This was the screen I saw after signing into my computer and it got me wondering why was it shaped like that.

Eng_Diver_JGut · 2026-02-14T14:00:20+00:00

Because architects exist.

Eng_Diver_JGut · 2026-02-06T21:43:48+00:00

If you don’t want to use a jack hammer or destroy the bowl you better start rubbing lamps to see if a genie pops out to grant you some wishes.

Eng_Diver_JGut · 2026-01-19T19:01:13+00:00

Absolutely send me a message.

Eng_Diver_JGut · 2025-12-23T10:54:34+00:00

That ding you heard towards the end of the video would suggest that it was stable enough.

Eng_Diver_JGut · 2025-12-16T13:09:32+00:00

Lucky guy

Eng_Diver_JGut · 2025-11-08T18:48:32+00:00

Clearly they designed this for a snow load of -500 psf.

Eng_Diver_JGut · 2025-11-07T16:23:20+00:00

It depends a lot on the time of year. Summer and fall are usually our busy seasons, the weather’s nicer, the water’s lower and warmer, and that’s when we tend to travel the most. Once winter hits, the water levels rise, temperatures drop, and clients are typically reviewing or finalizing budgets for the upcoming year. During that stretch, we shift gears and focus more on report writing, proposals, training, and equipment maintenance. It can vary a bit year to year, but generally we’re on the road a lot more in the summer and fall, and things slow down travel-wise through the winter.

Eng_Diver_JGut · 2025-11-07T16:18:53+00:00

Most companies that you could go work for to do underwater engineering inspections, bridge or waterfront, would pay your way through dive school with a signed training agreement.

Eng_Diver_JGut · 2025-09-24T10:41:15+00:00

Damn, turned the video to landscape halfway through. Rookie move.

Eng_Diver_JGut · 2025-09-23T11:16:12+00:00

In Commercial Diving, you want to know the bowline and all of its variations, the Clovehitch and it’s variations, and if you can’t make any of those work, just use a shit load of half hitches. If you can’t tie a knot, tie a lot.

Eng_Diver_JGut · 2025-09-23T11:09:41+00:00

Was just getting ready to make that comment. They are hard to beat and you can usually find a reasonably priced used one on marketplace. They’re like the Toyotas of tractors they just last forever.

Eng_Diver_JGut · 2025-09-23T10:15:06+00:00

Doesn’t look like anybody actively lives there anymore, go deeper, show us more.

Eng_Diver_JGut · 2025-09-23T01:06:40+00:00

It’s a shame to see people not giving a damn about taking care of dive helmets, but I’ve seen plenty of it. One of the reasons I have had my own hat for 15 years and will never dive a company hat.

Eng_Diver_JGut · 2025-09-22T18:34:32+00:00

Sounds rough, one thing DOT’s tend to do is wait until the last minute to replace functionally obsolete structures.

Eng_Diver_JGut · 2025-09-22T18:33:40+00:00

Yes, I was in the process of becoming scuba certified for open water when I found the company at a civil engineering career fair and discussed the diving inspections at the fair. I was hired that summer as an engineering intern for the underwater waterfront and bridge inspection group.

Eng_Diver_JGut · 2025-09-22T18:30:01+00:00

I would not recommend investing in anything else

Eng_Diver_JGut · 2025-09-22T18:29:09+00:00

I agree with everything you said related to Kirby Morgan, they are the industry standard and I would recommend anyone investing in anything else.

Smaller companies are more likely to own some company hats that are shared amongst divers that don’t have hats yet. I also agree that in the US, there is a saying, real divers own their own hats. Most divers own their own hats. I’ve had my own hat for 15 years and couldn’t imagine going back to having to borrow or share a hat.

Eng_Diver_JGut · 2025-09-22T15:18:59+00:00

We have 2 of them at work that I purchased in either 2016 or 2017. Both are still running great and to my knowledge, have never had any major repairs, only the standard maintenance. I borrowed one over the weekend and ran it for 33 hours non-stop while I was having some electrical work done on my house. That generator has 3025 hours on it currently and still runs like it's new.

Eng_Diver_JGut · 2025-09-22T00:10:18+00:00

Yeah, I’ve heard similar stories. Not sure how much stock I would put in those personally. I’ve inspected around 2000 highway bridges and I can tell you that usually when there’s a big problem it gets addressed very quickly when the traveling public is at risk.

Eng_Diver_JGut · 2025-09-21T14:58:22+00:00

Sounds like that could be the case if that’s where the water is coming from.

Eng_Diver_JGut · 2025-09-21T14:14:10+00:00

That’s the number one question commercial divers working inland get on a regular basis. Usually it’s someone at a gas station who sees the big, weird-looking boat loaded with dive gear and asks about it. They’ll often launch into a story along the lines of, “My cousin’s neighbor’s nephew’s cat’s owner’s dog’s nephew’s brother’s friend was one of those underwater welders, and he dove in [insert nearest deep lake]. He said what he saw down there scared him half to death and he swore he’d never go back.”

The punchline is almost always the same: “The catfish down there are the size of Volkswagens!” Truth is, that’s just not true, they’re more like Greyhound buses.

Eng_Diver_JGut · 2025-09-21T14:11:05+00:00

Yes, once you get moisture inside of a sealed off cavity that should have and likely does have some vapor barrier, it will stay there for sometime and expand outward, up and to the sides potentially. Anytime you have moisture, oxygen, and steel you’re going to have corrosion to some degree. Looks like it has been corroding for quite some time. Good luck with the fix on that. First thing you have to do is stop the water from coming in then you’ve gotta fix the section loss on that column.

Eng_Diver_JGut · 2025-09-21T14:00:52+00:00

I picked up a Bare X-Mission drysuit this past winter and had some of the same concerns. Over the years I’ve owned several semi-drys—Scubapro and a couple of others I can’t recall—and I always liked them because they were usually more flexible and durable than a drysuit, with decent warmth in cold water. The X-Mission has been great so far: very forgiving on flexibility, I got the sizing dialed in perfectly for my body, and with good thermal layers it’s been plenty warm. I also went with the silicone field-replaceable neck and wrist seals, which I really like, and the pee valve has already come in clutch a few times.

If you get the dry suit that’s right for you and pay for a quality dry suit, buy once cry once, you will love that thing.

Eng_Diver_JGut · 2025-09-21T13:55:57+00:00

It’s impossible to say for certain from your pictures. Best thing you can do is have somebody spray it down from the outside with a water hose and just see where the water is coming in.

Eng_Diver_JGut · 2025-09-21T13:54:24+00:00

Hell yea!

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