Had a talk with a marine biologist that flipped my view on a salvage job

We were working near the Port of Tampa, and she mentioned that a 'clean' hull we'd just prepped for a client was actually covered in a specific, non-native barnacle. She said, 'That's not grime, that's a bioindicator for polluted water.' It hit different because I'd spent two days scrubbing it off, thinking it was just regular fouling. Anyone else had a job where the science changed how you saw the actual work?

2 comments

2 Comments

walker.hayden10d ago

Wow, that's a real gut punch. You're just doing your job, cleaning a hull, and then find out you were basically erasing a warning sign. Changes the whole meaning of the work from cleaning to... hiding a problem. Makes you wonder what else we're scrubbing away without knowing. That marine biologist gave you a whole new lens to see through, for sure.

-1

caleb_ellis10d ago

Ever wonder what else we're blindly cleaning away, @walker.hayden?