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Reading an old salvage report from the 80s and the depth numbers blew my mind
I was going through some archived project files from a company that used to work in the Gulf of Mexico. I found a handwritten log for a pipeline repair job from 1985. The diver's notes listed a working depth of 850 feet on air, with a total bottom time of just 12 minutes. I had to double check that, because today that's a hard hat saturation dive without question. It really shows how much the safety standards and tech have changed. Has anyone else come across old logs with procedures that would be totally unthinkable now?
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thomas29120d ago
Wow, that's absolutely wild. They were basically playing Russian roulette with the bends back then. It's a miracle anyone survived those old procedures.
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abbyc3320d ago
Yeah, it's like that with a lot of old stuff... my grandpa's car didn't even have seatbelts. The rules back then were just different, you know?
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