PSD divers doing hull inspections?

[Lucy's Diver]

More so than I think any other PSD, you need a whole bunch of surface support on hull searches - line tenders and the like (which gets into your SOPs - bite reg scuba with a tether [only practical way to do a full or half necklace really]? AGA with hard line coms and scuba, surface supply AGA?), but that ship must be properly tagged out, which means a dive sup who knows something about ships and whoever pases for a ship's engineer have to physically turn off everything under that ship (not always possible, but usually a half of a large ship at a time can be tagged out) and place tags or locks (or people) on whatever switch or lever turns that stuff back on.
Lots of things under big ships can kill divers.
That thick red marine paint on most navy and commercial ships is also toxic. It sloughs right off when touched.

 

[BladesRobinson]

This is a timely article, printed last week and posted at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SAR-Diver


Divers find more canisters which could contain drugs

Divers attached to the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) Coast Guard
Thursday night discovered three additional canisters attached to a
boat docked in Discovery Bay, St Ann.
This increased to 11 the number of canisters found on the vessel
since Thursday afternoon.

The canisters are believed to contain illegal drugs.

The JDF says the canisters were discovered during a routine security
search of bauxite vessels departing from Jamaica.

They were attached to the hull of the M / V DORIC GLORY.

The JDF says the 11 canisters have been handed over to the Narcotics
Police, which will have them opened and their contents tested.

This is the latest in a series of discoveries of similar canisters
containing compressed ganja.

Since early March several such canisters have been found bolted to
ships docked in the Kingston Harbour at Gordon Cay or floating in the
sea nearby.

On Tuesday the body of a diver was found floating in waters at the
Gordon Cay.

The police said equipment believed to be used to attach canisters to
ships was found on his body.

They suspect his death may have been linked to the discovery of some
of the canisters the previous week.