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Lost a valve adjustment tool 60 feet down in Lake Michigan
I was working a salvage job off the coast of Milwaukee last month, swapping out an old intake valve on a water intake pipe. About 20 minutes into the job, my torque wrench slipped out of my hand and I watched it sink into the silt. Visibility was maybe 2 feet, so I spent the next hour feeling around blind in that freezing water. Had to call it quits and surface without finishing because I couldn't lock the valve down properly. The crew chief chewed me out for not having a lanyard on the tool, cost us an extra day and $400 to bring in a backup diver. Anyone else had a tool go missing in zero vis and just had to eat the cost?
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tyler82229d ago
Must be nice having clear water and working conditions, some of us have to evolve into mud eels to find our tools. Hope that magnet didn't attract any angry catfish with a grudge.
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