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  • : Histoires d'un scaphandrier or the Stories of a Commercial Diver
  • : Plongeur-Scaphandrier durant de très très nombreuses années, j'en ai vécu des choses sous eau et ailleurs. POUR VOIR TOUT LES ARTICLES PUBLIES ALLEZ AU BAS DE LA PAGE ET CLIQUER SUR TOP ARTICLES. TO SEE ALL THE STORIES GO AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE AND CLIC ON TOP ARTICLES
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  • HISTOIRE DU DECOUPAGE SOUS EAU (partie 5)

    01 mai 2016 ( #Plongée )

    Bonjour à tous, Pour ceux qui le souhaites vous pouvez maintenant télécharger et imprimer “La petite histoire du découpage sous eau “ dans son entièreté à: https://www.academia.edu/24940668/La_Petite_Histoire_du_D%C3%A9coupage_Sous_Eau La deuxième méthode...

  • Underwater cutting tools history (part 5)

    04 avril 2016 ( #Plongée )

    Hi every one, You can now download “The Little story of the Underwater Cutting” in one single printable document at: https://www.academia.edu/24883704/The_Little_Story_of_the_Underwater_Cutting The second method of cutting under water to have emerged...

  • TARASCO ou l’histoire d’une soudure hyperbare

    05 décembre 2016 ( #Plongée )

    Décembre 81, pour la cinquième fois de cette année je me retrouve à travailler dans le GOM (golfe du Mexique) sur le TARASCO. Mon arrivée à bord, ne s’est pas faite sans quelques émotions qui, je pense sont à l’origine de mes trois premiers cheveux gris....

  • Ariane 503 or the story of my last offshore project

    13 septembre 2015 ( #Plongée )

    It all started one fine winter morning in Berlin where I was working at the time on a huge underwater concrete construction where I was doing the night shift. I had just fallen asleep when the hotel phone rang. While gasping on the bastard who did not...

  • Mon premier chantier offshore

    06 mai 2015 ( #Plongée )

    Décembre 1974, cela faisait maintenant trois ans que je travaillais comme scaphandrier pour la petite entreprise de travaux sous-marins Anversoise (voir : Bougre d’assistant). Nous n’y étions que cinq plongeurs, patron inclus plus deux assistants, ce...

  • I'm a Sat Diver or the story of my first offshore work

    19 mai 2015 ( #Plongée )

    December 1974, already three years now that I worked as a diver for the small diving company from Antwerp (see: Stupid Diver). We were only five divers there, boss included plus two tenders, which meant many dives a week during which I have learned quite...

  • L'HISTOIRE DU DECOUPAGE SOUS EAU (partie n° 2)

    04 mai 2016 ( #Plongée )

    .. Bonjour à tous, Pour ceux qui le souhaites vous pouvez maintenant télécharger et imprimer “La petite histoire du découpage sous eau “ dans son entièreté à: https://www.academia.edu/24940668/La_Petite_Histoire_du_D%C3%A9coupage_Sous_Eau L’approche française...

  • TARASCO, or the story of a hyperbaric weld

    04 décembre 2016 ( #Plongée )

    December 81, for the fifth time this year I find myself working again in the GOM (Gulf of Mexico) on the TARASCO barge. My arrival on board did not happen without some mishaps that I think are at the root of my first three gray hairs. It all started on...

  • Underwater cutting tools history (part 3)

    06 avril 2016 ( #Plongée )

    Hi every one, You can now download “The Little story of the Underwater Cutting” in one single printable document at: https://www.academia.edu/24883704/The_Little_Story_of_the_Underwater_Cutting United States production of the first underwater torch returns...

  • HISTOIRE DU DECOUPAGE SOUS EAU (partie 3)

    03 mai 2016 ( #Plongée )

    Bonjour à tous, Pour ceux qui le souhaites vous pouvez maintenant télécharger et imprimer “La petite histoire du découpage sous eau “ dans son entièreté à: https://www.academia.edu/24940668/La_Petite_Histoire_du_D%C3%A9coupage_Sous_Eau Aux Etats-Unis...

  • Underwater cutting tools history (part two)

    07 avril 2016 ( #Plongée )

    ... Hi every one, You can now download “The Little story of the Underwater Cutting” in one single printable document at: https://www.academia.edu/24883704/The_Little_Story_of_the_Underwater_Cutting The French approach was quite different. They also understood...

  • HISTOIRE DU DECOUPAGE SOUS EAU (partie 4)

    02 mai 2016 ( #Plongée )

    Bonjour à tous, Pour ceux qui le souhaites vous pouvez maintenant télécharger et imprimer “La petite histoire du découpage sous eau “ dans son entièreté à: https://www.academia.edu/24940668/La_Petite_Histoire_du_D%C3%A9coupage_Sous_Eau Et chez nos collègues...

  • Me, Francis the fastest cutter at the east of Marseille

    14 mai 2016 ( #Plongée )

    I liked the nickname that had been given to me by Jean-Pierre I. one of the fathers of French professional dive tables, when he had come to visit us on jobsite. At the time, we were working on the DSV ORELIA in the waters of the Persian Gulf on the famous...

  • L’HISTOIRE DU DECOUPAGE SOUS EAU (première partie)

    05 mai 2016 ( #plongée )

    Bonjour à tous, Pour ceux qui le souhaites vous pouvez maintenant télécharger et imprimer “La petite histoire du découpage sous eau “ dans son entièreté à: https://www.academia.edu/24940668/La_Petite_Histoire_du_D%C3%A9coupage_Sous_Eau Comme vous avez...

  • Underwater cutting tools history (part one)

    09 avril 2016 ( #Plongée )

    Hi every one, You can now download “The Little story of the Underwater Cutting” in one single printable document at: https://www.academia.edu/24883704/The_Little_Story_of_the_Underwater_Cutting As you may have realized from reading some of my stories...

  • Underwater cutting tools history (part 4)

    05 avril 2016 ( #Plongée )

    Hi every one, You can now download “The Little story of the Underwater Cutting” in one single printable document at: https://www.academia.edu/24883704/The_Little_Story_of_the_Underwater_Cutting And with our English colleagues? It is difficult to say who...

  • The salvage of the DN31

    04 avril 2015 ( #Plongée )

    Wednesday, December 8, 2010, as usual, the DN31 dredge is busy to level the bottom in front of the Berendrecht lock. In the sluice, the Crystal Topaz tanker prepares to come out of it with the assistance of a pilot. 9:20 pm, the door opens and the tanker...

  • Viva Espana or the Story of my first bounce dive

    09 juillet 2015 ( #Plongée )

    Barely a week after returning from my first offshore job, my boss Michel was already on the phone to tell me that I had to go back on JB4. - What do you mean with I have to leave for the North Sea I told him, this is not what was agreed between us. -...

  • BOUM-BOUM in Cameroun

    06 mai 2015 ( #Plongée )

    In November 1990, an oil company based in Cameroon decided to remove two old wellheads and a signaling spar from a dry up field and therefore called to the company I was working for. In those years the most commonly used methods for this type of dismantling...

  • Lost at sea

    22 août 2015 ( #Plongée )

    End 93, I received a phone call from Marseille. The big House offered me a Mooring Master Supervisor position in Cameroon to replace the old Raymond, who was retiring. - MMS, this title looks good, I replied, but I do not even know of what it consists....

  • La drôle d’histoire de 3 plongeurs nucléaires

    23 mai 2009 ( #Plongée )

    En 2005, un fournisseur d’électricité bien connu, prit contact avec nous pour préparer un travail d’investigation dans une de ses piscines de désactivation qui en fonction des résultats rencontrés pourrait éventuellement se terminer par le soudage sous...

  • A little story of a saturation dive

    30 juillet 2015 ( #Plongée )

    Year of our Lord 1981. It is now a few days that I’m aboard the DSV Tarasco who is currently working in the Gulf of the Mexico. Marseille operations service has sent me here because apart my offshore work that I started again a few months ago, I also...

  • Help! Help! Diver is burning

    11 avril 2015 ( #Plongée )

    We are in September 96 a few hours before my working week stops. I’m finishing a little intervention in a French river when suddenly my beeper informs me that I have to call my boss. Shit, that will probably mean that the nice week end I had planned to...

  • Divers, to avoid getting divorced, beware of ACID FLIES!

    23 mars 2018 ( #Plongée )

    During the 1990s, my work led me to spend many months in Nigeria where as I already mentioned elsewhere the living conditions were not always very easy. Moreover, in this country, despite the fact that we were at sea, we regularly had the visit of various...

  • The story of a nearly crushed diver

    28 février 2015 ( #Plongée )

    During my offshore period, I also got used to work from time to time in Belgium for my former colleague Rik who had created his own diving company. This allowed me to not lose my experience in civil engineering which unlike offshore diving was most of...

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