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HI 176 October 2000
Three-sided clamp fit up between two pin piles and a 48" casing.
Also installed was a riser, a riser guard, and a boat landing.

 
 
Echo gas platform, APCO's Ardjuna field
Java Sea, Indonesia

For a few days prior to this riser inspection, we had been swimming pipelines around this platform and placing buoys on them so that boats would know where they were as a construction barge was on its way.

A Permina Supply boat picked up this pipeline in its anchor and actually pulled the pipeline the full 150 feet to the surface. The crew then freed the pipeline and they pretended nothing had happened.

Photo: Paul Richards


 
 


We'll leave the light on for you...
Cal Dive's Uncle John during the Flotel project
29/OCT/00 off the coast of Mexico in the Bay of Campeche.

 

Chuck C.
Lafayette, LA

 
 
Breaking Flanges in Australia
From Paul Richards
Here's what happens if you believe people instead of checking for yourself. Fortunately this is blowing not sucking.

The men on the storage barge in the background had told us that the production line had been changed over to an export line. They had been on the SBM and we saw no reason to not beleive them.

When the divers hit the flange with the rattle gun they started at the bottom and 100,000 barrels a day of oil greeted them. They swam over to the ladder at did the cross over themselves. I went up to my cabin and got my camera but had to wait for it to unfog before taking the photo. The spray was much higher at first, what is coming out when I took the photo is oil that has gone up to the barge and is coming back down the floating hose as the guys on the barge are closing the valve on the barge.. The oil is actually going down and bouncing off the water.


 
 

Nose Art
E. Syrdahl
How to break in a new hat
Beer Art
The Badger
New hat being properly broken in..

 
 
Airlifting at VK 155, September 2000

 
 

Another beautiful day in the Gulf.
Eric Syrdahl tended by Tom Elwell
out in Vermillion block.

Dan Wilkes in Ship Shoals
ANOTHER beautiful day in the Gulf

 
 
 
Will D.
New Orleans, LA
Sea Dog

Mobile Bay July 2000
D. Cunniff emptying his pockets
2 tape measures, 1 chipping hammer,
a torpedo level,  a sand dollar,
3 sea shells and 2 hermit crabs.

 

Horse Mesa Dam, Arizona

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Divecon Services in Oxnard, CA., formerly Stolt's west coast branch, is alive and
kicking. Here are some pics from a recent job they did in Arizona. Horse
Mesa dam on Apache lake. 260' FFW. They stayed in a resort when off shift. Hard life.

 

email pics to offshorediver.com Another Gulf tender who showed promise but, ultimately, couldn't hang. Too bad MH - we liked ya.

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