkingl4846]

Thank you for the footage, Kids loved it.

[@amiejohnston7405]

Great video Alasdair!

[@scubari]

Thanks for sharing Ali baby !

[@rovman007]

Super movie. Gives a nice view of our world

[@adbb69]

Thank you Loek, glad you like it. Just a small insight into some of the work that offshore divers do, in a very dangerous environment, to keep energy flowing. Oil: love it or hate it, right now we can't do without it ...

[@Anonym.6-e3v]

Very very cool

[@adbb69]

Thank you mr. diver, glad you enjoyed it.

[@jvdw8781]

So proud of my brother @rovpilot1

[@robsontrombone5149]

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[@rovpilot1]

Was fun to shoot, great times

[@adbb69]

That was a great trip Ralph! I think that was my last obs job, work-class since then ...

[@prahas777]

How deep did these guys go? How long was their decompression? It looks like the diving bell was open, so is this called saturation diving (like those 28 day stint some guys do)? Thanks. And super job on the filming...

[@henerymag]

At the bottom left of the screen it shows the depth in meters which is the depth of the ROV. It was 300 meters about as the ROV moves up or down. Deepest that I'v heard was by a Comex Hydra 10 diver who spent 7 hrs at 2,300 ft in 1992. It took 28 days to decompress in a chamber followed by 2.5 months of closely monitoring him.

[@UWfalcin]

henerymag That is insaaane. 28 days is how long North Sea divers are gone for and just that is hardcore

[@adbb69]

henerymag This was only shallow work, doing a bit of maintenance etc. to a platform in the North Sea. The three digit number in the circle on the left is actually the heading, hence it changes so quickly, the other number in there is the ‘turns counter’, how many times the ROV has spun around, this is so you can ‘unwind’ the umbilical before recovering to prevent damage to it. The number at the bottom right is the depth, in meters, very shallow at some points, that’s when it’s most dangerous for the ROV since the waves can smash it against the structure. The number top middle is how much umbilical you have out at that time. Some of the video has no telemetry on it, that’s footage that we got from a GoPro that we stuck on top for fun! Thanks for watching, hope you enjoyed it.

[@freelectron2029]

@@henerymag lol bottom left is the degrees of the compass the ROV is pointed. bottom right is the depth. this is not sat diving. this is only qir diving. very shallow.

[@pimpUK1]

hi guys, im a 30 year old HGV driver in the UK. I really want to switch careers and get into commercial diving. Would it be very hard? I know jobs are sparse at the moment so obviously wouldn't want to waste 10-20k if there no chance of a baby diver getting work

[@Bawsack121]

pimpUK1 ROV tech/operator is where it’s at in this line of work.

[@incrivelmentesatisfatorio3157]

what do you think of us being friends

[@280StJohnsPl]

Please remove the music