Underwater pipe and pile cutter - GIF

[MeJasonT]

Back on topic
I started my offshore career on this project

https://www.offshore-mag.com/subsea/...ine-connectors

when i find some images i will add them, a really impressive piece of kit.

A guy on our team was into electronics and building all sorts of gadgets, I cant remember the guys name for the life of me.
He was currently working on fitting hand controls to his cars steering wheel - A very influential person in what was to be my future development (Tony ?)

The engineer in charge of the DMaC was Duggie Duncan
I upset him by being young and stupid and pointing out that his baby was not built to spec. They had fitted rams and the grease nipples on the knuckles were underneath, the knuckle has housed back in a section of angle - not a cat in hell's chance of greasing the knuckles. That started my perfectionist attitude towards other engineering blunders. A skill STEM will never teach, in order to be a damn good engineer you need years of exposure to all its disciplines.

I did manage to pull up Fugro management once. In the project documentation of a Fugro project there was around 20 big A4 folders covering all aspects of the subsea project we were about to commence. There was a pre project meeting and they went through the files and all aspects of what we were going to do. The critical factor was the weather/working limits. Some squeeky gobby little git couldnt hold it in any more and had to point out that the whole section on weather limits was missing from the files. Hey i dont need a degree to be this anal. Incidently this is when i realised the difference between a clever degree and one handed out on a toffee paper.