We All Dive To Feed Our Families

Offshore, Inland, Harvest, Union, Non-Union

First let me say, I think what dive helmet a diver wears is a very personal thing. You do your best work and are safest in what you are comfortable with. The problem was, here in the good old USA, we have been down to one reliable hat maker. No more Joe Savoie, no more Ben Miller. That has now changed Bev Morgan has some competition Les Gorski!

When the opportunity came to test dive the Gorski, in real work conditions, I jumped at it. Here is what I think: The Gorski is a solid, low maintenance dive hat, that breather’s easer then any hat I’ve ever had on my head.  

Three things to that stand out

1) The Helmet is solid stainless steel.

2)  The regulator is completely housed inside that stainless steel body.

3) The regulator is off the shelf.

When you get ready to buy consider it.

 

A little good discussion on what a Tender and Supervisor should be doing started with this post I made.

Hey Guys found a real interesting sight with PDF down loads. It is called. History of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry and its Effects on Louisiana. It comes at it from all angles. 

http://gulfoil.bara.arizona.edu/
(for those interested check it out)

The first reply:  hey you old muddafker why don’t you shove that little camera of yours right up your arse!  yeah we divers stick together hu old bastard? fkn bacstabbing sumb###h rat bastard!

Of course I don’t reply to those who don’t have the Gawholees to put their name to what they have to say so it dragged on and own with the main point being I am a “rat Bastard” or the god of diving.

When a good diver I have worked before put his name on a not so nice post. I replied with: 

1. I didn't take the picture

2 I didn't send it to (Company Name)

3. The not tending the diver and no lifejackets had gone for days

4. I run my own jobs not other peoples. I also take the rap when I’ve messed up, not try to make it everyone else’s fault.

John Carl Roat

The diver being the man he is replied with:

then I formally apologize for making that mistake. I should have known it wasn’t you.

That’s when it went from me being either a rat bastard or god of diving, to honest discussion on how things are and should be.  There are two postings that some up everything as I see it. One guy called himself “Owner” and the other called himself “Confussed Tender”

The “Owner” post:

Some of you don't seem to get the picture. Go back and read the first Roat Deal

< style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;">Not Tending the Diver

To many times the diver’s hose is not tended while the tender does something else. Below are the Federal Regulation and my thoughts.

The way I see it, it’s about the only unequivocal regulation dealing with diving. If you are instructing others to put down the divers hose or are putting down the divers hose and leaving the diver untended, you are not only endangering his life but making yourself and the company subject to legal” action.

Confussed Tender Posted:

lets see the minute I don’t put down the divers hose and run the tugger when my sup tells me my girl friend and baby don’t eat well mr. owner get control of the guys you send out to run the jobs.

For me the “Owner” did speak the truth and “Confussed Tender” told it like it is.

I want to close with a poem that a diver who would rather go un named wrote.

An oil rig far in the cold North Sea,
A shipping port on the Chesapeake,
A power dam on a Utah lake,
An L.A. harbor water intake,
A barge in the Gulf of Mexico,
It's never certain where he might go.
No matter where the job or what the plan,
You can depend on a deep sea diving man.

Welding steel and blasting rock,
Inspecting hulls, building docks,
Jetting sand, laying pipelines long,
It's been some time since he's been home.
Working with his heart and hands,
He's known as a deep sea diving man.

Footprints where surf's spray is cast,
Footprints left as he walked past,
A man alone with his thoughts,
Of what he's gained and what he's lost.
Surely God will find it in His heart,
To touch the depths, the cold, the dark,
And bless this life that few understand,
The life of a deep sea diving man.

What do you think? click here to email Roat I will do my best to answer any response to the things I say. That is, if you put your name and e-mail address with it. If there is no name and e-mail address, I won’t post your e-mail and I won’t respond.  If you just want to let everyone know how you fell about what I say, without putting your name on it, post it on the discussion board. Dive Safe and Profitable John Carl Roat