what kind of boat is that?
Best of luck to ya!
Good luck, hope you pass.
Good luck! Go get it!
Impressive man. I wish you the best. I'm sure you will nail it.
Good luck :)
Thanks everyone for the good wishes! You’re the best.
Good luck, so you are a spare time developer? :o
Yeah I did a lot of the development on barrens chat whilst I was at sea believe it or not. I deployed three patches over the ship’s satellite internet :lol:
what kind of boat is that?
It’s a saturation diving support vessel. 120m length (thats about 350ft for you muricans) - we do subsea construction (pipelines, manifolds, generators) from seabed to surface.
My job is to navigate her across the ocean when we’re transiting to a new job, and when we’re diving I hold the boat in position above the worksite. I do a month on and then have a month off.
The divers are the real superstars - they work at mad depths (up to about 200m - 600ft) doing very intense work on expensive assets. They’re like freaking astronauts - they stay pressurised to the depth they are working at for the whole month. So they live in saturation chambers onboard the ship and are fed through an airlock and go to their shift by way of a diving bell - all kept at the correct pressure.
Here’s a pic of a deep sea diver off wikipedia:
I just drink tea and look out of the window lol
I just drink tea and look out of the window lol
Dream job.
Good luck man, sure you'll ace it!
Don't you sail a boat Teeb, not a good start for you to get that wrong kek :D. Good luck dude!
Captain Teebs is an amazing pirate name.
Good luck teebs! Good timing to finish up just before Classic's release. :lol:
Excited to see these changes too once you're back!
Good luck Captain Teebling!
two weeks huh, justttt enough time to get back right before classic hits off, good luck mane
gg ez
The divers are the real superstars - they work at mad depths (up to about 200m - 600ft) doing very intense work on expensive assets. They’re like freaking astronauts - they stay pressurised to the depth they are working at for the whole month. So they live in saturation chambers onboard the ship and are fed through an airlock and go to their shift by way of a diving bell - all kept at the correct pressure.
Here’s a pic of a deep sea diver off wikipedia:
Sounds pretty intense. They must get paid big money for that kind of work.
Do they at least get to play WoW in their saturation chambers?
Good luck! I hope you will get your stripes!
Sounds pretty intense. They must get paid big money for that kind of work.
£1000 a day if they're in saturation, so in a 30 day trip they can make up to £30k.
Best of lucks Teebs, I'm sure you will do fine :)
I clearly picked the wrong proffession :p
Sounds pretty intense. They must get paid big money for that kind of work.
£1000 a day if they're in saturation, so in a 30 day trip they can make up to £30k.
Now that's some fuckin hazard pay right there. I can't imagine what living at pressure for a month does to the body long term. I understand the need for it, the body doesn't like pressure fluctuations so if you're working at depth then you want to stay at depth pressure. But still I wonder what that does to the body.
How did you end up in the position to be driving a boat like that? You're probably the first saturation diving support vessel captain any of us have ever talked to :lol:
But still I wonder what that does to the body.
No one knows really - there haven’t been any long term studies made. I asked this question too.
I’m not going for a Captain’s ticket just yet! I’m being examined for competency at the Officer of the Watch (OOW) level - so I’m one of the navigators on the bridge team under the Master. To be the Master of a ship takes decades of experience though I certainly want to be there one day :smile:
To be honest mate I haven’t got a fucking clue how I ended up where I did haha. I went from web developer, to spanish degree graduate, to english teacher and then to a deck cadet in the merchant marine.
Jon Bloodspray is an ex-sailor too though he worked the cruise ships.