Dive Support - North Sea 

Thanks for the comment freelectron, glad you liked the video. This was a really cool job to work on, some outfits don't want you anywhere near the divers which I totally understand, but this was a situation where everyone worked as a team, no us-and-them between the ROV squad and the divers and a lot of trust between everyone, and a lot of fun. Usual safety measures observed (never go over the diver's umbilical, don't position yourself upstream etc.), I was just a visiting freelancer so I was happy to go with the flow with how things were done there!

Ainda trabalha com isso?

Thank you mr. diver, glad you enjoyed it.

Thank you Loek, glad you like it. Just a small insight into some of the work that offshore divers do, in a very dangerous environment, to keep energy flowing. Oil: love it or hate it, right now we can't do without it ...

That was a great trip Ralph! I think that was my last obs job, work-class since then ...

At the bottom left of the screen it shows the depth in meters which is the depth of the ROV. It was 300 meters about as the ROV moves up or down. Deepest that I'v heard was by a Comex Hydra 10 diver who spent 7 hrs at 2,300 ft in 1992. It took 28 days to decompress in a chamber followed by 2.5 months of closely monitoring him.

henerymag That is insaaane. 28 days is how long North Sea divers are gone for and just that is hardcore

henerymag This was only shallow work, doing a bit of maintenance etc. to a platform in the North Sea. The three digit number in the circle on the left is actually the heading, hence it changes so quickly, the other number in there is the ‘turns counter’, how many times the ROV has spun around, this is so you can ‘unwind’ the umbilical before recovering to prevent damage to it. The number at the bottom right is the depth, in meters, very shallow at some points, that’s when it’s most dangerous for the ROV since the waves can smash it against the structure. The number top middle is how much umbilical you have out at that time. Some of the video has no telemetry on it, that’s footage that we got from a GoPro that we stuck on top for fun! Thanks for watching, hope you enjoyed it.

@@henerymag lol bottom left is the degrees of the compass the ROV is pointed. bottom right is the depth. this is not sat diving. this is only qir diving. very shallow.

pimpUK1 ROV tech/operator is where it’s at in this line of work.