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These tragic deaths IMO, goes to show you why you don't want engineers making practical field decisions where they don't have the experience (and I am also a civil engineer with 26 years experience working with the NH DOT). I could not imagine overruling someone out in the field who has the...

Stig, you are so right, and I kind of feel like a kindred spirit to the commercial divers. We both have to answer to the powers above us, who haven't been out there in the field (or under the seas) doing the actual work...very sad.

The Last Dive. Here's a story about a fatal saturation dive. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iV4iBjTpemU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> This was back in the "cowboy days" of commercial North Sea diving, when it was not as safe as it is today.

That would be called Saturation Diving, and IMO, would be a very lonely way to work. No going home and living in the chamber all the time. Those quys are like astronauts, only we call them aquanauts.

That's pretty cool Butch. Working as a dive tender is an extremely important job on a diving crew, as a diver's life can at times be in their hands. Kind of like the way that as climbers, we rely on our ground crew to assist in our safety.

Yeah, I can weld, but not underwater welding. That's where the professional commercial training would be required and I never pursued that trade.

I only do this kind of work occasionally, as I'm plenty busy with tree work and other activities.

I've been a diver now for 32 years. Not hardhat commercial diving, but SCUBA. I am not a pleasure diver, as I prefer the work aspect of diving, rather than swimming around doing nothing but looking at fish in warm tropical water. I usually do work such as setting mooring anchors and cribbing...