Your "blade" is a drywall mud knife and your small "blade" is a paint scraper and the round part on the paint scraper scraps the paint down/off a paint roller....its actually a multi tool ....satisfying video 📹
When you dropped tool I was like "Nah, to hell with diving for that. Go back to the surface for a brand new one". Kudos guys, I couldn't do this job (I recently discovered I have a silly phobia) but I'm intrigued.
The 12" blade is a stainless steel taping knife available at Lowes. Blue steel = a lot of rust = a bad edge = a lot of paint damage when cleaned. The 6in1 tool is a Purdy brand stainless steel tool available at Sherwin Williams stores. Be sure you get the STAINLESS version, not the carbon steel version. Both tools are tied to a STAINLESS STEEL bolt snap, available in the sailing section at West Marine. Rust = the enemy. Over time, rust scratches bottom paint and makes your job harder and harder.
this is exactly what i wanna do. Make my own business cleaning hulls on yachts n boats. What would u think wold be a reasonable pay for square ft? like 10-15$?
The epic music made it less scary to watch. I got a fear of being underwater and not being able to touch anything but these videos are jus tso fascinating.
I had a similar business in Australia but doing smaller vessel and my first boat was a sailing vessel called ODYSEE, about 45 years ago, we used an hydraulic operated brush then, absolutely loved the work, kept me very fit, I had a few close call from sharks, giant gropers and once a crock and still loved it, and if the opportunity arrived I would still do it
My boat has only two through hulls for the engine intakes. This boat has way more than I would be comfortable with. Just got the same paint roller scraper. Perfect for the drive shafts. Gonna drill a hole through the zink Alan key, so I can tie them to my wrist. Dropped a couple already. Have thirteen zinks to replace 🙄
Ive seen guys using a pressure washer under water. Had suction things and line to anchor themselves to the vessel and cranked up the psi and it looked like it worked great
John Rambo we have used pressure washers lots of times, but never with any luck. We find that doing these things by hand is not only easier and cheaper, but gets the job done faster.
Man I need a job like this! I'm a NewEngland Surfer even cold water surfing doesn't matter if its 15 degrees blowing 50 plus I'm out there surfing a wave lol .. I was lucky enough to grow up by the ocean just a short 2 min bike ride and I was there .. I'm definitely going to look into this trade!! ( A clean ocean is a happy ocean ) #bigblue #keepinSalty 🤙🏽
02:40 but still watching, this is so interesting! Would a pressure washer take too much blue paint off, as I was thinking it might be easier to work with? What about on the running gear, is a pressure washer not ok on there?
Hey! What if the intake cover has a ton of barnacles inside? I see that you broke them up but I have a boat where the slits are too small to fit a blade in and I can’t get my screwdriver in the screws to remove it.
liam forbes good question! We avoided brushing these propellers with a wire brush because the props are coated with a rather expensive product called "PropSpeed," which helps to resist marine fouling. The wire brush will remove that coating, which we do not want to do. Instead, we use stainless steel hand scraping tools (just like your decorating tools, but stainless steel) to very carefully remove whatever fouling is present - without disturbing the coating.
Awesome video i really enjoyed it, sorry i'm a little late to the party. Please in future videos turn the music down a little bit to make it more background music and keep up the great work!
How do you keep from pushing yourself away from the boat? It's like working in outer space. I got my PADI certification almost 30 years ago when I was 50. I would have liked to do what your doing. Enjoyed the video.
How to get this job...... Propeller polishing and hull cleaning jobs..... Please help me.... Which course is best for this job... I am from India...... I really love underwater jobs like this...... Help me
How much does this improve efficiency fuel wise, just a rough estimate? What are all of the through-hulls use for? The engine water intake vent looked really plugged it, this had to help with cooling, it look dangerously close to being one hundred percent clogged. I have to hand it to you, to do all this work for minimum wage demonstrates your love for your job.
I'm not sure where you got your information about wages, but it's not correct. 😁 We charge around $5/lineaf foot. A good day's work brings close to $1,000. Some of our military and commercial jobs can net $5k-$6k in a single afternoon. Piling cuts generally generate $150/piling. We did a job in another State that netted over $40k in three days recently cutting piles. This boat in this video generated an invoice of $293 in an hour and a half.
Summertime is my absolute least favorite season for hull cleaning. Marina I'm at we have a good population of resident tarpon and sometimes we get bullsharks in the marina basin and seein those goddamn shadows is nerve-wracking when you're knuckles-deep in a hull like this
That's cool job. I had never own a boat but I wanted to ask. How 1- long to do the next cleaning? 2- why the paint go out like that cheap one? Do they sell ecological paint one? 3- how much it cost the cleaning? 4- Do you do only small ship or you need other license for bigger one?
Cleaning frequency varies greatly per location, based on water temperature and available food. This particular boat gets cleaned every two weeks in the summertime and every 8 weeks in the winter because the water there is very warm, 100% salt, and daily tides of about 8 or 9 feet. It can shock even the most seasoned boater. Most boats in most places get cleaned like this every other month or so. The paint sloughs off like that by design. It's actually quite expensive paint that theoretically keeps itself clean by sloughing off little by little over time. I try not to take too much off during cleaning so that it can stay and do the job that it was designed to do. Cleaning of this boat was about $300. I do one or two of them pretty much every day, five days a week. :-)
DEEP SOUTH DIVERS wow very interesting. Thanks lot for the reply very appreciated. I see now why having a boat come down in many expenses... Now I get more better picture. I like that job I would do 6 days a week for me the water is very relaxing lol. Have a nice dive 😉
Thanks for asking, Paul! Yes... Later while inspecting the glove I found that a barnacle had punctured the glove right at the glove ring. Glove replaced; problem solved. :-)
Odis Harkins growth patterns vary greatly by locations and average water temperature, which is to say, seasonally. It also varies greatly depending on how much current on average is going by the vessel. The more current, the greater the food supply, the stronger and bigger and thicker the growth is. This client paid around $300 for this boat to be cleaned, which has an unusually clean hull with unusually dirty struts, shafts, through holes, trim tabs, props, etc. There is no one video that I have that summarizes an average of boat. Every boat is different and must be priced accordingly.
The camera settings are 1080p, superwide mode with wide mode on (as "fisheye" as possible, to counter the natural "zoom" effect of the water), 45 fps. Here's a video about the mask/light/camera setup: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2QuHQRnQ_QI.html Edited using the latest Cyberlink PowerDirector software.
Oh wow that's a pretty neat setup. The two lights(not cameras, oops xD) on the side really break up the lighting nicely. You make some pretty cool and interesting videos, man! Keep on keepin' on.
Thanks! The camera is in the center, in a waterproof housing because we sometimes go below the Session's 33ft depth limit. The housing helps protect the camera from bumps and scratches, too. The two black boxes on the sides are LumeCubes... Set on their lowest setting during video shoots. They last all day on that setting, and are small, lightweight, self-contained (no external battery), and very powerful. They make an excellent light for filming underwater and have no "hot spots" in the beam. Having one on each side cancels the harsh shadows typical in single-light setups. The GoPro Session loves the broad, rich light beams, even in low visibility situations. I don't know of anyone else who has made such a setup. It works great! Some of our older videos are shot using the "UNICORN" setup, which works almost as well and is a lot less expensive... But the height of the unit takes some getting used to and is annoying to dive with.
Thanks for asking! That's the new BARE Sentry. BARE developed the suit based on our specifications, just for us. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sAkiNJ6Zheg.html
you mention the camera works which I could not look up or fully understand at 18:50 into the video about the lights and vid. ascpects can you give me a link?
Yes absolutely! I had just retired the "UNICORN" light/camera/mask setup and shot this video using the "SOUTHERN CROSS" design. A comparison between the two designs can be seen here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2QuHQRnQ_QI.html "Shawnee" is a friend from Australia who came up with the name "SOUTHERN CROSS" to describe the new light/camera/mask.
Generally bottom cleaning is priced on a case-by-case basis, and it varies widely depending on bottom paint condition, geographic area, and fouling level. Most of the boats we do aren't regularly cleaned, so they're more of a "bid" type job based on the above criteria. Those residential vessels that we clean on a regular basis (we also do a lot of commercial and government contracts) generally get charged $4 per linear foot. 50' boat = $200 for cleaning every 4 week or so.
Adrian Mircea we call those "thru-hulls," and they're used for engine cooling, raw water intake (to flush the toilets, etc), air conditioner cooling, etc. Throughout the boat there are several thru-hulls. The big one with the slots is for cooling the main engines.
There is no "average 43 foot boat." They all differ in paint condition, water temperature, complexity of the hull, tidal flows, and growth patterns. Most of my regularly maintained boats (once every 2-6 weeks) pay around $5/ft... But many are $2/ft and many others are $12/ft. It all depends. This client paid about $300 to have his hull and running gear cleaned.
Why is so much paint coming of of the boat? Why aren‘t you cleaning the boat outside if the water? Then no paint would get into the water. Can‘t imagine that paint is good for wildlife, plants etc.
The paint is ablative paint. It is designed to slough and leech like that. That's how it keeps growth off of the hull. It is made of inert chemicals and is not harmful to the environment. In the video I show how my methods slough as little paint as possible - in order to maximize paint lifespan for the client.
The work is satisfying but the music is like pulling teeth without anesthetic! Cut the sound and you can't hear what the guy says. What the hell, cut the sound anyways.
