"Brad" <bradleyden@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Just cross posting this for reality check
>
>
> "Timantide" <Timantide.38sx4q@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
> message news:Timantide.38sx4q@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> :
> : Next time you have a bad day at work...think of this guy: Rob is a
> : commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana. He
performs
> : underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs. Below is an E-mail he
sent
> : to his sister. She then sent it to Laughline, who was sponsoring a
> : "worst job experience" contest. Needless to say, she won.
> :
> : Hi Sue,
> :
> : Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother. Last week I had
> : bad day at the office. I know you've been feeling down lately at work,
> : so I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you realize
it's
> : not so bad after all.
> :
> : Before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must bore you with
a
> : few technicalities of my job. As you know, my office lies at the
bottom
> : of the sea. I wear a suit to the office. It's a wetsuit. This time of
> : year the water is quite cool. So what we do to keep warm is this: We
> : have a diesel powered industrial water heater. This $20,000 piece of
> : equipment sucks the water out of the sea. It heats it to a delightful
> : temperature. It then pumps it down to the diver through a garden hose,
> : which is taped to the air hose. Now this sounds like a darn good plan,
> : and I've used it several times with no complaints. What I do, when I
get
> : to the bottom and start working, is take the hose and stuff it down
the
> : back of my wetsuit. This floods my whole suit with warm water. It's
like
> : working in a Jacuzzi.
> :
> : Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my butt started to
> : itch. So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse.
Within
> : a few seconds my butt started to burn. I pulled the hose out from my
> : back, but the damage was done. In agony I realized what had happened.
> : The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it into my
> : suit. Now since I don't have any hair on my back, the jellyfish
couldn't
> : stick to it. However, the crack of my butt was not as fortunate. When
I
> : scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the
> : jellyfish into my butt. I informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma
> : over the communicator. His instructions were unclear due to the fact
> : that he, along with 5 other divers, were all laughing hysterically.
> : Needless to say I aborted the dive. I was instructed to make 3
agonizing
> : in-water decompression stops totaling 35 minutes before I could reach
> : the surface to begin my chamber dry decompression. When I arrived at
the
> : surface, I was wearing nothing but my brass helmet. As I climbed out
of
> : the water, the medic, with tears of laughter running down his face,
> : handed me a tube of cream and told me to rub it on my butt as soon as
I
> : got in the chamber. The cream put the fire out, but I couldn't poop
for
> : 2 days because my butthole was swollen shut.
> :
> : So, next time you're having a bad day at work, think about how much
> : worse it would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your butt.
It's ten years old.
It's about time for a fire diving post, as well.
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A skilled, armed man lives on a plane of security and contentment
different from that of others. The man who cannot cut it, envies,
fears and sometimes hates the man who can. -Cooper
Popeye/ www.finalprotectivefire.com
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