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This is the script for Episode Five of Lords of the Ocean is a reality TV show that follows Matt and Robin, two brothers who’ve inherited Dominion Diving, a family salvage, diving and marine service business.
The Lohnes brothers have also maintained a family legacy; their father’s love of uncertainty, the unknown, the undiscovered, and the unworkable.
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00:01:02:00 | º MUSIC º |
00:01:03:11 | NARRATOR: In the middle of Dominion’s |
00:01:04:18 | dirty and dangerous dig, |
00:01:07:01 | a block of concrete weighing as much as three elephants, |
00:01:09:21 | just disappears. |
00:01:13:07 | OLLIE: He’s basically just having a lot of rock |
00:01:14:18 | fall down back on him when he’s working. |
00:01:19:05 | NARRATOR: A pricey piece of gear |
00:01:20:15 | gets absolutely thrashed on the jobsite. |
00:01:23:10 | MATT: Divers break everything. |
00:01:25:16 | CHRISTIAN: This is horrible. |
00:01:27:15 | NARRATOR: Dominion’s scraping, sucking and pumping |
00:01:30:14 | on some of the filthiest jobs in the harbour. |
00:01:33:07 | BILLY: Another shitty day. |
00:01:34:21 | NARRATOR: For 50 years, |
00:01:36:10 | this family’s built a business |
00:01:38:05 | where nobody else dares. |
00:01:40:00 | Recovering, repairing, |
00:01:42:09 | resurrecting anything |
00:01:44:07 | in the world’s most dangerous waters. |
00:01:46:15 | This is their world. |
00:01:49:11 | Saltwater in their blood |
00:01:51:09 | come hell and high water. |
00:01:53:10 | MATT: It’s go time. |
00:01:54:11 | Do or die. |
00:01:55:09 | º THEME SONG º |
00:02:26:12 | NARRATOR: Six a.m. and the workday’s already begun |
00:02:28:20 | on Halifax Harbour. |
00:02:31:21 | Dominion’s dive crew is gearing up. |
00:02:35:10 | There’s just enough time to get caffeinated |
00:02:37:21 | before a tricky job with Dave at the helm. |
00:02:44:10 | DAVE: So now we’re loading on the Nitrox quad. |
00:02:48:05 | For this job we need special air. |
00:02:53:14 | NARRATOR: Today’s mission is to help update |
00:02:55:09 | the Port of Halifax’s |
00:02:56:20 | south end container terminal. |
00:02:59:18 | Halifax is Eastern Canada’s largest terminal. |
00:03:02:13 | Twelve thousand people work here, |
00:03:05:00 | and it pumps $500 million into the local economy. |
00:03:11:10 | But they could lose all of that |
00:03:13:17 | if they don’t keep up with the global industry |
00:03:16:05 | where bigger is better. |
00:03:18:12 | Sixty percent of the world’s cargo moves by container. |
00:03:22:19 | It’s a $12 trillion industry. |
00:03:25:24 | To cut costs and stay afloat, |
00:03:27:22 | shipping companies keep making bigger boats. |
00:03:31:04 | The largest ships |
00:03:32:18 | are now the length of four football fields. |
00:03:35:09 | MATT: These ships are gigantic. |
00:03:37:18 | They’re more efficient, faster. |
00:03:40:09 | These vessels can move small cities in one run |
00:03:43:24 | and they’re now going to be coming to Halifax. |
00:03:45:24 | So we’re gonna position ourselves |
00:03:47:14 | in such a way, |
00:03:49:01 | we’re able to support them for a long time. |
00:03:51:10 | NARRATOR: Port authorities worldwide |
00:03:53:12 | are racing to keep up and the Port of Halifax |
00:03:56:10 | is scrambling to expand their container piers |
00:03:59:09 | before the behemoth boats arrive. |
00:04:05:00 | DAVE: Halifax Traffic, Dominion Bearcat, |
00:04:06:15 | we are now departing Dartmouth Cove for Pier 4-2. |
00:04:11:15 | NARRATOR: Pier 42, |
00:04:13:03 | Halifax’s south end container terminal, |
00:04:15:24 | currently undergoing a two year, $35 million |
00:04:19:17 | expansion to accommodate these new |
00:04:21:15 | Ultra Class container ships. |
00:04:25:03 | Dominion Diving has a three day contract |
00:04:28:01 | to do some nitty gritty, down and dirty work, |
00:04:31:13 | digging the underwater footings on this project. |
00:04:34:15 | DAVE: We’ve got a full crew of divers here. |
00:04:37:00 | We’ve got some Nitrox onboard. |
00:04:39:16 | NARRATOR: Dave ties up to the existing dock |
00:04:42:12 | to wait for the construction barge |
00:04:44:04 | that’ll be the surface platform for his diving work. |
00:04:47:20 | DAVE: This is the guys. |
00:04:49:11 | Looks like they still got the keys still onboard. |
00:04:53:04 | NARRATOR: Once the barge is manoeuvered into position |
00:04:55:07 | and anchored, |
00:04:56:07 | Dave ties up to it. |
00:04:59:00 | Now, they can finally get started. |
00:05:03:14 | Five pre-cast concrete caissons |
00:05:06:01 | have been placed at the end of the existing Pier 42. |
00:05:11:18 | Caissons are big concrete boxes |
00:05:13:21 | that are the skeletons for the new, larger piers. |
00:05:17:22 | They were built across the harbour |
00:05:19:15 | and floated to their new home |
00:05:21:18 | by partially flooding them so they wouldn’t tip over. |
00:05:25:16 | The seabed was levelled. |
00:05:27:06 | Once they were in place they were flooded, |
00:05:30:04 | so when the tide went out, |
00:05:31:15 | the caissons settled on the bottom. |
00:05:36:14 | Then the caissons were filled with gravel. |
00:05:42:04 | OLLIE: They’re tied. DAVE: Wicked. |
00:05:43:11 | NARRATOR: Now, Dominion’s been hired to help |
00:05:45:10 | anchor all the caissons together. |
00:05:48:09 | OLLIE: So, those are basically the slabs |
00:05:50:09 | they’re putting into place. |
00:05:52:00 | NARRATOR: Dominion’s job is to dig the footings |
00:05:54:08 | for these mammoth 20-tonne slabs of concrete |
00:05:57:24 | called keys, |
00:05:59:18 | and help put them in place underwater. |
00:06:02:14 | The caissons are 18 metres deep, |
00:06:04:20 | so two nine metre slabs, |
00:06:06:18 | one on top of each other, |
00:06:08:10 | need to be placed in the narrow gap between caissons. |
00:06:11:22 | It’s such a narrow workspace, |
00:06:13:22 | they can’t get any machinery down there. |
00:06:17:05 | All the work has to be done by hand. |
00:06:20:09 | It’s like playing Tetris |
00:06:22:07 | with pieces that weigh as much as three elephants. |
00:06:25:20 | Once the three gaps are filled, |
00:06:28:02 | the caissons will be locked together into a uniform pier. |
00:06:33:05 | The bottom slab extends into a narrow block |
00:06:36:21 | that must be buried to the seabed to anchor it. |
00:06:40:14 | DAVE: Do you want to go in first? |
00:06:42:19 | NARRATOR: The first diver in the water will be Guillaume. |
00:06:46:06 | Dominion’s divers are serving as underwater ditch diggers, |
00:06:50:16 | diving down 18 metres |
00:06:52:16 | and digging out a hole to put the end of the key in. |
00:06:57:05 | They’ve gotta dig three holes for footings |
00:07:00:01 | and place three sets of keys in, |
00:07:02:18 | and they’ve got three days to do it. |
00:07:05:11 | DAVE: Listen, this is the key |
00:07:06:18 | that we’re trying to put in here, |
00:07:07:20 | this is the bottom end of it. |
00:07:09:06 | NARRATOR: Dave’s got some special instructions |
00:07:10:21 | for Guillaume. |
00:07:12:07 | DAVE: So, it’s gotta go down this far… |
00:07:14:03 | GUILLAUME: Yeah. |
00:07:15:07 | DAVE: …but it’s got to go in this far. |
00:07:17:20 | GUILLAUME: Oh, okay. |
00:07:18:20 | DAVE: I brought this too.., |
00:07:20:18 | NARRATOR: Dave has one other low-tech tool |
00:07:22:17 | for the diver to take down with him. |
00:07:25:02 | DAVE: I basically have like, a hole, |
00:07:27:10 | but then you’ve gotta like |
00:07:28:20 | get the stuff up out of the hole, |
00:07:30:17 | but if you have a thing that you could |
00:07:32:10 | take the stuff out of the hole with… |
00:07:34:00 | OLLIE: Which is a pot. |
00:07:34:22 | DAVE: …it may change your life. |
00:07:39:00 | GUILLAUME: Diver’s in the water. |
00:07:40:05 | DAVE: Copy that, diver in the water. |
00:07:41:05 | So you’re heading to the right. |
00:07:43:10 | NARRATOR: Guillaume’s diving in, |
00:07:44:18 | and Dave sees everything he sees |
00:07:47:03 | through his helmet cam. |
00:07:49:05 | He’s got a pot, a ruler |
00:07:50:24 | and a hose to follow down to the bottom. |
00:07:53:24 | DAVE: So, we’ve got a water pump, |
00:07:55:12 | a three-inch pump, |
00:07:56:09 | and we’ve got a kind of fireman’s nozzle |
00:07:58:22 | on the end of it. |
00:08:00:00 | That just pumps water through |
00:08:02:09 | and helps them move the smaller stuff out of the way, |
00:08:04:07 | and loosen up the rocks. |
00:08:09:05 | NARRATOR: Christian starts the pump, |
00:08:10:18 | but when Guillaume reaches bottom, |
00:08:13:00 | he’s lost track of the hose. |
00:08:14:20 | GUILLAUME: Can they reposition the hose? |
00:08:18:20 | DAVE: I do not know. |
00:08:20:05 | Did you see the hose on your way down? |
00:08:21:17 | GUILLAUME: I had it but it just kinda |
00:08:23:21 | slipped away somewhere. |
00:08:25:20 | DAVE: Oh, there you go. |
00:08:30:15 | GUILLAUME: Oh no! |
00:08:33:21 | MATT: Divers break everything. |
00:08:37:00 | Give them a pry bar, it’ll come back round. |
00:08:40:15 | NARRATOR: Back at Dominion Diving headquarters, |
00:08:42:23 | LaRae is hauling in |
00:08:44:03 | a remotely operated vehicle |
00:08:46:03 | that’s come back from a job site |
00:08:48:02 | tagged “NFG”. |
00:08:50:00 | LARAE: Wait ’til you see the shape of this, Dwayne. |
00:08:51:13 | MATT: We have a red tag, |
00:08:53:24 | green tag system here. |
00:08:55:22 | I get really mad when on the description |
00:08:58:15 | it just says “NFG”, no fucking good. |
00:09:01:15 | If that’s all they put on it, |
00:09:02:21 | that doesn’t explain anything of why it’s no good. |
00:09:05:20 | NARRATOR: Remotely operated vehicles |
00:09:08:04 | are made to plunge in on jobs |
00:09:10:04 | too dangerous for human divers. |
00:09:12:20 | They cost big bucks to purchase |
00:09:14:18 | and even more in upkeep and maintenance. |
00:09:17:04 | MATT: This is the biggest |
00:09:18:01 | Canadian-owned work class ROV. |
00:09:21:15 | NARRATOR: This one was out on a job |
00:09:23:00 | laying undersea electrical cable. |
00:09:25:22 | But LaRae’s shocked at the condition it’s come back in. |
00:09:28:07 | LARAE: So we have some problems. |
00:09:29:14 | NARRATOR: The big boss is mad as hell. |
00:09:32:17 | MATT: The ROV’s are like my babies, my toys, |
00:09:36:17 | my pieces of equipment. |
00:09:39:07 | MATT: Hey-o, what’s up? |
00:09:41:05 | LARAE: That’s your thruster.. |
00:09:43:07 | or your props there. |
00:09:45:04 | MATT: That’s the four-bladed prop. |
00:09:48:04 | MATT: I got my little baby back and it’s hurt. |
00:09:50:15 | So, as a parent, I’m actually hurt myself |
00:09:54:05 | and angered. |
00:09:55:06 | MATT: What else is wrong with it? |
00:09:56:14 | LARAE: I would say somebody was trying to tighten it |
00:09:58:06 | with a pair of channellocks and crushed it. |
00:10:01:11 | NARRATOR: The underwater robot isn’t just |
00:10:03:08 | beat up and bashed up, |
00:10:05:01 | it’s all sliced up too. |
00:10:07:10 | MATT: And that’s someone going along with a knife… |
00:10:09:00 | LARAE: And cutting it. |
00:10:09:15 | MATT: …and cutting the cable tie, |
00:10:10:20 | and slicing into the cable. |
00:10:12:10 | Yeah, that’s it. |
00:10:13:09 | NARRATOR: It’s just sloppy work, |
00:10:15:05 | but it cost Matt big bucks. |
00:10:17:17 | MATT: This ROV is probably the size of two milk crates |
00:10:20:09 | and you’re talking a couple hundred thousand dollars. |
00:10:24:07 | LARAE: This is a fairly new ROV too. |
00:10:28:10 | MATT: Right now, I’m guesstimating |
00:10:30:13 | from this job here, |
00:10:32:17 | there’s approximately $9,000 in damage. |
00:10:35:23 | The job before this that we let the divers |
00:10:37:21 | operate this exact same ROV, |
00:10:40:03 | there was probably $4,000 in damage. |
00:10:43:04 | LARAE: We’re going to fix all the problems that we’ve seen, |
00:10:46:00 | and we’re gonna put some new props on it |
00:10:48:12 | and take it down to Duck Rock |
00:10:51:03 | and throw it in the water, sink it to the bottom. |
00:10:53:11 | MATT: Give ‘er a test run. |
00:10:54:19 | NARRATOR: They’ve only got a few days |
00:10:56:00 | to do all the repairs |
00:10:57:11 | before the ROV has to go out on another job. |
00:11:02:24 | NARRATOR: Back over on the wharf expansion, |
00:11:04:22 | there’s no high-tech robotic gear. |
00:11:07:10 | Just a pot and a stick, |
00:11:10:03 | and now that they’ve fixed it, |
00:11:11:21 | a hose to help move the muck on the bottom. |
00:11:17:02 | The diver is back in business |
00:11:19:01 | doing messy, murky work, |
00:11:21:10 | digging out rock to anchor the key. |
00:11:25:22 | DAVE: What we’re doing down there, |
00:11:27:00 | you don’t have much visibility. |
00:11:28:07 | It stirs up all the sediment |
00:11:31:07 | and you basically can’t really see anything |
00:11:32:22 | the whole time. |
00:11:36:18 | You just sort of feel around |
00:11:38:12 | and use your other senses. |
00:11:40:20 | OLLIE: It’s basically like you’re working |
00:11:42:00 | in chocolate milk. |
00:11:43:00 | Everything’s kicking up. |
00:11:44:23 | I don’t know if you’ve ever been a kid |
00:11:45:24 | playing in the water before |
00:11:47:07 | and you stir up the bottom and it blacks everything out, |
00:11:49:09 | you can’t really see. |
00:11:52:07 | GUILLAUME: That little pot does wonders. |
00:11:54:19 | DAVE: I told you you’d learn to love it. |
00:11:56:09 | GUILLAUME: Oh yeah. |
00:11:59:01 | NARRATOR: It’s low tech down deep and dirty, |
00:12:02:04 | but worst of all, it’s slow. |
00:12:06:16 | They’ve got to dig three holes |
00:12:08:13 | and get the keys in place, |
00:12:10:14 | and they’ve only got three days |
00:12:12:22 | to finish the whole job. |
00:12:19:09 | NARRATOR: Dominion Diving’s home port of Halifax |
00:12:21:18 | is a super highway of commerce for Eastern Canada, |
00:12:25:15 | and it’s not just container ships. |
00:12:28:22 | One hundred and fifty cruise ships |
00:12:30:11 | call at the port each year. |
00:12:34:10 | Today, there are two ships docked already |
00:12:37:14 | and a third one is on its way. |
00:12:40:15 | How do you tie up a ship the size of a shopping mall? |
00:12:44:22 | Dominion’s been hired to help provide |
00:12:46:08 | some ship-to-shore service |
00:12:48:04 | for a uxury liner arriving tomorrow. |
00:12:51:13 | The first part is installing fenders |
00:12:54:08 | to keep the cruise ship from bashing into the wharf. |
00:12:57:22 | GARY: So according to this, this first one |
00:13:00:16 | should just go |
00:13:02:01 | basically right where that bollard is. |
00:13:04:15 | DONNIE: Okay, we’ll put you up on the wharf, Gary. |
00:13:07:00 | GARY: Sounds good. |
00:13:08:06 | º MUSIC º |
00:13:22:18 | GARY: C’mon little doggie. |
00:13:25:21 | NARRATOR: Installing these fenders |
00:13:27:11 | is the easy part of the job. |
00:13:29:21 | The next part, once the ship’s arrived, |
00:13:32:06 | is pretty crappy. |
00:13:36:03 | Today’s biggest cruise ships can now hold 6,000 people, |
00:13:40:01 | and everyone of those people uses the toilet. |
00:13:42:08 | When it arrives, |
00:13:44:00 | the next part of Dominion’s job |
00:13:45:20 | is getting all that stinky stuff, |
00:13:48:02 | 20 dumpsters worth, |
00:13:49:19 | off the cruise ship and to the treatment plant. |
00:13:57:08 | NARRATOR: Back on the wharf expansion, |
00:13:58:24 | on the surface, |
00:14:00:00 | all the crew can do is wait. |
00:14:04:00 | After an hour, |
00:14:05:04 | Guillaume’s getting sick of scooping up rocks |
00:14:07:24 | in cramped quarters, |
00:14:09:21 | and then watching the hole fill back in again. |
00:14:13:00 | GUILLAUME: It just keeps refilling itself. |
00:14:16:10 | DAVE: It’s kinda like if you’re at the beach |
00:14:19:05 | and you’re trying to dig a hole |
00:14:20:16 | with the water coming in |
00:14:21:24 | and it just keeps filling back in. |
00:14:23:06 | NARRATOR: Half an hour later, |
00:14:25:09 | Guillaume thinks he’s dug deep enough to hit the mark |
00:14:27:20 | on Dave’s magic measuring stick. |
00:14:30:15 | GUILLAUME: Alright, Dave. |
00:14:31:16 | NARRATOR: Dave lets the crew on the barge know they’re ready. |
00:14:35:05 | DAVE: Okay guys, |
00:14:35:24 | so we think we’ve got our hole deep enough, |
00:14:37:17 | so if you want to get in the crane, |
00:14:39:03 | we’ll start to lower it down to the diver. |
00:14:44:06 | NARRATOR: With 20 tonnes of concrete suspended in the air, |
00:14:46:22 | communication between the surface workers |
00:14:48:24 | and the diver 18 metres below, |
00:14:51:22 | is a matter of life and death. |
00:14:54:20 | DAVE: Okay, it is in the water and it is on its way down. |
00:14:57:24 | GUILLAUME: Okay, roger. |
00:15:00:19 | DAVE: So I’d like you to collect your stuff out of the hole |
00:15:03:13 | and get on the outside. |
00:15:06:07 | OLLIE: You can work yourself underneath the block, |
00:15:08:06 | I don’t know how many tonne block of concrete |
00:15:10:05 | hanging over your head, |
00:15:12:17 | and then if that falls, you’re one flat diver. |
00:15:16:00 | NARRATOR: Guillaume needs to be close enough |
00:15:17:14 | to direct the key into place, |
00:15:19:09 | but not so close he gets crushed. |
00:15:22:16 | It’s a tough call when you can barely see your hand |
00:15:24:19 | in front of your face. |
00:15:26:15 | DAVE: Do you see it? |
00:15:28:00 | GUILLAUME: Copy. I feel it. |
00:15:31:09 | NARRATOR: The key should drop neatly |
00:15:33:00 | into the hole Guillaume dug. |
00:15:35:01 | DAVE: Yeah, so is it sitting down far enough? |
00:15:37:00 | GUILLAUME: The beam is like six inches out at the bottom. |
00:15:39:14 | DAVE: So it’s not dug far enough then. |
00:15:41:11 | NARRATOR: So much for that idea. |
00:15:44:09 | Now Dave has to jiggle the key a little, |
00:15:46:11 | to try to wiggle it in. |
00:15:48:23 | Not easy when the key is three stories high. |
00:15:52:01 | DAVE: So if I get him to pick it up and move it to the left, |
00:15:54:11 | and set it back down again, it’ll be down far enough? |
00:15:56:16 | GUILLAUME: Yeah. |
00:15:57:20 | DAVE: Okay. |
00:16:00:11 | DAVE: He lifted it up and swung to the left a little bit. |
00:16:02:07 | Did it do anything? |
00:16:03:20 | GUILLAUME: That did make a difference. |
00:16:05:16 | GARY: Okay, where are we at now? |
00:16:07:17 | GUILLAUME: Four inches. |
00:16:09:09 | GARY: Yeah, okay. I think that’s pretty good, man. |
00:16:11:20 | GUILLAUME: Yeah. |
00:16:13:09 | GARY: Yeah. Let’s tighten that strongback up. |
00:16:15:17 | GUILLAUME: All right. |
00:16:18:10 | NARRATOR: The first key slab has a piece of steel I-beam |
00:16:21:03 | bolted to the bottom of if. |
00:16:22:22 | It’s called a strongback. |
00:16:25:07 | Once the bottom slab is properly placed, |
00:16:28:00 | the strongback is rotated ninety degrees |
00:16:31:07 | and tightened against the caisson edges. |
00:16:35:10 | GUILLAUME: All right, that one looks pretty good. |
00:16:37:05 | GARY: Okay, that’s good. Come up to the top one. |
00:16:39:23 | GUILLAUME: Roger. |
00:16:41:16 | NARRATOR: Then the top strongback |
00:16:42:23 | has to be lowered down. |
00:16:44:22 | GARY: Okay, that other I-beam |
00:16:45:22 | is just leaving the surface now. |
00:16:50:03 | GUILLAUME: Yeah, I see it. |
00:16:51:19 | NARRATOR: It’s bolted to the top of the concrete key slab |
00:16:54:24 | and tightened against the caissons. |
00:17:03:19 | While Guillaume works underwater, |
00:17:06:04 | Christian and Ollie make sure |
00:17:07:09 | his breathing hose doesn’t get tangled. |
00:17:10:05 | At these depths, |
00:17:11:03 | breathing regular air would give Guillaume |
00:17:13:23 | 30 minutes before dangerous nitrogen bubbles |
00:17:16:01 | form in his system. |
00:17:18:04 | CHRISTIAN: When you’re breathing air, |
00:17:19:17 | you normally breathe in 21 percent oxygen, |
00:17:22:24 | 79 percent nitrogen. |
00:17:24:23 | So we make Nitrox. |
00:17:26:15 | We bump the 02 percentage up to 40 percent |
00:17:29:04 | so you’ve got less nitrogen coming into your system, |
00:17:31:05 | so that means you can stay at depth longer. |
00:17:32:16 | So, it definitely helps for jobs like this. |
00:17:35:24 | NARRATOR: Guillaume has been in the water |
00:17:37:00 | for over two hours. |
00:17:38:21 | Dave tells him to come up. |
00:17:41:09 | GUILLAUME: You want me to come up now? |
00:17:42:16 | GARY: Yeah, yeah, you’re all good, buddy. |
00:17:43:17 | Come one back. |
00:17:45:09 | GUILLAUME: All right. Thanks. |
00:17:47:01 | NARRATOR: As Christian prepares for his turn in the water… |
00:17:50:01 | CHRISTIAN: Just gotta shake out my drysuit here. |
00:17:52:12 | NARRATOR: …a backhoe drops thousands of kilograms |
00:17:55:10 | of rock and mud to hold the key in position. |
00:18:02:03 | They’re halfway through day one |
00:18:03:21 | and the team is making good progress, |
00:18:05:24 | but before long, their luck will run out. |
00:18:09:15 | CHRISTIAN: This is horrible. |
00:18:15:07 | NARRATOR: When Christian dives in, |
00:18:16:16 | he realizes the truckload of dirt and rock |
00:18:19:03 | they’ve dumped in, |
00:18:20:09 | made the water even harder to see through. |
00:18:23:10 | But they gotta keep going. |
00:18:26:16 | CHRISTIAN: I’m just trying to orient myself here. |
00:18:29:00 | I can’t see anything. |
00:18:30:06 | NARRATOR: Above water, |
00:18:31:21 | the top key is preparing for placement. |
00:18:34:07 | Down below, Christian is mounting a strongback |
00:18:37:18 | in near zero visibility. |
00:18:40:11 | CHRISTIAN: All right, Dave, that I-beam is in place. |
00:18:43:00 | DAVE: Right on. Nice work. |
00:18:46:01 | NARRATOR: The top key is lowered down to Christian, |
00:18:48:18 | stacking one on top of the other lengthwise. |
00:18:51:07 | CHRISTIAN: All stop, all stop. |
00:18:52:20 | DAVE: Okay, we’re all stopped. |
00:18:54:15 | CHRISTIAN: Yeah, I’m gonna have to pull |
00:18:55:16 | this I-beam out, I think. |
00:18:56:15 | DAVE: Okay. |
00:18:57:20 | CHRISTIAN: We’ll slide this in and start to tighten it up |
00:18:59:05 | and hopefully that pulls it towards us. |
00:19:01:00 | DAVE: Okay. |
00:19:01:23 | NARRATOR: It’s not easy to try and pull in the bottom end |
00:19:04:01 | of a 20 tonne slab of concrete, |
00:19:06:04 | when you’re a 70 kilogram diver |
00:19:08:14 | floating in the water. |
00:19:10:20 | CHRISTIAN: I’m trying to push it in when it comes out, |
00:19:13:00 | and tighten that up before it goes back. |
00:19:15:07 | DAVE: I got ya. |
00:19:16:10 | CHRISTIAN: This mid-water stuff sucks. |
00:19:18:00 | You can never get any leverage on anything, |
00:19:19:22 | because it always just throws you the other way. |
00:19:21:19 | NARRATOR: Christian’s persistence pays off. |
00:19:24:12 | The keys seem to be aligned. |
00:19:26:21 | DAVE: Think she might go now? |
00:19:28:02 | CHRISTIAN: I think so. |
00:19:29:02 | It looks to be nice and tight up there. |
00:19:30:22 | DAVE: Yeah, okay. |
00:19:31:16 | CHRISTIAN: Yeah, let’s come down easy. |
00:19:33:00 | DAVE: Okay. |
00:19:33:23 | NARRATOR: But, there’s still something wrong. |
00:19:38:19 | The key should be level with the caissons now, |
00:19:42:00 | but it’s not. |
00:19:43:11 | DAVE: Okay. Let’s… |
00:19:45:06 | …they say it’s sitting up too high, |
00:19:46:10 | so let’s go take a look and make sure, |
00:19:48:05 | see what it looks like down below. |
00:19:49:15 | CHRISTIAN: Okay, roger. |
00:19:50:24 | DAVE: And those are seated together there nice, right? |
00:19:54:06 | CHRISTIAN: Yeah, there’s maybe about half an inch. |
00:19:56:20 | DAVE: So they’re not tight together there? |
00:19:59:00 | CHRISTIAN: No. |
00:20:00:18 | DAVE: Okay. Let’s go down a little more. |
00:20:02:03 | CHRISTIAN: Yes. Going down. |
00:20:04:16 | NARRATOR: When Christian dives down to the bottom, |
00:20:06:13 | he sees something fishy. |
00:20:08:23 | CHRISTIAN: Holy crap. |
00:20:10:10 | NARRATOR: The key isn’t all the way in the hole. |
00:20:13:08 | CHRISTIAN: Dave, I can’t even feel the footer. |
00:20:15:03 | There’s still some shit to be moved out of here. |
00:20:17:19 | DAVE: Really? |
00:20:18:18 | CHRISTIAN: I’m digging around with my hand |
00:20:19:19 | on the other side, and I’m just pulling out rocks. |
00:20:22:21 | Yeah, I don’t know, man, to get this to sit down, |
00:20:26:12 | if they want it right, |
00:20:28:04 | we’re gonna have to pull these out again, |
00:20:29:21 | get the pump back in and just redo it all. |
00:20:34:00 | NARRATOR: Right back to square one. |
00:20:39:15 | OLLIE: So basically, what’s going on now |
00:20:41:06 | is Dave’s hopping in the water. |
00:20:42:21 | Turns out we didn’t dredge quite far enough. |
00:20:47:13 | NARRATOR: They pull the top key all the way out |
00:20:49:03 | but to save time, |
00:20:50:15 | they only lift the bottom one about a meter. |
00:20:53:01 | OLLIE: Now Dave’s jumping in and fuckin’… |
00:20:56:15 | man of the hour is going to get in |
00:20:57:15 | and fix all of our problems. |
00:20:59:15 | NARRATOR: Twenty tonnes of concrete |
00:21:01:20 | just dangling in the water. |
00:21:03:22 | Dave’s gonna dive down under it, |
00:21:05:20 | and try to scrape out enough mud and rocks |
00:21:08:19 | to let the key settle into the hole properly. |
00:21:13:13 | But all Dave digs up from the bottom |
00:21:15:10 | is more frustration. |
00:21:17:00 | OLLIE: He’s basically just having a lot of rock |
00:21:18:23 | fall down back on him when he’s working. |
00:21:21:04 | So it’s just getting that last six inches of rock |
00:21:23:12 | so we can get the key to fit in |
00:21:25:00 | is just proving pretty difficult. |
00:21:28:04 | NARRATOR: Dave’s got no choice but to tell the crane |
00:21:30:09 | to pull the bottom slab out too. |
00:21:32:17 | OLLIE: So basically Dave’s coming out of the water now. |
00:21:35:11 | He ran out of bottom time. |
00:21:37:20 | The job wasn’t successful. |
00:21:39:08 | We don’t have the key in place yet, |
00:21:41:17 | but the job’s done. |
00:21:43:00 | Dave can’t stay down there any longer. |
00:21:46:06 | NARRATOR: They got nothing done, |
00:21:47:19 | and when Dave gets to the surface, |
00:21:49:11 | he’s so pissed off he can’t even talk about it. |
00:21:52:23 | The day has been a write-off. |
00:21:55:21 | Both key slabs are back on the barge |
00:21:58:15 | where they started. |
00:22:02:15 | By the time they head home, |
00:22:03:24 | Dave’s trying to be philosophical |
00:22:05:23 | about the whole thing. |
00:22:08:02 | DAVE: Well, that was disappointing. |
00:22:10:18 | OLLIE: Yeah, not a good day. |
00:22:11:15 | DAVE: Yeah. |
00:22:13:00 | Oh well. Win some, lose some. |
00:22:14:14 | OLLIE: Yeah. Story of my life. |
00:22:16:20 | Losin’ some. |
00:22:17:18 | [LAUGHTER] |
00:22:20:23 | NARRATOR: They’ve only got two days left |
00:22:22:19 | to do three days of work. |
00:22:30:15 | NARRATOR: First thing the next morning, |
00:22:32:09 | Dave’s got a new battle plan, |
00:22:34:14 | and they’re bringing in the big guns. |
00:22:37:15 | Ollie jerry-rigged some extra firepower |
00:22:40:12 | to help clear the rock at the bottom. |
00:22:43:19 | OLLIE: So we’re doing little bit of blasting |
00:22:45:10 | and jetting today. |
00:22:47:00 | This will be our weapon of choice. |
00:22:49:01 | It looks a little ugly, |
00:22:50:05 | but when you’re blasting underwater, |
00:22:51:22 | you’re kinda buoyant anyways, |
00:22:53:22 | so you’re always kinda floating a little bit, |
00:22:55:18 | so as soon as you get a hose |
00:22:56:23 | that’s shooting water out one end, |
00:22:58:10 | it has a tendency to push you away. |
00:23:01:15 | So I put a little weight on our nozzle, |
00:23:05:02 | and I’ve also put a handle down there |
00:23:06:06 | so the diver can aim. |
00:23:08:13 | Looks a little crappy but, |
00:23:09:09 | if it looks stupid but it works, |
00:23:11:15 | it ain’t stupid. |
00:23:15:23 | NARRATOR: Dominion’s divers only have two days |
00:23:18:12 | to do a three day job on the container pier expansion. |
00:23:22:07 | And they’re starting over from scratch. |
00:23:30:00 | NARRATOR: Meanwhile, Gary and his crew |
00:23:32:04 | are heading over to the cruise ship pier. |
00:23:34:24 | They’re bringing the Honey Barge |
00:23:36:18 | which is a sweet name for a ship with a stinky job. |
00:23:40:15 | They’ve got to drain the contents |
00:23:41:21 | of the cruise ships’ sewage tanks |
00:23:44:10 | called the black water. |
00:23:45:21 | DONNIE: Black water |
00:23:47:14 | is the water that goes down your toilet. |
00:23:49:14 | Gray water |
00:23:51:07 | is the water that goes down your shower. |
00:23:54:11 | NARRATOR: Before they can start pumping all that poop, |
00:23:56:20 | they gotta tie up the Honey Barge to the cruise ship. |
00:24:01:21 | Now they can get down to the dirty work. |
00:24:07:10 | They’ve got to make a connection here, |
00:24:09:22 | the business end of the ship’s sewage system. |
00:24:13:03 | Dominion brought a bunch of adapters |
00:24:14:24 | because each ship’s a little different |
00:24:18:16 | and this is a job you wanna get right the first time. |
00:24:23:03 | DONNIE: If a hose blows, |
00:24:24:07 | then it turns really bad. |
00:24:27:03 | BILLY: Ready. You can flush your toilet. |
00:24:30:09 | NARRATOR: It requires patience and a strong stomach |
00:24:32:23 | but somehow Billy has managed to keep his appetite. |
00:24:37:01 | BILLY: Maybe we’ll get out of here by suppertime. |
00:24:39:07 | NARRATOR: But if that hose blows, |
00:24:41:05 | the literal poop is going to hit the proverbial fan. |
00:24:49:15 | NARRATOR: When Dominion Diving arrives at the job site |
00:24:52:01 | for day two of the three day wharf expansion, |
00:24:54:23 | Dave’s got an idea to make up for lost time |
00:24:58:03 | in yesterday’s screw up. |
00:25:00:12 | He’s called in back-up to help with the digging. |
00:25:03:22 | DAVE: Okay so, listen, |
00:25:05:11 | what we’ve decided with the McNally’s guys |
00:25:07:17 | is that they brought over a smaller clam bucket, |
00:25:11:02 | and they’re able to dredge and remove |
00:25:13:07 | a little bit of material from in front of the keyways. |
00:25:15:05 | It’s not removing it from the exact spot |
00:25:17:06 | that we need to remove it, |
00:25:18:03 | because it’s too tight in there, |
00:25:19:21 | but they’re at least giving us a hole out front |
00:25:22:04 | so that we can blow the material somewhere, |
00:25:24:13 | rather than trying to push it up a hill, right? |
00:25:26:15 | OLLIE: This stuff’s unexpected. |
00:25:27:22 | We didn’t expect this kind of issue |
00:25:29:05 | when we were coming here. |
00:25:31:15 | NARRATOR: So, they’ve got a new plan. |
00:25:34:06 | They’ve got a little help moving rock, |
00:25:36:01 | and they’ve got a more powerful hose. |
00:25:37:24 | OLLIE: The keyway should fit in nice and smooth |
00:25:39:24 | first go, and it’s not all this kind of fartin’ around, |
00:25:42:09 | wondering if it’s going to fit. |
00:25:43:13 | It’s just going to go in smooth first time |
00:25:45:01 | and be good. |
00:25:46:09 | NARRATOR: It’s a lot of preparation on the surface |
00:25:48:12 | but the real work comes down to the divers |
00:25:50:20 | working blind and by hand. |
00:25:53:12 | DAVE: You got that measuring tool? |
00:25:55:15 | GUILLAUME: Yeah. |
00:25:56:17 | DAVE: Okay. |
00:25:58:00 | You got the pot? GUILLAUME: Right here. |
00:26:00:09 | DAVE: You guys are good to go. |
00:26:01:22 | Good luck. |
00:26:07:00 | So when we hit bottom |
00:26:08:06 | we’ll take a little look around |
00:26:09:14 | and see what we see. |
00:26:11:11 | GUILLAUME: Roger. |
00:26:15:14 | Diver’s on bottom. |
00:26:18:17 | DAVE: So does it look like they removed |
00:26:20:10 | some material for us? |
00:26:22:03 | GUILLAUME: Oh yeah, they did that. |
00:26:23:15 | There’s a big hole there. |
00:26:24:18 | DAVE: Okay, good. |
00:26:27:00 | NARRATOR: As soon as Guillaume starts digging, |
00:26:28:17 | he finds a whole new problem. |
00:26:31:23 | A precarious and dangerous pile of rocks |
00:26:34:08 | that could bury him any time. |
00:26:38:13 | It’s a nine metre mountain of backfill |
00:26:40:15 | that was dumped in to hold the key in place yesterday. |
00:26:43:21 | It could topple as Guillaume works |
00:26:46:19 | in the narrow passage between caissons. |
00:26:49:12 | Like playing Jenga 18 metres under the water |
00:26:52:22 | with rocks, |
00:26:54:03 | and Guillaume’s the bottom block. |
00:26:56:06 | DAVE: Let me know when you want us to fire up that pump. |
00:26:58:13 | GUILLAUME: Okay. Right now you don’t need to send |
00:27:00:13 | the lines yet. I’ll just get rid of those big rocks. |
00:27:03:15 | DAVE: Yeah. You just do what you’ve gotta do, bud. |
00:27:05:13 | GUILLAUME: Roger. |
00:27:10:20 | NARRATOR: Even with the blend of nitrogen and oxygen |
00:27:13:10 | pumping through this hose, |
00:27:15:00 | Guillaume’s got to come up |
00:27:17:01 | with plenty of work left to do. |
00:27:22:00 | Christian jumps in to complete the job, |
00:27:27:03 | and right away he sees exactly |
00:27:28:20 | what Guillaume’s been complaining about. |
00:27:31:24 | CHRISTIAN: It’s definitely deep enough, |
00:27:34:00 | but it’ll take a little time to get it down enough. |
00:27:37:00 | DAVE: Yeah. |
00:27:38:00 | CHRISTIAN: Holy shit. |
00:27:39:21 | DAVE: Yeah, a big mountain there. |
00:27:42:07 | CHRISTIAN: All right. Let’s… |
00:27:43:16 | DAVE: Want us to fire that up? |
00:27:44:19 | CHRISTIAN: Yeah, let’s start it up. |
00:27:45:23 | DAVE: Okay. CHRISTIAN: Going to town on ‘er. |
00:27:47:12 | DAVE: Make ‘er nice. |
00:27:49:12 | NARRATOR: Christian continues to dig, |
00:27:51:21 | but every inch gained comes at a cost. |
00:27:54:08 | CHRISTIAN: I don’t know how much more |
00:27:55:14 | this rock wall can take. |
00:27:57:10 | It’s starting to kind of dump back in on my head, |
00:27:59:17 | which I’m not really a fan of. |
00:28:01:05 | All this was clear. |
00:28:02:18 | It started to cave in on me, |
00:28:04:06 | so I had to stop. |
00:28:06:19 | It’s going to be great though, Dave. |
00:28:08:07 | DAVE: Right on, bud. I can’t wait to see it. |
00:28:11:02 | CHRISTIAN: We’re really close. We’re like, maybe this far. |
00:28:13:11 | NARRATOR: Finally, they think they’ve dug it deep enough. |
00:28:17:09 | The construction crew is eager to try |
00:28:19:00 | dropping the bottom key in place again. |
00:28:22:15 | Dave wants to be sure to get it right this time. |
00:28:28:11 | DAVE: Just be careful when you get close to the bottom |
00:28:30:04 | because we didn’t clear too far back, right? |
00:28:33:20 | Awesome, man. |
00:28:34:20 | NARRATOR: The key is lowered |
00:28:36:14 | and Christian is there to guide it into place. |
00:28:39:05 | CHRISTIAN: All right. There it is. |
00:28:42:00 | DAVE: Is there any way we can see |
00:28:44:18 | the concrete pad where they’re touching there? |
00:28:48:00 | CHRISTIAN: Okay, so this is the footer |
00:28:50:04 | that we dug down to in the bottom. |
00:28:51:22 | This here is the rubber. |
00:28:54:03 | The rubber’s about a finger width away, |
00:28:57:06 | and the concrete is about one finger from touching. |
00:29:02:10 | DAVE: Yeah. I think they’re happy with that. |
00:29:04:00 | CHRISTIAN: Okay. |
00:29:05:00 | NARRATOR: It looks promising, |
00:29:06:24 | but after yesterday’s mistakes, |
00:29:08:16 | they need to be certain. |
00:29:11:05 | CHRISTIAN: All right, Dave, my end of the tape is in place. |
00:29:13:10 | DAVE: Okay. |
00:29:14:08 | CHRISTIAN: Right on the money. |
00:29:15:10 | DAVE: Good, we’ll take it. |
00:29:16:20 | NARRATOR: They’re good to go. |
00:29:19:01 | Christian tightens the strongbacks, |
00:29:20:23 | and the dredger backfills the key. |
00:29:24:10 | This is the way things should have gone yesterday. |
00:29:28:12 | Now, it’s underwater Tetris again |
00:29:31:17 | lowering the top key into place. |
00:29:33:10 | DAVE: Coming down. |
00:29:34:22 | CHRISTIAN: Roger, coming down. |
00:29:36:21 | DAVE: So, he’s got about half the weight now. |
00:29:38:20 | NARRATOR: One final check. |
00:29:41:06 | The crane operator stops |
00:29:42:14 | just as half the slab’s enormous weight |
00:29:45:00 | is resting on the bottom key. |
00:29:47:12 | He holds the other half with the crane for safety. |
00:29:50:13 | DAVE: Just take a look to see if it’s seated right |
00:29:52:06 | in that slot there. |
00:29:53:22 | CHRISTIAN: It looks like he might be up on top of |
00:29:56:21 | the tooth on the bottom key. |
00:29:59:00 | DAVE: Yeah. Let’s come up a little bit |
00:30:00:24 | until he’s got the weight of it, |
00:30:03:03 | and then we’ll tighten that up. |
00:30:04:00 | CHRISTIAN: Okay. Sounds good. |
00:30:05:09 | NARRATOR: More adjustments. |
00:30:07:09 | Inches that make the difference. |
00:30:09:09 | They raise the key just a little, |
00:30:11:08 | as Christian tightens the strongbacks |
00:30:13:11 | to pull the key against the caisson edges. |
00:30:16:09 | CHRISTIAN: It’s bouncing out roughly an inch, |
00:30:18:11 | maybe two inches. |
00:30:19:11 | DAVE: Okay. |
00:30:20:07 | CHRISTIAN: What’s happening is that the top |
00:30:21:22 | of the bottom slab we put in is twisted a little bit. |
00:30:25:00 | NARRATOR: Everything is off by just a fraction of a degree, |
00:30:28:11 | but that’s all it takes to screw up this whole job. |
00:30:32:02 | DAVE: Can you let ‘er right down ’til you just |
00:30:34:08 | barely have any of the weight. |
00:30:36:15 | NARRATOR: Dave wants the crane to wiggle it |
00:30:38:00 | just a little bit. |
00:30:39:05 | DAVE: See if it sort of bounces itself into place. |
00:30:41:14 | NARRATOR: Dave finally catches a break. |
00:30:44:10 | CHRISTIAN: There we go. |
00:30:46:11 | DAVE: Is she closed up there? |
00:30:48:20 | CHRISTIAN: All right. |
00:30:49:23 | Well I guess they’re pretty well even. |
00:30:51:08 | On the right side it’s looking like also a one inch gap. |
00:30:54:03 | DAVE: Okay. Yeah, so they’re just going to |
00:30:55:24 | put their top bracket on. |
00:30:57:10 | NARRATOR: Now for the top strongback. |
00:31:03:10 | They’re so close, |
00:31:04:20 | but it’s still not quite a perfect fit. |
00:31:10:00 | So, they’re gonna bash it in old school. |
00:31:14:06 | A hammer, wedges |
00:31:16:10 | and a bigger wrench. |
00:31:23:15 | DAVE: That looks pretty tight. |
00:31:25:13 | CHRISTIAN: I fuckin’ hope so. |
00:31:27:17 | I cranked my heart and soul into that one. |
00:31:32:22 | NARRATOR: After two hours of breathing through this hose, |
00:31:35:22 | dive time’s up for Christian. |
00:31:39:00 | CHRISTIAN: I was digging with both hands, both feet, |
00:31:40:17 | had the pot going, |
00:31:41:18 | and the jet going. |
00:31:44:22 | NARRATOR: They’re celebrating but… |
00:31:47:00 | it’s taken two days to get one of three keys into place. |
00:31:52:04 | CHRISTIAN: Yeah. I’m gad we finally got |
00:31:53:05 | that piece in there, finally got it done. |
00:31:55:09 | And yeah, I’m happy with that. |
00:31:57:15 | DAVE: Anyway, great job, guys. |
00:31:59:14 | As a reward, we get to go and do it again immediately. |
00:32:03:00 | CHRISTIAN: Over there? DAVE: Yeah. |
00:32:04:04 | CHRISTIAN: Not going home right now? |
00:32:05:04 | DAVE: No. Absolutely not. I know. |
00:32:07:02 | NARRATOR: Nobody’s going home early tonight. |
00:32:13:10 | NARRATOR: While the guys struggle |
00:32:14:20 | with the wharf expansion on one side of the harbour, |
00:32:17:19 | over at the shop, |
00:32:19:08 | LaRae thinks she’s got her busted ROV |
00:32:22:02 | back in ship shape. |
00:32:25:01 | This remotely operated vehicle |
00:32:27:00 | came back from a job offshore labelled NFG. |
00:32:30:18 | No effin good. |
00:32:32:10 | It was beat up and sliced up, |
00:32:34:19 | and had all its propellers broken. |
00:32:37:00 | LARAE: So we have some problems. |
00:32:38:05 | NARRATOR: They replaced four propellers, |
00:32:40:01 | patched the umbilical, |
00:32:41:10 | repaired the sonar, |
00:32:42:19 | and cleaned all the connections. |
00:32:45:00 | Now, it’s gotta be tested right away |
00:32:47:23 | so it can go back out on another job. |
00:32:50:20 | They’re going to put it through its paces |
00:32:52:21 | off Duck Rock, right in Dominion’s own back yard. |
00:32:56:10 | LaRae and Dwayne are both ROV pilots, |
00:32:59:21 | but they spend most of their time fixing them. |
00:33:02:13 | LARAE: So, we’re gonna put it in the water now, |
00:33:04:10 | sink it to the bottom, |
00:33:05:09 | make sure the cameras work, lights work, |
00:33:07:10 | all the thrusters work. |
00:33:08:17 | You don’t need any training really to fly it. |
00:33:10:15 | I mean it’s pretty simple |
00:33:11:22 | but, it’s hooking it up and… |
00:33:14:01 | DWAYNE: It’s just the general overall maintenance. |
00:33:15:12 | LARAE: Yeah. |
00:33:16:24 | NARRATOR: LaRae and Dwayne took this ROV apart |
00:33:19:13 | and rebuilt the whole system from the ground up. |
00:33:23:00 | They’ve tuned up the motors, |
00:33:24:15 | replaced the propellers… |
00:33:26:02 | DWAYNE: Check your thrusters. |
00:33:26:20 | LARAE: Thrusting. |
00:33:28:15 | DWAYNE: Yup. |
00:33:29:08 | NARRATOR: …they’ve gotta check the cameras… |
00:33:31:00 | DWAYNE: And back up. |
00:33:32:11 | Okay. |
00:33:33:13 | NARRATOR: …computer circuitry |
00:33:34:23 | and electricity. |
00:33:36:19 | So, Dwayne and LaRae gotta know a bit about everything. |
00:33:40:14 | LARAE: What about the lasers? |
00:33:41:16 | DWAYNE: The lasers have been fired. |
00:33:44:06 | LARAE: All right. That’s good. |
00:33:46:00 | Chuck ‘er in. |
00:33:47:02 | DWAYNE: Yup. |
00:33:49:00 | NARRATOR: Now for the real test… |
00:33:50:15 | DWAYNE: Okay, going in. |
00:33:54:16 | NARRATOR: …sink or swim? |
00:33:57:01 | If the repairs don’t hold, |
00:33:59:13 | it’ll flood and short out. |
00:34:06:18 | There’s good news right away. |
00:34:08:24 | It’s water-tight. |
00:34:10:13 | LARAE: Okay, I’m on bottom. |
00:34:12:02 | DWAYNE: Roger. |
00:34:13:10 | NARRATOR: They had to replace four out of |
00:34:15:05 | the six propellers on the ROV, |
00:34:16:19 | and they’re all functioning exactly as expected now. |
00:34:19:22 | LARAE: Yeah, everything seems to be working great so far. |
00:34:24:15 | NARRATOR: The repaired camera’s looking good too. |
00:34:28:08 | LARAE: It’s handling nice. |
00:34:30:15 | DWAYNE: This is all right? |
00:34:31:18 | LARAE: Yeah, it’s really good actually. |
00:34:33:04 | NARRATOR: They had to patch a gash in the umbilical, |
00:34:35:14 | the cable carrying all of the electricity, |
00:34:37:15 | camera signal and computer commands. |
00:34:42:01 | LARAE: All right. That’s good. |
00:34:43:10 | DWAYNE: All right. |
00:34:45:00 | NARRATOR: With the test complete, |
00:34:46:09 | the machine is good to go. |
00:34:48:14 | Ready for its next job. |
00:34:51:16 | Hopefully, they treat the ROV with a little more TLC, |
00:34:55:06 | so it doesn’t wind up NFG all over again. |
00:35:00:11 | NARRATOR: Over at the container pier, |
00:35:02:22 | Dave’s dive crew is trying to make up for lost time. |
00:35:08:01 | Now they really gotta haul ass. |
00:35:10:09 | They’ve gotta get two more keys in place |
00:35:12:21 | by end of day tomorrow |
00:35:14:18 | and Dave’s worried the workday could be cut short. |
00:35:17:15 | The forecast is calling for a storm to roll in |
00:35:20:08 | around suppertime. |
00:35:22:20 | The crane barge is moved on to the next keyway. |
00:35:27:03 | The dredger starts filling in the first key |
00:35:29:07 | and Ollie starts suiting up, |
00:35:31:13 | but his gear is a patchwork. |
00:35:34:04 | CHRISTIAN: Okay, check your pins. |
00:35:36:11 | NARRATOR: Dry suits are supposed to keep a diver |
00:35:37:24 | from getting wet. |
00:35:39:15 | Ollie’s dry suit is in for repairs, |
00:35:41:17 | so he’s using a trashed one he found in the shop. |
00:35:45:05 | It’s full of holes, so he’s wearing |
00:35:46:19 | a borrowed wetsuit underneath. |
00:35:53:15 | NARRATOR: Ollie’s moving rock around the clock. |
00:35:56:15 | Two straight hours of small scale, human powered dredging, |
00:36:00:10 | taking out one saucepan worth of rock at a time. |
00:36:06:05 | It goes quicker this time, |
00:36:08:13 | but Ollie’s been freezing his butt off |
00:36:10:08 | in water that’s only eight degrees Celsius, |
00:36:12:21 | 46 degrees Fahrenheit. |
00:36:16:09 | OLLIE: The wet suit and the dry suit worked perfect. |
00:36:18:08 | Except my upper body was frozen. |
00:36:21:05 | My legs were great, |
00:36:22:20 | everything else, not so much. |
00:36:27:20 | NARRATOR: Over at the cruise ship pier, |
00:36:29:18 | the boys have been pumping poop for hours, |
00:36:31:24 | and it just keeps coming. |
00:36:34:05 | BILLY: Well, we’re not sure how much they’ve got left, |
00:36:36:06 | but it’s certainly still coming in. |
00:36:38:21 | NARRATOR: The Honey Barge holds about |
00:36:40:11 | 30,000 kilograms of sewage, |
00:36:42:15 | which Dominion will ferry over to a sewage treatment plant |
00:36:45:05 | further in the harbour. |
00:36:47:05 | BILLY: They’re eating good up there, I guess. |
00:36:50:05 | Oh, that’s finished, okay. |
00:36:52:13 | NARRATOR: The crew is getting sick of waiting |
00:36:54:05 | and from the smell… |
00:36:55:14 | BILLY: Still heavy. |
00:36:59:10 | NARRATOR: …so they try and help the process along. |
00:37:02:19 | They hoist the hose up to let gravity |
00:37:04:13 | do a bit more of the job. |
00:37:08:00 | BILLY: I don’t think it’s going anywhere. |
00:37:14:02 | BILLY: Be careful, you old goat. |
00:37:17:10 | Oh yeah, it’s nice and light now. |
00:37:19:20 | NARRATOR: That’s the last drop. |
00:37:22:05 | BILLY: Yeah. |
00:37:23:04 | NARRATOR: The hose held up and now Dominion |
00:37:25:08 | can finish up and deal with the paperwork. |
00:37:27:10 | DONNIE: Can someone sign our paperwork? |
00:37:28:20 | You can sign the paper? |
00:37:32:05 | We need a ship stamp too. |
00:37:35:00 | BILLY: All clear. Yeah, it went pretty good. |
00:37:38:00 | I mean, we didn’t spill any. Nobody got it on them. |
00:37:40:20 | Another shitty day. |
00:37:44:00 | NARRATOR: Over at the container pier, |
00:37:45:21 | Dave’s pushing hard to make up for lost time. |
00:37:49:20 | They’re ready to install another concrete slab. |
00:37:54:07 | The barge team prepares to lower the bottom key, |
00:37:57:04 | and Christian dives in to guide it into place. |
00:38:01:23 | But some problems are beyond their control. |
00:38:05:16 | The weather starts to turn. |
00:38:07:21 | The wind picks up, |
00:38:09:16 | the water gets choppy. |
00:38:11:18 | Christian can feel the storm coming |
00:38:13:13 | even 60 feet below. |
00:38:16:00 | CHRISTIAN: Is it rough out there or something. |
00:38:17:20 | DAVE: Shit is crazy, pal. |
00:38:19:05 | CHRISTIAN: Is it? |
00:38:21:04 | Yeah, this thing’s just going wild. |
00:38:23:17 | DAVE: Are you scared? |
00:38:25:17 | CHRISTIAN: I’m not calm. |
00:38:30:09 | NARRATOR: They manage to lower the top part |
00:38:31:19 | of the second key just before the storm rolls in. |
00:38:37:05 | They’ve got two keys in place. |
00:38:39:09 | They’ve only got one day left to put in the last key. |
00:38:50:12 | NARRATOR: The next morning, the dive team is up early |
00:38:52:12 | to finish the job. |
00:38:54:07 | DAVE: All right. We should leave. |
00:38:59:24 | NARRATOR: Dave’s feeling confident, |
00:39:01:20 | but if they make any mistakes, |
00:39:03:20 | they’ll be out of time and lose the contract. |
00:39:07:00 | They’ve brought extra manpower, Boots, |
00:39:10:03 | an experienced diver. |
00:39:15:04 | DAVE: So today we’re moving onto the third keyhole. |
00:39:19:19 | This one’s like twice as hard as the last one. |
00:39:22:14 | Twice as much material. |
00:39:24:05 | NARRATOR: While Christian suits up, |
00:39:25:18 | Dave talks to the site foreman about the plan for the day. |
00:39:29:05 | DAVE: You want to do this one, |
00:39:30:07 | obviously get this one done, |
00:39:31:17 | and then you want to do this hundred percent? |
00:39:33:01 | FOREMAN: Yeah. |
00:39:34:05 | DAVE: And then… |
00:39:35:18 | NARRATOR: He gets a nasty surprise. |
00:39:38:06 | FOREMAN: And then, before the end of the day, |
00:39:40:05 | we want to just check out visually, |
00:39:42:07 | how bad that one is there. |
00:39:45:00 | NARRATOR: The top slab of key number one, |
00:39:46:24 | a 20-tonne block of concrete, |
00:39:49:04 | has disappeared. |
00:39:51:20 | This means trouble. |
00:39:56:15 | NARRATOR: Before Dave even gets started |
00:39:58:05 | on the last day of expanding this container pier, |
00:40:01:04 | one of the massive slabs they already laid, |
00:40:03:18 | somehow vanished. |
00:40:06:21 | DAVE: The key that we already put in, |
00:40:09:09 | now they can’t see it, |
00:40:10:09 | so we can only assume that something has failed. |
00:40:13:05 | NARRATOR: Dave decides to tackle this new problem right away. |
00:40:17:15 | He moves Dominions boat to be closer to the fallen key. |
00:40:21:02 | DAVE: Now once again, it’s kind of like |
00:40:22:17 | two steps forward, three steps backward kind of thing so. |
00:40:28:15 | We’ll see how it goes. |
00:40:30:21 | NARRATOR: Everybody’s pissed off. |
00:40:33:10 | Nobody was expecting this. |
00:40:36:00 | OLLIE: Basically, we’re almost back to square one. |
00:40:38:00 | That’s what it feels like anyway. |
00:40:39:09 | So, it’s just disappointing to say the least. |
00:40:44:12 | NARRATOR: They’ve got no choice but to dive in and look for it. |
00:40:48:12 | Dave’s still struggling to figure out what happened. |
00:40:51:09 | DAVE: If you can’t see it, you can only assume… |
00:40:53:09 | it can’t fall this way |
00:40:54:19 | because there’s concrete in the way, |
00:40:56:09 | so it must have fallen back like this. |
00:40:58:11 | So hopefully we can get back onto it and pull it upright, |
00:41:01:06 | and then backfill behind it |
00:41:02:24 | so that it doesn’t fall down again. |
00:41:05:03 | DAVE: All right so, |
00:41:06:13 | my guys getting dressed there right now. |
00:41:08:01 | We’re going to hop in and do that. |
00:41:16:00 | CHRISTIAN: Diver’s in the water. |
00:41:18:05 | DAVE: Copy that. Diver in the water. |
00:41:24:15 | NARRATOR: It doesn’t take Christian long |
00:41:26:08 | to find the bottom of the key, |
00:41:27:21 | but where is the other 20-tonne concrete slab? |
00:41:32:10 | CHRISTIAN: Lots of big rocks like they were dumping |
00:41:34:07 | and stuff in here. |
00:41:35:23 | So that pile of rocks is starting to go downhill… |
00:41:38:11 | NARRATOR: Christian follows a trail of debris |
00:41:40:20 | until he finds it. |
00:41:42:19 | CHRISTIAN: All right, I found the fallen key. |
00:41:47:00 | The rubbers are facing up, so yeah, |
00:41:49:03 | it fell inwards and back down the hill. |
00:41:51:17 | DAVE: So it’s like you said… |
00:41:53:24 | and slid down the bank upside down. |
00:41:56:05 | CHRISTIAN: So it looks like that’s the bottom hole |
00:41:59:08 | where the anchor was set, is completely gone. |
00:42:01:23 | DAVE: Okay. So the bottom anchor is missing. |
00:42:04:07 | CHRISTIAN: Yeah, roger. |
00:42:06:08 | NARRATOR: The storm’s high wind and waves overnight |
00:42:08:12 | causes the strongbacks to fail and the key fell. |
00:42:13:06 | Finding the nine metre concrete slab wasn’t hard… |
00:42:16:09 | CHRISTIAN: Looks like the bottom lifting eye |
00:42:18:07 | is free and clear for a hook-up if we need it. |
00:42:20:23 | NARRATOR: …but they’re gonna need a crane |
00:42:22:07 | to hoist it up off the bottom. |
00:42:27:00 | But, the crane’s over on the other job site, |
00:42:30:15 | so it’s back to what they originally planned for today. |
00:42:34:05 | Digging another ditch to drop the third key into. |
00:42:37:20 | DAVE: Where are you right now? |
00:42:39:12 | CHRISTIAN: Yeah, I’m pretty close. |
00:42:40:12 | Maybe another half hour tops. |
00:42:42:24 | DAVE: Yeah, okay. Cool. |
00:42:46:10 | NARRATOR: Twenty-seven minutes later |
00:42:47:20 | the barge crew is ready, |
00:42:49:10 | and so is Christian. |
00:42:50:20 | CHRISTIAN: All right, Dave, let’s do this. |
00:42:59:14 | DAVE: Coming down now. |
00:43:00:14 | CHRISTIAN: Roger, coming down. |
00:43:04:00 | CHRISTIAN: Looks like it’s touching on the inside |
00:43:05:17 | pretty good. We got good coverage there. |
00:43:08:15 | DAVE: Okay, so I’d say that’s a win. |
00:43:10:17 | NARRATOR: It’s a perfect fit. |
00:43:13:12 | Now it’s tighten up the strongbacks, |
00:43:15:16 | backfill, and drop in the top key. |
00:43:18:11 | Tighten more strongbacks, |
00:43:20:12 | more backfill, |
00:43:21:20 | and that’s part two complete. |
00:43:24:05 | They’re running out of daylight. |
00:43:28:00 | They reposition the barge and hoist the fallen key |
00:43:30:23 | from the bottom. |
00:43:34:00 | Christian’s day is done. |
00:43:36:05 | CHRISTIAN: Aw man, I’m fuckin’ gassed. |
00:43:39:18 | NARRATOR: All that’s left is to refit the fallen slab. |
00:43:42:14 | A repair is done to the strongback, |
00:43:44:22 | and Boots goes in to finish the job. |
00:43:48:10 | BOOTS: All right, you ready for this? |
00:43:49:24 | OLLIE: Yup. |
00:43:55:15 | NARRATOR: Twenty tonnes of concrete |
00:43:57:00 | is dangling in the air, |
00:43:59:01 | but Boots needs to clear some debris |
00:44:00:15 | from the top of the bottom key. |
00:44:03:20 | DAVE: Is that some rocks on top of that, or what? |
00:44:05:05 | BOOTS: Yeah, from when they were dumping it. |
00:44:10:24 | DAVE: She’s coming down there now. |
00:44:12:13 | BOOTS: Okay. I think I got eyes on the prize. |
00:44:15:21 | DAVE: Okay. |
00:44:18:05 | NARRATOR: Dave keeps his fingers crossed |
00:44:19:18 | as the two keys meet. |
00:44:21:19 | BOOTS: Okay, so we’re in the right place here. |
00:44:23:24 | DAVE: Yeah. |
00:44:25:10 | BOOTS: I think he has to boom up, |
00:44:27:03 | because he’s not quite on this alignment piece. |
00:44:30:24 | NARRATOR: It takes a delicate touch on the crane’s controls |
00:44:34:06 | to just nudge the 20-tonne slab. |
00:44:39:05 | BOOTS: There she goes. |
00:44:40:16 | NARRATOR: The finishing touch for the Dominion crew |
00:44:43:02 | is strongbacks. |
00:44:47:00 | Boots cranks the last few turns of the wrench. |
00:44:51:05 | DAVE: Okay pal, that’s it. We nailed it, we killed it. |
00:44:53:08 | We did everything. |
00:44:56:17 | NARRATOR: Boots comes aboard, |
00:45:01:07 | and the Dominion crew casts off. |
00:45:03:19 | They got the job done and just in the nick of time. |
00:45:10:13 | As the world gets smaller, the boats become bigger, |
00:45:13:21 | but no matter how massive they get, |
00:45:15:08 | there’s still nitty gritty, down and dirty |
00:45:17:18 | jobs to be done |
00:45:19:11 | by the Lords of the Ocean. |
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