If you don't laugh out loud after you read this you are in a coma! This
is even funnier when you realize it's real! Next time you have a bad
day at work, think of this guy.
Rob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana. He
performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs. Below is an
E-mail he sent to his sister. She then sent it to a radio station in
Ft.Wayne, Indiana, who was sponsoring a worst job experience contest.
Needless to say, she won.
Hi Cheryl,
Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother. Last week I had a
bad day at the office. I know you've been feeling down lately at work,
so I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you realize it's
not so bad after all. Before I can tell you what happened to me, I
first must bore you with a few technicalities of my job.
As you know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to
the office. It's a wetsuit. This time of year the water is quite cool.
So what we do to keep warm is this: We have a diesel-powered industrial
water heater. This $20,000 piece of equipment sucks the water out of
the sea, heats it to a delightful temperature, then pumps it down to
the diver through a garden hose which is taped to the air hose. Now
this sounds like a darn good plan, and I've used it several times with
no complaints.
What I do, when I get to the bottom and start working, is take the hose
and stuff it down the back of my wetsuit. This floods my whole suit
with warm water. It's like working in a Jacuzzi.
Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my bum started to
itch.
So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse. Within a
few seconds my bum started to burn! I pulled the hose out from my back,
but the damage was done. In agony
I realized what had happened. The hot water machine had sucked up a
jellyfish and pumped it into my suit.
Now, since I don't have any hair on my back, the jellyfish couldn't
stick to it. However, the crack of my bum was not as fortunate. When I
scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the
jellyfish into the crack of my bum. I informed the dive supervisor of
my dilemma over the communicator. His instructions were unclear due to
the fact that he, along with five other divers, were all laughing
hysterically. Needless to say I aborted the dive.
I was instructed to make three agonizing in-water decompression stops
totalling thirty-five minutes before I could reach the surface to begin
my chamber dry decompression. When I arrived at the surface, I was
wearing nothing but my brass helmet. As I climbed out of the water, the
medic, with tears of laughter running down his face, handed me a tube
of cream and told me to rub it on my bum as soon as I got in the
chamber. The cream put the fire out, but I couldn't poo for two days
because my bum was swollen shut.
So, next time you're having a bad day at work, think about how much
worse it would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your arse. Now
repeat to yourself, I love my job, I love my job, I love my job." Now
whenever you have a bad day, ask yourself, is this a jellyfish Bad day?
May you NEVER have a jellyfish bad day!!!!!
Rob x
Gordon Henderson - 14 Aug 2006 20:32 GMT
>If you don't laugh out loud after you read this you are in a coma! This
>is even funnier when you realize it's real! Next time you have a bad
>day at work, think of this guy.
It may or may not be real...
http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/diver.htm
Gordon
Ken - 14 Aug 2006 21:35 GMT
>>If you don't laugh out loud after you read this you are in a coma! This
>>is even funnier when you realize it's real! Next time you have a bad
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>
> http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/diver.htm
Can't vouch for truth of the matter or not, BUT . . .
All or at least most marine toxins are deactivated by being heated to
relatively modest temps, around top 40s - early 50s ºC.
If this hot water hose is to provide comfortably warm water via a hose to a
diver over a considerable length of hose, it follows that the temp of the
water in the hose nearest the surface must be considerably warmer than the
diver eventually experiences. After all, the diver must be diving in
relatively cold water in order to experience the benefit of the hosed water
and given the length and surface area of the hose, the water must be heated
considerably initially given the heat losses it must inevitably experience.
Hot enough to deactivate the toxins? Can't be sure, but . . . probably?
Good story though!
Ken
Gordon Henderson - 14 Aug 2006 23:00 GMT
>>>If you don't laugh out loud after you read this you are in a coma! This
>>>is even funnier when you realize it's real! Next time you have a bad
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>considerably initially given the heat losses it must inevitably experience.
>Hot enough to deactivate the toxins? Can't be sure, but . . . probably?
Intersting - I've heard/read this story many times over the years,
but this is an intersting slant on it... I did a hot-water suit dive
many years ago at Fort Bovi.. So I think I had on a wetsuit under it
all with the over suit which had the hoses in it, it was good fun!
But one thing they did tell me was that on deep dives, the water going
into the top is almost steam... You have a bypass valve avalable to you
where the water goes into the suit plumbing, so just flip the valve and
water stops flowing into the suit (and directly into the sea) I think
there is a feedback thermocouple to the control unit on the surface
(ship/rig, etc.) but can't quite remember.
So that would help prove that this is more of an urban myth than
for real...
>Good story though!
Always good for a laugh... Not quite as good as the video of a crab
being sucked into a pipe at deth though...
Gordon
Ken - 15 Aug 2006 23:01 GMT
>>>>If you don't laugh out loud after you read this you are in a coma! This
>>>>is even funnier when you realize it's real! Next time you have a bad
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> Always good for a laugh... Not quite as good as the video of a crab
> being sucked into a pipe at deth though...
YES!!! Gruesome, but nonetheless provoked a yucky smile!
K
El Mecky - 22 Aug 2006 10:21 GMT
IS THERE A LINK TO THE CRAB-FILE? SRRY FOR THE CAPS, BUT TYPING WITH ONE
hand As my baby gIRL HOLDS DOWN THE SHIFT_KEY
>>>>>If you don't laugh out loud after you read this you are in a coma! This
>>>>>is even funnier when you realize it's real! Next time you have a bad
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>
> K
psmvsl@yahoo.co.uk - 23 Aug 2006 20:05 GMT
>IS THERE A LINK TO THE CRAB-FILE? SRRY FOR THE CAPS, BUT TYPING WITH ONE
>hand As my baby gIRL HOLDS DOWN THE SHIFT_KEY
http://burningsmell.org/crab/crabvspipe1.mpg