Just saw some wild stuff on a job at the Port of Tacoma last week...

We were doing a hull clean on a big container ship, and I saw a diver using a regular old paint scraper on the growth instead of a proper hull cleaning tool. It was taking him forever and leaving marks. I get that gear is expensive, but that's just asking for a complaint from the ship owner. Has anyone else run into guys using the wrong tools to save a few bucks?

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jackson.jenny7mo ago

Yeah, a paint scraper? That's brutal. Did you see what kind of growth it was? Heavy barnacles would just wreck that edge and the hull coating.

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phoenix_lopez6mo ago

Used to think that was fine, but seeing the damage changed my mind.

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burns.ruby6mo ago

Remember scraping my own hull, phoenix_lopez, and the awful sound it made.

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