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Chaos on Deck

B efore my late-night dive, midway through the project we had several breakdowns. The equipment we had on board were two 5120 diesel air compressors. They usually work very well, but this job seemed to be what I call: snake bit... What some people might refer to as jinxed or cursed. After a few days of use, both 5120’s broke down, so we were now relying on the two small electric compressors located down in the barge decompression room. The trouble didn’t end there, we were informed the night of my dive, one of our electric compressors had blown a cooling line and was of no use. At this point, we should have halted the operation until everything was replaced, but time and money were more important, than the lives of our dive team. Go figure… a major dive company watching out for a few humans. Not a chance!