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?

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adams.harper1mo ago

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

mason_flores211mo 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.