RECENT DIVING PHOTOGRAPHS

July -Aug 2007 Working on Technip Wellservicer, Part of Tampen Link Hot-Tap project. Hot tapping is the method used for branching into a live oil or gas pipeline. This one cost the Client some £20M+

Ready for work

Going to work at 145M

Getting ready to do a £20M weld in a dry habitat at 145M

Welding habitat being launched

The welding habitat being launched and ready to lower to the seabed. 70 tons of steel and hydraulic rams to manouvre and align the pipes to be welded on the ocean floor. This becomes the diver welders dry subsea home for 8 hrs at a time.

My Bell partner Zvi Rendler

Kirby Morgan super light diving helmet with gas reclaim and rebreather bailout interface.

Inside the diving bell, Gas panel

My Bunk

Jim Holborn and Zvi Rendler

Me with that just woke up look.

In the Chambers of the National Hyperbaric centre, during the welder qualification tests for tampen link hot tap.

Welding partner Johan Andersen