Offshore Diver

Photo Gallery

Some of the vessels working the Bay of Campeche
Summer 2001
Photos from C. Walls

Cal Dive sat boat Witch Queen at structure AKAL Juliet in the Bay of Campeche
Derrick Barge Atlantic Horizon
McDermott's DB 101
Mixteco barge with sat system under the crane boom

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Pictures and text from Paul Richards.
Richards has been diving 20+ years. These pictures go back to the 70's and 80's.

	Oceaneering's Ocean Diver 1. In the background is Atwoo Oceanic's Gettysburg. Under the control shack, is a Wilson side mating bell system. The photo was taken around 1975/1976 at Bombay High. I was on the drill ship Dalmahoy. We were recovering the stack after it had snapped off when the ship dragged anchors when a cyclone [hurricane to you] hit it. The Gettysburg was brough in to drill a hole into the Dalmahoy's hole to cement up it in.
I worked on the Independence for 4 years, when it was doing field maintenance in ARCO" Ardjuna field in the Java Sea, Indonesia 76 to 80.
	The white stuff in the water are bubbles from a blow out. Just this side of the bubbles lies the Milton G. Hume. It was a jack up. Years later when the bubbles died down, the rig was salvaged. They didn't bother doing anything with the bubbles as it is only carbon dioxide. One day for lack of something better to do we drove the Independence through the bubble. It sank about a foot and the engines went into overspeed.
Independence main deck looking aft. The Derrick / lay barge (astern the Independence) was the DB 26 or 29. It was the one that capsized off Taiwan with the 4 divers in sat.
	Benny and I after another days hard work. I git the 2 snapper and Benny got the others. (Benny) was killed when the Ocean Princess(?) capsized in the Gulf of Thailand around 1990. He drowned and his body was found washed up on a beach.
The scuba tank gives an idea of the size of the barracoota. These babies would bite fish off our spears and leave grooves in the stainless shaft.