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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...
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La collègue que j'aurais aimé avoir. An de grâce 1981. Cela fait maintenant quelques jours que je suis arrivé à bord du DSV Tarasco qui travaille actuellement dans le golfe du Mexique. Le service des opérations de Marseille m’a envoyé ici parce que hormis...
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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 to 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. -...
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December 1974, it had been three years now that I had worked as a diver for the small diving company in Antwerp (see: Stupid Diver). We were only five divers there, the boss included plus two tenders, which meant many dives a week during which I have...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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In 2005, a well-known electricity supplier, made contact with us to plan an accurate inspecting work in one of its fuel pools which could in function of the encountered results lead to the welding of a small patch. As one might imagine, welding under...
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