Just logged my 100th hour in zero visibility harbor water

That's a full week of bottom time in blackout conditions, mostly doing salvage work in the Port of Mobile. I never thought I'd hit that mark, but the last job was pulling up old dock pilings for three days straight. It matters because I used to get real jumpy when the silt clouded up, but now I feel like I can work by touch alone. My tender said my air use has gotten way more even too. Has anyone else noticed a big shift in their comfort level after hitting a specific hour count in bad vis?

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stella_roberts14d ago

You sure you mean a full week? A hundred hours is more like four days of bottom time. That's still a huge amount of work in zero vis. The comfort shift is real though, once you stop fighting the dark.

drew80513d ago

Stella_Roberts is right about the math, a hundred hours is four days not a week. But the point on comfort is spot on. For me it was around the 80 hour mark in the Charleston mud where I stopped needing to check my gauges every minute. My hands just learned the work.