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What's the deal with surface supplied vs. scuba for salvage work?
Last month in Newport Harbor, I tried using surface supplied gear for a hull inspection, and it took forever to get the hose untangled from a mooring line. Last week with scuba tanks, I finished the same job in half the time but had to watch my air like a hawk. Which setup do you guys prefer when you have to work around a lot of underwater obstacles like lines and chains?
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quinnm772d ago
Did you try just yelling at the hose to untangle itself? Works about as well as anything else down there, I swear. Surface supplied is great if you wanna spend half your dive fighting with the umbilical like it's a snake that hates you. Scuba's faster for sure, but then you get that lovely anxiety spike when the gauge hits 500 psi and you're still 30 feet from the ladder. Honestly, for harbor work with all that junk in the water, I'd rather deal with air management than hose management any day. At least with tanks you can just bail out and swim if things go sideways instead of dragging 100 feet of hose through every anchor line in the marina.
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jakel252d ago
Heard a guy from one of the harbor cleanup crews say they only use surface supplied when they're welding underwater. Otherwise it's just tangle city with all the crap floating around in there.
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