I can't either. I worked around this kind of shit. Every morning when you left the house, you never knew if you were coming back. Some of these retired military guys act like hero's but they hung around and played grab-ass while the real hero's were airborne.
Knowing death is coming is my greatest fear. Saw it first in a movie in high school about the Russian Revolution. A guard raises his rifle as he is about to be overwhelmed and murdered. The look of terror is why I won't watch horror. Reality is horror enough sometimes.
I couldn't watch it either. I worked on a small hydroelectric dam in 1980 which was going through a maintenance project to replace the "grid", across the front of the dam. The grid was a series of flat steel bars welded together on edge in such a way that they resembled the fins of a radiator. Installed long ways down the front face of the dam, they prevented underwater debris from getting sucked through the penstock or wedged in the turbine.
At 24, I was the youngest guy and newest employee on the entire jobsite, working for the power company, not the contractor, and my duties included operating the 40-foot steel barge which served as the scuba diver's platform.
One day the diver decided to go back down to check on something and refused my offer of a tagline, a fateful decision. It was lunchtime, most of the guys had already gone to an off-site restaurant. When they returned - maybe 30 minutes after the diver went down, one guy glanced over the railing to the downriver side of the dam and noticed what appeared to be a piece the blue neoprene wetsuit the diver was wearing. It was.
Two more divers were brought in immediately to go down and try to recover him. One of them got trapped in the pressure differential mentioned in the video above and had to be rescued. He hung up his diving career that day.
I was expecting a bunch of selfies. One more step back. Can you lean out a little farther. That wave wont take you out to sea. These horses wont run over me.
I cannot watch this.
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't show the actual deaths. It just gives the circumstances surrounding them.
DeleteI can't either. I worked around this kind of shit. Every morning when you left the house, you never knew if you were coming back. Some of these retired military guys act like hero's but they hung around and played grab-ass while the real hero's were airborne.
DeleteKnowing death is coming is my greatest fear. Saw it first in a movie in high school about the Russian Revolution. A guard raises his rifle as he is about to be overwhelmed and murdered. The look of terror is why I won't watch horror. Reality is horror enough sometimes.
DeleteI couldn't watch it either. I worked on a small hydroelectric dam in 1980 which was going through a maintenance project to replace the "grid", across the front of the dam. The grid was a series of flat steel bars welded together on edge in such a way that they resembled the fins of a radiator. Installed long ways down the front face of the dam, they prevented underwater debris from getting sucked through the penstock or wedged in the turbine.
DeleteAt 24, I was the youngest guy and newest employee on the entire jobsite, working for the power company, not the contractor, and my duties included operating the 40-foot steel barge which served as the scuba diver's platform.
One day the diver decided to go back down to check on something and refused my offer of a tagline, a fateful decision. It was lunchtime, most of the guys had already gone to an off-site restaurant. When they returned - maybe 30 minutes after the diver went down, one guy glanced over the railing to the downriver side of the dam and noticed what appeared to be a piece the blue neoprene wetsuit the diver was wearing. It was.
Two more divers were brought in immediately to go down and try to recover him. One of them got trapped in the pressure differential mentioned in the video above and had to be rescued. He hung up his diving career that day.
That's why I couldn't watch the video.
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ReplyDeleteWhirlpool man and the grizzly guy are Darwin at work. No changes will be made toward their genetics.
ReplyDeleteI was expecting a bunch of selfies. One more step back. Can you lean out a little farther. That wave wont take you out to sea. These horses wont run over me.
ReplyDeleteDeath to a Harley Davidson... bike gets destroyed over company going woke
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOmAJ18lpmU
I was a trucker for over 25 years, and I've seen enough dead people.
ReplyDeleteDANG! I guess I was lucky. Drove for 20 years and don't recall coming up on a fatal.
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