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Back when we used Kirby Morgan 17s for everything
Pulled out my old logbook from 2004 yesterday and saw a job in the Gulf where we did 6 hours bottom time on a single 17. No hot water suits, just dry gloves and a prayer lol. Anyone else miss how simple the gear was back then or am I just getting old?
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julia_jones722mo ago
Oh man, I used to totally disagree with all the nostalgia for the old gear... thought people were just romanticizing the hard times. But then I had to switch to a modern setup on a job last year and honestly it changed my mind completely, sometimes simpler really was better.
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davis.linda2mo ago
Whoa, wait, six hours on a single 17 with no hot water? That's wild, man. Honestly, I can't even wrap my head around that these days. @julia_jones72 you're totally right, sometimes the new stuff just makes things more complicated than they need to be. I've heard guys talk about those old setups and it just sounds brutal, I'm honestly a little shocked you made it through a shift like that.
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