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Well done all you divers when I left the army I went off shore  southern sector we had divers on our rig most were ex Marines or Paras.

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Well done all you divers when I left the army I went off shore  southern sector we had divers on our rig most were ex Marines or Paras.

I knew a few who went diving on the rigs and most of them ended up with really bad arthritis in their knees elbows and most other joints through the constant pressure of saturation diving for 10 yrs or more. They all seemed to buy a Rolex with their first pay packet and swore they'd leave after 5 yrs a millionaire, but most (or their wimmin) spent it faster than they earned it and had to stick it out till they were binned through injury/sickness.

Anyone see the documentary about the lad that was left lying on the bottom without air for hours after the support ship was blown off it's position while he was out of the sat chamber? Lucky man to survive, and without brain injury as well, they reckon he went into 'dolphin' mode or mammalian dive reflex as it's known, shutting down everything that needs oxygen except the brain, something like Dave on a daily basis!!

Yes Pat met a supervisor who said his men was his priority and he had been let down as a young lad suffered the bends due to some one not paying attention. I was coming off shift on Uniform One the divers would be washing their wet suits in the showers, January in the Nth sea f*** cold in thermals

Interesting stuff that Don and a lot o stuff to learn, don,t think mi brain is big enuff ta tek all that in apart from using the lump ammer n chisel! As a sprog high board divin wuz mi thing, double somersault n pike mi speciality n did oreight on the spring boord but thi clobber wuz budgie snugglaz! Passed mi intensive training in muff divin az well, taught by DS Heather in the local woods, only prob wuz avin ta cope wi a gob full o wetch springs! 😝 

Yeovil swimming pool late 60's and a young lad known as 'Eggy' for some reason, blind as a bat, climbed the ladder to the 10m platform, looked down at the water, decided he was at the wrong end and despite our shouts dived gracefully off the back onto the concrete! Laugh? I almost shat! He broke about everything you can break and never walked again, oh the joys of youth!

Bollocks to that I hate cold water, but each to his own.

Don we were on guard one night and someone brought up the subject of muff diving, somebody asked Paddy D, if he had ever had a muff dive, Paddy replied I can't Feken swim! 🤣 

1960 red hot summer went ta Millhouses park, big f..k off concrete swimmin pool, deep as fukk n filled wi river watter frpm the River Sheaf, tha jumped out faster than tha jumped in!

six weeks holiday, joint was rammed wi skoyle kids and at one end big fukk off high boord and at the end o the day one young lad dint return oo-am. returned the next day, joint wuz shut n sheeted off while plod wo searchin fer im in small paddle boo-ats, water wuz green slime on the surface, cowd az fukk, no chance o seein owt below the surface, so divers called in who eventually gorrim, obviousy fried bread. Turned out the kid wuz a train spotter who kunt swim but ad climbed onto the high boord to clock the LMS Sheffield ta London line lookin at the passin choo choos n somebody ad pushed im in,poor kid. After that, baths wo shut n replaced by a moor friendly Lido wi clear heated watter, very child friendly. Ironically in the 80s under the Milk Snatchers regime when she named the city of Sheffield run by Blind Jack Blunkett, "The Communist Centree Of South Yorkshire", all ackers wo pulled from the Council, Lido shut n turned into a council tip, just like the rest o the country a reckon!

Pity she didn't fall into the water Dave !

Worra complete twat she was Bob! 🤨 

I could see what she was like when she was first voted in as Prime Minister, certainly didn't fool me and the only reason she was bubbling at the end when ousted was because she no longer had control!

I think by then she didn't have control of her bodily functions let alone the country! The brain had started to rot!

She thought she wuz the Empress of the fukkin World!

It's true that old saying, the bigger they are the harder they fall!

Sed Ali to George Foreman!