Shoutout to that crazy Monday in the Gulf where everything went sideways

I was doing a pipeline inspection off the coast of Louisiana, 90 feet down, and visibility was maybe 2 inches after a storm rolled through. My air hose got snagged on some old wreckage and I spent 20 minutes cutting it free with my knife, barely able to see my own hands. Then my comms unit started crackling and I lost topside for almost 10 minutes. I finished the dive and got my bonus, but I swear that week kept me up for days after. Has anyone else had a dive where the conditions just kept piling on like that and you had to decide whether to abort or push through?

3 comments

3 Comments

adams.harper2mo ago

Tbh, that sounds like a rough day but isn't that just part of the job?

averywright17d ago

Heard a story from my buddy who works in IT about a day where everything just kept breaking. Like, servers going down, printers catching fire (not literally, but close), and a client screaming at him for an hour. He told me he sat in his car for ten minutes after work just staring at the steering wheel, you know? Turned out it was a combo of a bad update and someone tripping over a power cord in the server room, so not really his fault at all. Some days just pile up like that, even if you're doing your best.

mason_flores212mo ago

Did you ever figure out what made that day so rough, or was it just one of those things? For me, I started keeping a small list of what went wrong and tweaking one thing at a time, and it helped smooth out the worst days.