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| P: 4/4/2006 1:09:54 PM | |
strmrdr Ideal Rock Total Posts: 23,296 Last Post: 10/9/2009 Member Since: 11/1/2003 |
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 radio station 103.2 on FM dial in Ft.Wayne, Indiana, who was sponsoring a worst job experience contest. Needless to say, she won. Hi Sue, 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. It heats it to a delightful temperature. It 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 butt started to itch. So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse. Within a few seconds my butt 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 butt was not as fortunate. When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the jellyfish in to the crack of my butt. 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 totaling 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 butt as soon as I got in the chamber. The cream put the fire out, but I couldn't poop for two days because my butt 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 butt. 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!!! ........... Karl has joined the diamond trade and is now posting as Karl_K |
| Posted: 4/4/2006 1:09:54 PM | |
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| P: 4/4/2006 1:21:03 PM | |
Kaleigh Ideal Rock Total Posts: 25,919 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 11/18/2004 |
OMG, OUCH!!! Is this true??
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| Posted: 4/4/2006 1:21:03 PM | |
| P: 4/4/2006 1:31:50 PM | |
FireGoddess Ideal Rock Total Posts: 12,145 Last Post: 3/23/2009 Member Since: 1/25/2005 |
Truthfulness undetermined according to snopes.com http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/diver.htm but it sure was funny!
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| Posted: 4/4/2006 1:31:50 PM | |
| P: 4/4/2006 1:37:25 PM | |
marvel Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,133 Last Post: 11/5/2008 Member Since: 7/8/2005 |
Date: 4/4/2006 1:09:54 PM Author:strmrdr Next time you have a bad day at work, think of this guy... I was actually grinding the jellyfish in to the crack of my butt. I hate when that happens! Diamonds Rock |
| Posted: 4/4/2006 1:37:25 PM | |
| P: 4/4/2006 2:26:43 PM | |
moon river Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,806 Last Post: 6/26/2006 Member Since: 1/7/2006 |
OMG!! I'll never complain about my job again. 
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| Posted: 4/4/2006 2:26:43 PM | |
| P: 4/4/2006 4:21:11 PM | |
Tacori E-ring Ideal Rock Total Posts: 16,103 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 8/15/2005 |
My sister swam into a school of jelly fish on a dive once. She said it was so painful! I should forward her this thread. It might bring up bad memories though 
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| Posted: 4/4/2006 4:21:11 PM | |
| P: 4/4/2006 4:35:06 PM | |
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marvel Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,133 Last Post: 11/5/2008 Member Since: 7/8/2005 |
Date: 4/4/2006 4:21:11 PM Author: Tacori E-ring My sister swam into a school of jelly fish on a dive once. She said it was so painful! I should forward her this thread. It might bring up bad memories though Isn't that what sisters are for? 
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| Posted: 4/4/2006 4:35:06 PM | |
| P: 4/4/2006 4:37:42 PM | |
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strmrdr Ideal Rock Total Posts: 23,296 Last Post: 10/9/2009 Member Since: 11/1/2003 |
Date: 4/4/2006 4:35:06 PM Author: marvel Date: 4/4/2006 4:21:11 PM Author: Tacori E-ring My sister swam into a school of jelly fish on a dive once. She said it was so painful! I should forward her this thread. It might bring up bad memories though Isn't that what sisters are for? LOL ........... Karl has joined the diamond trade and is now posting as Karl_K |
| Posted: 4/4/2006 4:37:42 PM | |
| P: 4/4/2006 5:40:28 PM | |
Rascal49 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 4,350 Last Post: 7/16/2007 Member Since: 7/25/2004 |
LOL, I think I read this once in an email.
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| Posted: 4/4/2006 5:40:28 PM | |
| P: 4/4/2006 6:17:26 PM | |
anchor31 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 6,365 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 10/18/2005 |
I'm an amateur diver, and I got quite a kick out of this! Ouch!!  I'm a bit skeptical at it's veracity though... People wear dry suits to do that kind of work, especially if it's at a depth where he must do three decompression stops. Still funny though! 
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| Posted: 4/4/2006 6:17:26 PM | |
| P: 4/4/2006 10:36:27 PM | |
perry Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,782 Last Post: 11/16/2009 Member Since: 9/19/2004 |
I have to agree with the comments that it does not add up. The diving suits with the brass helmets are dry suits, and people get to wear lots of warm clothing in them. You don't pump warm water into a wet suit - and even if you did - it would not be cirulating all over the body such that you felt you were in a jacuzzi - your arms and legs would be getting cold. I am aware of some recirculating warm (and cool) torso vest that were tried but have fallen out of favor. However, even with them the water does not enter the wet suit - just circulates through the vest. I don't see how a jellyfish would get past the screans that protect the pump. Finally, when you got to go you got to go... It'd find a way (not saying that it might not be painfull). I wouldn't even rate it good enough to be an urban legend. Perry
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| Posted: 4/4/2006 10:36:27 PM | |
| P: 4/10/2006 10:18:20 AM | |
Basset Hound Cut Rock Total Posts: 304 Last Post: 3/27/2007 Member Since: 1/29/2004 |
I had acouple of friends back in the 60's who decided to try out the sexual revolution in a field of alphalpha that turned out to be poison ivy. Talk about a entire body being covered with a rash to die for. They bathed is calimine lotion for the next 2 weeks. |
| Posted: 4/10/2006 10:18:20 AM | |
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