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Soparents
Citizen
Username: Soparents
Post Number: 855
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 7, 2006 - 6:19 pm: | 
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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, which 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 water out
of the sea. It heats it to a delightful temperature. It then pumps it
down to the diver through a 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
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 into 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 a-hole 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".
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Duncan
Supporter
Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 6482
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 7, 2006 - 6:46 pm: |
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Hate to take the wind out of your sails but...
Always check Snopes.com first
actually started circulating back in 1998 |
Soparents
Citizen
Username: Soparents
Post Number: 857
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 7, 2006 - 6:50 pm: |
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Oh heck, well it had me rolling in the aisles!!!!!
I always check snopes for the viruses etc, but this just sounded so unbelievable it had to be true. Not of course that I would wish anyone an attack of a jellyfish on the nether regions..
Well, not unless it gave me a laugh!!!
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Case
Citizen
Username: Case
Post Number: 1754
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, June 8, 2006 - 9:02 am: |
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Yeah... sat divers don't wear wet suits, they wear dry suits. It IS a cute story, though.
For those of you who like scuba diving and urban legends, here's a great site:
http://www.firediving.com/
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Bajou
Citizen
Username: Bajou
Post Number: 555
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, June 8, 2006 - 4:18 pm: |
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Hey Case:
Are you a diver? I have epilepsy and have been told a couple times now that I am absolutely not allowed to dive. Do you know if that is true? |
catmanjac
Citizen
Username: Catmanjac
Post Number: 269
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, June 10, 2006 - 4:46 pm: |
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Soparents
Citizen
Username: Soparents
Post Number: 923
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, June 10, 2006 - 5:25 pm: |
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Wow, I hope she has strong upper arms and no sense of smell!!!!
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