Got called out on my umbilical handling last month in Port Arthur

My dive partner, Mike, watched me do a surface check and said 'You're letting that umbilical just drag across the deck like a dead snake, you're gonna get a kink.' He was right, I was lazy about it. Now I do a full 360 walk around the umbilical on deck before I go in, checking every inch. How do you guys keep your umbilical managed on a cramped barge deck?

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karenm4918d ago

Port Arthur? That water is so full of silt you can't see your hand in front of your face. Letting anything drag there is asking for trouble. I use a simple figure-eight coil on the deck, keeps it tidy even when the barge is rocking.

ross.river18d ago

Figure eights saved my gear in Mobile Bay too.

the_fiona7d ago

Wait, you can't even see your hand down there? That's wild. I knew it was bad but not that bad. Makes me think of that time a buddy dropped a wrench overboard in Galveston... gone forever in that brown soup. You're right, dragging anything in that muck is just throwing money away.