Commercial Divers spin off from A&I

[Darol]

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A ScubaBoard Staff Message...

Recently a diver lost his life whilst working on a Nuclear Power Plant.

A number of members that do this kind of diving commented and we've moved some of that conversation over here.

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Not to speculate, but the number one cause of a fatality in that aspect of commercial diving is usually differential pressure.

 

[Superlyte27]

Lol, no it isn't.

 

[Superlyte27]

And I say this as a commercial diver who has dove in every single nuke plant and almost every single power plant in the USA.

 

[flyboy08]

And I say this as a commercial diver who has dove in every single nuke plant and almost every single power plant in the USA.

So what makes you an expert?

 

[tursiops]

Jimmy Hoffa

I always wondered where he went...

 

[Superlyte27]

So I'm sure you are familiar with lock out, tag out, having dove everything on planet Earth?

I'm familiar with it being a myth. I went through a 2 hour lock out tag out at the Port St. Lucie Plant on all the travelling water screens on Reactor 1. We climbed into Pump 1 on Reactor 1. 30 minutes into the dive we heard Pump 2 kick on. Thank God the coin flip was to start cleaning Pump 1 first or I'd have been ketchup.

 

[drk5036]

I'm familiar with it being a myth. I went through a 2 hour lock out tag out at the Port St. Lucie Plant on all the travelling water screens on Reactor 1. We climbed into Pump 1 on Reactor 1. 30 minutes into the dive we heard Pump 2 kick on. Thank God the coin flip was to start cleaning Pump 1 first or I'd have been ketchup.

Seriously this is my biggest fear. Number one fear is getting sucked into one of those dam glory holes. This whole thread, ugh.

 

[ofg-1]

I'm familiar with it being a myth. I went through a 2 hour lock out tag out at the Port St. Lucie Plant on all the travelling water screens on Reactor 1. We climbed into Pump 1 on Reactor 1. 30 minutes into the dive we heard Pump 2 kick on. Thank God the coin flip was to start cleaning Pump 1 first or I'd have been ketchup.

Happened to two kids at Crystal River back in the early 80's.

 

[Superlyte27]

Wait, I'm confused. I thought the whole purpose of a glory hole was to get sucked.

 

[Rollin Bonz]

Wait, I'm confused. I thought the whole purpose of a glory hole was to get sucked.

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