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This is the script for Episode Nine 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.
00:01:02:00 | º MUSIC º |
00:01:03:00 | NARRATOR: These little squirts |
00:01:04:14 | cause a huge problem |
00:01:06:02 | on an underwater clean-up mission. |
00:01:10:10 | DAVE: Looks awful. |
00:01:11:19 | OLLIE: Yeah, it looks awful. |
00:01:13:01 | NARRATOR: Bone-chilling weather |
00:01:14:06 | and gruelling labour make life hell, |
00:01:17:13 | pushing Dominion’s divers right over the edge. |
00:01:23:15 | NARRATOR: And one diver’s career |
00:01:25:10 | [BANG] |
00:01:26:06 | could be cut-off at the knees. |
00:01:27:22 | OLLIE: I’m in a lot of pain. |
00:01:29:06 | SHAWN: Grab the truck. |
00:01:31:07 | NARRATOR: For 50 years, |
00:01:32:19 | this family’s built a business |
00:01:34:14 | where nobody else dares. |
00:01:36:09 | Recovering, |
00:01:37:12 | repairing, |
00:01:38:18 | and resurrecting anything |
00:01:40:16 | in the world’s most dangerous waters. |
00:01:42:24 | This is their world. |
00:01:45:20 | Salt water in their blood |
00:01:47:18 | come hell and high water. |
00:01:49:17 | MATT: It’s go time. |
00:01:50:20 | Do or die. |
00:01:51:18 | º THEME MUSIC º |
00:02:22:15 | NARRATOR: Winter’s got the North Atlantic |
00:02:24:09 | in its icy grasp, |
00:02:26:09 | but Halifax Harbour never freezes, |
00:02:28:20 | and hell will freeze over |
00:02:30:20 | before the work stops at Dominion Diving. |
00:02:34:24 | Working outside is going to be cold and miserable, |
00:02:37:16 | and today’s job is one Christian and Ollie |
00:02:39:21 | have never done before. |
00:02:41:15 | OLLIE: We’re gearing up for a hull scrub. |
00:02:43:01 | A hull scrub can be pretty exciting ’cause this is |
00:02:45:00 | mine and Christian’s first time doing a hull scrub, |
00:02:47:00 | and from what I’ve been hearing from Boots and Shawn |
00:02:49:15 | and the boys in the shops and the older dogs, |
00:02:51:09 | is the hull scrubbing gear can kick your ass a little bit |
00:02:54:00 | if you don’t know how to use it. |
00:02:58:18 | NARRATOR: Dominion Diving has been hired |
00:03:00:04 | to clean the hull of the Earl Grey, |
00:03:03:01 | an essential Canadian Coast Guard vessel. |
00:03:06:08 | The Earl Grey is a 35 year old light ice breaker, |
00:03:10:10 | built for working in the frigid waters of the North Atlantic. |
00:03:13:20 | It’s nearly 70 meters long |
00:03:16:10 | and displaces nearly 3,000 tonnes. |
00:03:20:23 | It’s got a flat bottom and a reinforced hull |
00:03:23:11 | for smashing through ice |
00:03:25:05 | more than half a meter thick. |
00:03:27:04 | It also has a large powerful crane |
00:03:29:16 | that’s been used in some high-profile |
00:03:31:20 | heavy rescue and recovery jobs. |
00:03:38:06 | Scrubbing a ship isn’t as easy |
00:03:39:11 | as going through a car wash. |
00:03:41:17 | Dominion’s divers are going to scour every inch |
00:03:44:11 | with steel power scrubbers. |
00:03:46:24 | But the equipment presents dangers of its own. |
00:03:50:01 | OLLIE: The biggest thing is making sure |
00:03:51:21 | your umbilical is free and clear |
00:03:53:16 | and not getting it snagged up in any of the gear |
00:03:55:10 | ’cause some of the gear we’re using |
00:03:57:10 | is pretty gnarly like this metal. |
00:03:59:05 | Basically, your cleaning the hull with these discs |
00:04:02:01 | and they’re spinning a mile a minute kind of thing. |
00:04:04:00 | So if you get your fingers or your face |
00:04:06:08 | or your umbilical snagged up in there |
00:04:07:24 | it’s not gonna feel too good at all. |
00:04:10:00 | That’ll hurt quite a bit. |
00:04:15:00 | NARRATOR: It’s the crack of dawn |
00:04:16:09 | and Dave is leading the operation, |
00:04:18:02 | hoping to get it done on a tight schedule. |
00:04:21:01 | DAVE: I wouldn’t quite say this is a two-day job, |
00:04:23:20 | but it’s probably, |
00:04:26:01 | it could be more than a one-day job. |
00:04:28:05 | But we have one day to do it. |
00:04:29:23 | So hopefully everything works fine, |
00:04:31:14 | ’cause we don’t really have time for problems. |
00:04:34:05 | So we have to get there, do a pre-inspection of the boat, |
00:04:37:07 | then we’ll get started cleaning the boat. |
00:04:39:12 | And once we’re finished that, |
00:04:41:18 | we have to do a full in-water inspection |
00:04:44:15 | on the vessel as well. |
00:04:46:15 | So it’s a big day. |
00:04:50:05 | NARRATOR: And it’s off to a bumpy start. |
00:04:53:20 | DAVE: Halifax Traffic, Dominion Bearcat. |
00:04:55:16 | Good morning. We are now departing |
00:04:57:09 | Dartmouth Cove for BIO. |
00:05:01:08 | HALIFAX TRAFFIC: Dominion Bearcat, Halifax Traffic. |
00:05:02:23 | Roger. Dartmouth Cove for BIO. Over. |
00:05:07:08 | NARRATOR: Luckily, the Coast Guard station |
00:05:09:08 | is only a few kilometers away by boat. |
00:05:17:00 | OLLIE: This is the Earl Grey right here. |
00:05:18:16 | This is the vessel we will be hull scrubbing. |
00:05:21:04 | We’re gonna tie up, hop in the water |
00:05:23:14 | and give this bad boy a scrub. |
00:05:30:14 | DAVE: Halifax Traffic, Dominion Bearcat. |
00:05:32:06 | We are now secure at BIO. |
00:05:36:13 | NARRATOR: The Earl Grey is 40 meters across |
00:05:38:22 | and about half its 17 meter draft sits below water. |
00:05:43:20 | Over time, everything below water |
00:05:46:14 | gets encrusted with marine life. |
00:05:48:22 | Mussels, kelp, |
00:05:50:17 | and tube-like creatures called sea squirts. |
00:05:56:15 | Every second counts in a rescue, |
00:05:58:19 | and the living carpet on the ship’s hull, |
00:06:00:23 | could slow it down by as much as 10 percent. |
00:06:05:16 | It’s all gotta come off. |
00:06:14:17 | NARRATOR: If Dave wants to get this done today, |
00:06:17:03 | everything is gonna have to go like clockwork. |
00:06:20:20 | But nothing’s gonna be easy on this job. |
00:06:25:05 | [TAP TAP TAP] |
00:06:27:05 | OLLIE: [GRUNTING] |
00:06:31:02 | OLLIE: [GRUNTING] |
00:06:33:00 | CHRISTIAN: There we go. |
00:06:34:23 | Nice. |
00:06:38:10 | OLLIE: Just making sure everything’s tight |
00:06:39:15 | and one of those discs doesn’t fly off |
00:06:40:20 | and smoke somebody in the face. |
00:06:43:04 | NARRATOR: There’s already trouble. |
00:06:45:19 | High winds and snow. |
00:06:50:24 | It makes everything take longer. |
00:06:59:05 | OLLIE: This is for the compressor |
00:07:00:22 | for the hull scrubber. |
00:07:02:17 | It takes a lot to start in the cold. |
00:07:06:08 | NARRATOR: Dave is anxious to get the divers underwater. |
00:07:09:10 | [COMPRESSOR STARTS] |
00:07:11:09 | The compressor finally starts… |
00:07:13:00 | OLLIE: There you go. |
00:07:14:00 | NARRATOR: …then immediately breaks down. |
00:07:15:24 | BOOTS: You gotta be fuckin’ kiddin’ me. |
00:07:20:00 | It fuckin’ squirted all over my leg. |
00:07:24:18 | NARRATOR: The bitter cold makes the rubber hoses brittle. |
00:07:28:02 | OLLIE: Holy fuck. |
00:07:30:01 | OLLIE: One of our hydraulic hoses kinda let go |
00:07:32:03 | and kinda exploded everywhere. |
00:07:33:09 | Our fitting split in half. |
00:07:35:12 | It’s just gonna slow us down a little bit. |
00:07:37:09 | DAVE: Anyway, we’ll switch hoses. |
00:07:39:00 | Are you interested in going diving today? Right now? |
00:07:42:14 | CHRISTIAN: I guess. |
00:07:43:13 | DAVE: That’s fantastic. |
00:07:44:22 | Let’s just get ourselves geared up and go diving. |
00:07:47:18 | NARRATOR: Dave sends Christian in to inspect |
00:07:49:05 | the marine growth around the hull, |
00:07:51:08 | while Boots and Ollie try to get the hull scrubber |
00:07:53:15 | up and running. |
00:07:55:02 | DAVE: You know it’s typical that we find problems, |
00:07:58:09 | especially when it’s cold out. |
00:08:00:00 | In this particular instance, |
00:08:01:02 | we’ve got a fitting that’s got a crack in it, |
00:08:03:23 | so we had to switch out the lines. |
00:08:05:21 | Not a huge deal, |
00:08:07:03 | but already we’re starting to see some, |
00:08:09:05 | you know, just gear issues. |
00:08:11:23 | So hopefully that’s just our little one |
00:08:14:00 | that we get out of the way, |
00:08:15:01 | and then we can continue on and have no other |
00:08:17:09 | major problems throughout the day. |
00:08:20:00 | CHRISTIAN: I’ve heard all the horror stories from Boots. |
00:08:22:15 | DAVE: You’re gonna love it. |
00:08:23:15 | CHRISTIAN: I’ve been mentally dreading this day, |
00:08:25:05 | but the time has come. |
00:08:27:10 | OLLIE: Christian hasn’t used this machine before. |
00:08:28:10 | Both me and Christian are new to it. |
00:08:30:05 | We’ve heard lots of horror stories |
00:08:31:03 | about it just beating the shit out of guys, |
00:08:32:17 | basically chewing you up and spitting you out. |
00:08:35:20 | So yeah. |
00:08:36:22 | As you can see, Christian’s super stoked. |
00:08:38:03 | Face of a champion, eye of the tiger. |
00:08:40:04 | He’s fuckin’ ready to get in the water |
00:08:41:06 | and fuckin’ go kill some sea life. |
00:08:44:11 | OLLIE: What pack you want, big guy? |
00:08:49:01 | NARRATOR: As the mercury plummets, |
00:08:50:12 | so does the morale of the crew. |
00:08:56:22 | OLLIE: As you can see the joys of winter diving, |
00:08:58:13 | all our gear is frozen stiff. |
00:09:00:15 | Everything freezes. |
00:09:03:08 | Your fingers feel like they are gonna fall off |
00:09:05:03 | and you hate your life. |
00:09:06:23 | As soon as Christian gets out of the water, |
00:09:08:05 | we’re basically racing against time |
00:09:09:05 | to get him out of the pack, |
00:09:10:12 | before he’s frozen into it, |
00:09:12:02 | and we gotta put him in a trailer |
00:09:13:11 | and basically thaw him out again |
00:09:14:22 | before he can get out of the gear. |
00:09:19:08 | NARRATOR: It’s 10 degrees below freezing. |
00:09:21:20 | The wind makes it feel a lot colder, |
00:09:24:02 | but it’s even worse in the water. |
00:09:27:00 | OLLIE: So the water’s probably around one to two degrees. |
00:09:29:24 | The only problem with that is it sucks heat a lot faster |
00:09:32:03 | than the air does. |
00:09:33:14 | So it might sound warmer, |
00:09:35:08 | but in reality it’s fuckin’ hell in there. |
00:09:38:15 | DAVE: Do you want to tell us |
00:09:39:15 | what you’re looking at there, Christian? |
00:09:41:05 | NARRATOR: Through the helmet cam, |
00:09:43:02 | they see the build-up of marine life |
00:09:45:05 | is worse than anyone expected. |
00:09:47:24 | CHRISTIAN: Port side of the bow. |
00:09:49:12 | As you can see we have some |
00:09:51:09 | marine growth on the side here. |
00:09:53:10 | I’d say probably… |
00:09:58:04 | DAVE: Looks awful. |
00:09:59:18 | OLLIE: Yeah, it looks fuckin’ awful. |
00:10:01:16 | NARRATOR: Dave’s one-day job is turning out |
00:10:04:05 | to be a hell of a lot bigger than he expected. |
00:10:14:21 | NARRATOR: Millions of marine creatures |
00:10:16:04 | glued to the bottom of this Coast Guard ship |
00:10:18:12 | make the job of cleaning it bigger and more difficult |
00:10:21:24 | than Dave expected. |
00:10:27:06 | CHRISTIAN: Still appears to be a hundred percent coverage. |
00:10:29:06 | DAVE: She’s pretty hairy. |
00:10:30:00 | Got quite a bit of marine growth on it. |
00:10:33:04 | Mostly soft marine growth from what we can see right now. |
00:10:35:23 | CHRISTIAN: It looks like roughly around five centimetres, |
00:10:40:12 | from the waterline right down to the keel, |
00:10:43:00 | from what I can see. |
00:10:44:07 | DAVE: It looks like this boat, |
00:10:46:04 | from what’s growing on it, |
00:10:47:08 | has been stationary for a while. |
00:10:49:09 | And when you get down a little bit more, |
00:10:51:03 | like a few feet underwater, |
00:10:52:14 | we’re into these soft sea squirts. |
00:10:55:22 | It sounds like soft marine growth is not a bad thing, |
00:10:58:06 | but it can be worse |
00:10:59:20 | because it just sort of smushes around |
00:11:01:11 | rather than just comes right off, |
00:11:03:00 | and it gums up your stuff, |
00:11:04:07 | your equipment, your brushes. |
00:11:06:17 | OLLIE: I’ve done lots of pressure washing, |
00:11:08:00 | and I know sea squirts are fuckin’ shitty. |
00:11:10:10 | DAVE: Yeah, they don’t want to come off. OLLIE: No. |
00:11:12:12 | DAVE: A lot of times when we do a hull cleaning, |
00:11:14:14 | there’ll be like a little bit of stuff on the sides |
00:11:16:09 | and then some patches where there’s |
00:11:18:20 | stuff that needs to be cleaned. |
00:11:20:03 | This is a hundred percent coverage. |
00:11:23:05 | CHRISTIAN: It’s even thicker down here now. |
00:11:25:00 | DAVE: So if these boats are driving around, |
00:11:27:07 | if they’ve got four inches of this soft marine growth on it, |
00:11:31:16 | it’s a huge amount of drag and resistance. |
00:11:35:12 | CHRISTIAN: …about four or five inches. |
00:11:38:09 | NARRATOR: Because the Earl Grey is 70 meters long |
00:11:41:00 | and 40 meters wide, |
00:11:42:19 | this job is gonna be like scrubbing five inches of rubber |
00:11:46:09 | off an area more than half an acre. |
00:11:50:01 | DAVE: We’re gonna have to clean every square inch of it. |
00:11:54:10 | Okay, copy that. Thank you. |
00:11:56:07 | So this will conclude our before look at the hull. |
00:12:00:02 | So, yeah, I guess we’ll give you the machine |
00:12:02:10 | and see if that takes ’em off. |
00:12:05:00 | NARRATOR: Here comes the scrubber. |
00:12:13:05 | [COMPRESSOR STARTS] |
00:12:15:10 | DAVE: Are they spinning? CHRISTIAN: Yeah. |
00:12:16:20 | DAVE: Okay, good. So just leave it running, |
00:12:18:16 | flip that thing sideways and stick it on. |
00:12:22:15 | You’re in the business. |
00:12:24:10 | You’re scrubbing. |
00:12:25:15 | OLLIE: [LAUGHS] That’s fuckin’ wicked! |
00:12:29:01 | CHRISTIAN: It’s some good, I will say. |
00:12:30:18 | DAVE: Yeah. |
00:12:33:07 | NARRATOR: The hull scrubber is a gas-powered |
00:12:34:23 | hydraulic power tool |
00:12:36:20 | and has a bad reputation for tossing divers around. |
00:12:41:00 | OLLIE: Looks like he’s figuring it out. |
00:12:42:16 | He’s not getting fuckin’ eaten alive by it. |
00:12:45:00 | That’s a good thing. |
00:12:46:07 | If it was a new guy it’d be a different story, |
00:12:47:22 | but Christian’s a good guy, |
00:12:49:01 | I don’t want to see him get his ass kicked |
00:12:50:04 | by a fuckin’ hull scrubber. |
00:12:53:16 | NARRATOR: Sea squirts get their name from their ability |
00:12:55:17 | to contract their bodies and squirt water. |
00:12:58:11 | They’re fascinating creatures, |
00:13:00:05 | but they don’t need your sympathy. |
00:13:04:20 | Besides being a nuisance for the marine industry, |
00:13:07:01 | they’re also an invasive species |
00:13:09:03 | that hitch rides on boats |
00:13:11:00 | and choke out native ocean life. |
00:13:16:01 | Sea squirts start out life as tiny tadpole-like creatures |
00:13:19:18 | with a primitive spinal cord and brain, |
00:13:22:09 | until they find something to anchor onto. |
00:13:26:06 | Then they digest their own brains and nervous system |
00:13:29:01 | and grow into these tubes that feed |
00:13:31:00 | by filtering microscopic creatures out of the water. |
00:13:36:20 | So by the time they’re being scrubbed off |
00:13:38:13 | the bottom of a boat, |
00:13:39:22 | they’re not capable of feeling any pain. |
00:13:43:15 | CHRISTIAN: Groovy. |
00:13:47:22 | NARRATOR: The hull scrubber’s throwing lots of debris |
00:13:50:12 | into the water, but Dave isn’t convinced |
00:13:53:01 | it’s actually getting down to the metal. |
00:13:56:13 | DAVE: A lot of times when it’s thick like this, |
00:13:58:12 | you’ll get some stuff off but it’s not clean enough, |
00:14:01:07 | so you end up going over everything twice, |
00:14:04:10 | which is kind of a drag. |
00:14:07:12 | So we’ll make our plan as we go. |
00:14:11:20 | So this will be the moment of truth then, |
00:14:13:11 | when you go back over what you just did |
00:14:15:00 | and see if it actually took it off. |
00:14:19:10 | NARRATOR: Finally, Christian’s scrubbing |
00:14:20:20 | reveals the Coast Guard’s signature red paint, |
00:14:23:17 | in a few spots anyway. |
00:14:25:19 | CHRISTIAN: Ah, a little bit. I mean, it’s not great. |
00:14:29:18 | NARRATOR: It’s just not working fast enough. |
00:14:33:10 | CHRISTIAN: Fuck sakes. |
00:14:35:20 | I’ll do a second pass on the fuckin’ sea squirts. |
00:14:39:00 | DAVE: Yeah, are they coming off at all? |
00:14:40:10 | CHRISTIAN: No. |
00:14:46:00 | DAVE: We just did a couple passes over them |
00:14:47:18 | with the brushes, |
00:14:48:21 | and it doesn’t seem to do anything |
00:14:50:04 | so, we could be… |
00:14:52:07 | we could be looking at just cleaning up the waterline |
00:14:54:17 | with our brush carts and |
00:14:57:00 | possibly having to hand scrape all the rest of it, |
00:14:59:23 | which takes a lot of time. |
00:15:02:17 | Very labour intensive. |
00:15:05:20 | DAVE: Yeah, they just don’t come off. |
00:15:08:00 | CHRISTIAN: Unfortunately not. I can try a third pass. |
00:15:10:16 | DAVE: No, we’re going to have to change our tactic |
00:15:12:17 | for those sea squirts. |
00:15:13:20 | CHRISTIAN: Okay. |
00:15:18:20 | OLLIE: So basically |
00:15:20:17 | the hull scrubber’s not taking |
00:15:22:00 | the sea squirts off the bottom, |
00:15:25:15 | so we’re going back to old faithful. |
00:15:27:13 | We’re just going to hand scrape the bottom |
00:15:29:00 | and hopefully haul it all off with that. |
00:15:33:10 | NARRATOR: Let’s hope old faithful delivers the goods. |
00:15:38:15 | So it’s out with the high tech, |
00:15:40:09 | and in goes the low tech. |
00:15:45:21 | It’s a sidewalk scraper |
00:15:47:17 | for removing ice in the Canadian winter, |
00:15:50:10 | and it’s pretty good dealing with sea squirts. |
00:15:53:00 | But, it’s not fast. |
00:15:54:22 | DAVE: This will slow things up considerably, |
00:15:57:07 | but there’s no real quick solutions. |
00:15:59:16 | We just gotta sorta do it. |
00:16:03:24 | NARRATOR: But at this rate, this one-day contract |
00:16:06:05 | is gonna take at least three days to finish. |
00:16:11:15 | After that, the Earl Grey has gotta leave port |
00:16:14:09 | for its next Arctic patrol. |
00:16:17:09 | Delays come out of Dominion’s bottom line. |
00:16:20:06 | Worse than that, |
00:16:21:04 | they piss off an important customer. |
00:16:24:04 | They gotta get this done before the Earl Grey ships out. |
00:16:30:09 | Dave decides to put extra manpower on the job, |
00:16:32:24 | so Ollie’s gearing up to join Christian in the water. |
00:16:39:02 | At these temperatures divers wear dry suits. |
00:16:41:21 | But Ollie’s dry suit is out for repair |
00:16:44:21 | and the spare is full of holes. |
00:16:48:00 | OLLIE: We’ve been super busy for the last couple of months |
00:16:49:19 | and we’ve been running crazy, |
00:16:52:02 | so I had a couple small holes in my suit |
00:16:54:06 | that essentially turned into wizard sleeves. |
00:16:56:18 | So I’m wearing Boots’ wetsuit underneath, |
00:17:00:01 | which if you’ve ever seen Boots compared to me, |
00:17:02:10 | he’s a about maybe a foot shorter than I am |
00:17:04:06 | and I probably got a hundred pounds of gut on Boots. |
00:17:06:15 | I’m definitely a bigger boy than he is. |
00:17:08:10 | So I can’t even zip his wet suit up. |
00:17:10:18 | And then I’m fuckin’ cramming |
00:17:12:03 | a dry suit on top of that, |
00:17:14:00 | and I gotta get Boots to basically zip me into it. |
00:17:17:00 | NARRATOR: With that beard, Ollie looks like |
00:17:19:08 | a salty old sailor, but he’s only 27. |
00:17:22:15 | He’s been a commercial diver less than two years. |
00:17:31:22 | NARRATOR: This is his dream job, |
00:17:33:19 | even if it means being crammed into a wetsuit |
00:17:36:13 | two sizes too small, |
00:17:38:09 | with a leaky dry suit stretched over top. |
00:17:45:23 | NARRATOR: Not the most graceful entrance, |
00:17:48:00 | but at least he’s having fun for now. |
00:17:51:11 | But once the water gets in, fun time’s over. |
00:17:54:10 | He might as well be naked in temperatures |
00:17:57:00 | two degrees above freezing. |
00:18:01:10 | NARRATOR: Ollie’s own dry suit is out for repairs |
00:18:04:10 | and you can’t get that done at just any old tailor. |
00:18:07:22 | They’re custom-made requiring specialized skills, |
00:18:11:04 | tools and materials. |
00:18:15:06 | Luckily, one of the world’s top manufacturers |
00:18:17:24 | is located right in Dominion’s own back yard. |
00:18:21:08 | Abyss Diving Suits has been building and repairing |
00:18:24:05 | commercial dive gear for 25 years. |
00:18:28:21 | They’re putting Ollie’s gear together again |
00:18:30:19 | one piece at a time. |
00:18:58:11 | NARRATOR: Gim George used to be a commercial diver himself, |
00:19:01:17 | so keeping divers warm |
00:19:03:09 | is near and “dear” to his heart. |
00:19:41:05 | NARRATOR: A wetsuit fits skin-tight and lets in |
00:19:44:01 | a thin film of water that’s warmed up by body heat. |
00:19:49:00 | In colder temperatures, you need a dry suit. |
00:19:51:19 | It’s totally water-tight and is cut loose |
00:19:54:21 | to make room for insulating layers underneath. |
00:20:19:06 | GIM: Hi Denise. I got you another one. |
00:20:47:15 | GIM: Find a place to rest the suit. |
00:20:53:07 | NARRATOR: Back at the Coast Guard wharf, |
00:20:56:10 | Boots is getting ready to relieve Christian, |
00:20:58:11 | who’s been scraping sea squirts |
00:21:00:16 | for four hours straight. |
00:21:09:19 | DAVE: So those, where we found there was |
00:21:11:15 | like a little bit of algae or something underneath… |
00:21:15:13 | NARRATOR: And Dave has to relay some bad news |
00:21:17:13 | to head office. |
00:21:19:16 | DAVE: …but the rest of it, we have to scrape it. |
00:21:23:20 | So it’s, you know, |
00:21:25:12 | it’s gonna take a while. |
00:21:29:00 | CHRISTIAN: It’s like, four hours of shovelling wet snow |
00:21:31:01 | with no breaks, |
00:21:32:06 | and you can’t drink water in between. |
00:21:33:19 | You get salt water in your mouth, |
00:21:34:19 | so it just makes you more thirsty. |
00:21:37:10 | DAVE: In my estimate, it’s gonna take |
00:21:39:24 | more than just today to get it done. |
00:21:42:03 | Yeah, so we’ll just keep doing it |
00:21:43:21 | and I’ll let you know how we’re making out |
00:21:46:02 | but, we’re not, you know, |
00:21:48:07 | we’re not halfway done yet |
00:21:49:19 | and it’s already after 12:30. |
00:21:52:00 | º MUSIC º |
00:21:58:15 | NARRATOR: Boots joins Ollie in the water. |
00:22:01:04 | There’s still 50 meters of Canadian Coast Guard vessel |
00:22:03:18 | left to scrape clean. |
00:22:11:07 | DAVE: It’s already almost 1:00 |
00:22:13:16 | and we’ve got less than half of it done. |
00:22:17:00 | So probably like, I don’t know, |
00:22:20:00 | a third of it done maybe. |
00:22:25:05 | DAVE: So, Oliver’s been in there |
00:22:26:23 | almost getting up on three hours now, |
00:22:29:17 | so that’s a lot of time just, you know, |
00:22:32:02 | swimming and scraping. Very tiring work. |
00:22:34:15 | You use your whole body. |
00:22:35:22 | So he’ll be pretty exhausted. |
00:22:38:03 | Yeah, so we’re gonna get him out |
00:22:40:02 | and as soon as he gets out and gets clear, |
00:22:42:05 | I’ll get geared up. I can hop in. |
00:22:44:16 | It’s gonna be awesome. |
00:22:54:23 | NARRATOR: But something’s gone wrong. |
00:22:57:02 | After three hours in freezing water |
00:22:59:24 | and patchwork dive gear, |
00:23:02:13 | Ollie’s in deep trouble. |
00:23:06:00 | OLLIE: I’m basically just trying to |
00:23:06:15 | swim back to the boat, |
00:23:07:19 | but both of my legs just lock up, cramped. |
00:23:10:08 | It literally just felt like somebody was taking a hot knive |
00:23:12:11 | and justs shoving it in both my hamstrings. |
00:23:13:24 | And my suit’s so small that I can’t bend over |
00:23:17:15 | and get rid of my cramps or whatever, |
00:23:19:06 | so it’s just an absolute nightmare. |
00:23:21:04 | NARRATOR: The freezing water and leaky drysuit |
00:23:23:15 | have taken a toll. |
00:23:25:15 | OLLIE: So I come over the coms |
00:23:27:05 | like, Dave, I need to get out of the water now. |
00:23:30:00 | NARRATOR: He can’t climb the ladder. |
00:23:31:22 | OLLIE: My fins are not coming off. |
00:23:33:05 | They can’t come off. |
00:23:34:18 | DAVE: Boots is going to come over and take |
00:23:35:22 | your fins off for you, pal. |
00:23:37:11 | OLLIE: Okay. |
00:23:47:07 | DAVE: Did you say you want a rope? |
00:23:48:24 | OLLIE: Yes. |
00:23:55:23 | NARRATOR: Ollie hands off his gear. |
00:23:58:10 | He can barely haul himself onboard. |
00:24:09:10 | DAVE: What is going on here? |
00:24:11:05 | OLLIE: Owwww! |
00:24:14:10 | Fuck! |
00:24:15:20 | [GROANING] |
00:24:19:24 | Oh fuck! |
00:24:24:10 | OLLIE: Honestly, it was fuckin’ pretty excruciating. |
00:24:26:06 | I get worked up sometimes, |
00:24:27:19 | but it’s always like a good mood kind of thing. |
00:24:29:14 | So for me to actually be like that upset |
00:24:31:20 | and that kind of like worked up, |
00:24:33:17 | that doesn’t happen too often. |
00:24:36:20 | I was definitely fired up. |
00:24:43:17 | DAVE: You’re working working hard |
00:24:44:24 | and then you gotta come back and climb a ladder. |
00:24:46:17 | It’s cold and it’s hard on your body so, |
00:24:50:00 | yeah, we got him back on board. |
00:24:52:10 | That’s a good thing. |
00:24:55:10 | OLLIE: When I’m in the water, |
00:24:56:02 | I can’t really move or anything. |
00:24:57:11 | I can’t really get to any of my straps |
00:24:58:24 | so it’s just a fuckin’… |
00:25:00:12 | it’s a battle in there right now, |
00:25:02:07 | until I get my suit back from Gim |
00:25:03:20 | and the boys at Abyss suit me up and get me nice and dry. |
00:25:09:05 | NARRATOR: The bosses at Dominion have sent their niece, LaRae, |
00:25:11:17 | down to see how the job’s going. |
00:25:18:13 | She gets put to work right away. |
00:25:21:10 | CHRISTIAN: All right, LaRae, get over here. |
00:25:22:16 | It takes two for the legs. |
00:25:23:19 | [LAUGHTER] |
00:25:24:23 | LARAE: You gotta lay down. |
00:25:26:07 | CHRISTIAN: LaRae, I need your help. |
00:25:30:16 | NARRATOR: LaRae grew up around divers, |
00:25:32:13 | and she’s an experienced ROV pilot |
00:25:34:18 | who’s spent years at sea, |
00:25:36:05 | so she’s seen it all. |
00:25:42:24 | OLLIE: Thank you. CHRISTIAN: You’re welcome. |
00:25:44:11 | LARAE: How many suits do you have on? |
00:25:45:13 | CHRISTIAN: Too many. |
00:25:47:02 | OLLIE: As many as it takes. |
00:25:48:05 | LARAE: And that’s Boots’? OLLIE: Yeah. |
00:25:53:10 | NARRATOR: Dave has run through all his divers, |
00:25:55:02 | so now it’s his turn to take the icy plunge |
00:25:58:03 | and do battle with the sea squirts. |
00:26:02:08 | But the temperature is dropping, |
00:26:03:18 | they’re burning daylight, |
00:26:05:11 | and the job’s nowhere close to being finished. |
00:26:08:02 | º MUSIC º |
00:26:28:05 | NARRATOR: After three hours of non-stop sea squirt scraping, |
00:26:31:24 | Dave finally surfaces. |
00:26:41:24 | º MUSIC º |
00:26:47:05 | DAVE: Halifax Traffic, Dominion Bearcat. |
00:26:49:01 | We’ve now completed our diving operations at BIO. |
00:26:53:15 | DAVE: We figure we’re about a third of the way done. |
00:26:56:07 | So we’re going to have to |
00:26:58:22 | come back at it again another day. |
00:27:01:11 | NARRATOR: Today’s score card… |
00:27:03:00 | sea squirts one, divers zero. |
00:27:09:20 | GARY: Halifax Traffic, Dominion Bearcat. |
00:27:11:13 | NARRATOR: Sunrise on Halifax Harbour. |
00:27:15:10 | GARY: Yes, good morning. |
00:27:16:03 | We are departing Dartmouth Cove… |
00:27:18:01 | NARRATOR: Day two of the big job scouring the hull |
00:27:20:00 | of the Coast Guard ship, Earl Grey. |
00:27:24:17 | Today, Gary’s leading the operation with divers |
00:27:27:07 | Boots, Guillaume, and Christian. |
00:27:31:17 | The Coast Guard ship is heading out |
00:27:33:00 | on a patrol tomorrow night. |
00:27:35:20 | Scrubbing it clean will make it faster and more efficient, |
00:27:39:00 | and could shave off crucial seconds |
00:27:41:10 | in a rescue mission or a recovery operation. |
00:27:45:24 | Like when the Earl Grey salvaged a sunken oil tanker, |
00:27:48:20 | the Irving Whale. |
00:27:51:16 | Or hauling up airplane wreckage |
00:27:53:03 | from the tragic Swiss Air Flight 111, |
00:27:56:07 | a passenger jet that crashed in 1998, |
00:27:59:11 | killing all 229 people aboard. |
00:28:05:00 | GARY: Generally speaking, |
00:28:06:03 | these Coast Guard vessels, |
00:28:08:00 | they need to be ready to go |
00:28:09:13 | and they need to be able to operate at peak efficiencies. |
00:28:13:20 | So with all these sea squirts on it, it slows down the vessel |
00:28:16:03 | and it also causes vibration as well. |
00:28:19:12 | The vessels are designed to be smooth |
00:28:20:22 | and cut through the water, but with this, |
00:28:22:21 | it’s like trying to drag a shag carpet |
00:28:24:10 | through the water, right? |
00:28:25:17 | It’s going to create a lot of drag. |
00:28:31:01 | NARRATOR: After all the difficulties |
00:28:32:03 | and delays yesterday, |
00:28:33:19 | Gary’s trying to speed things up. |
00:28:36:16 | Nobody wants to come back for a third day |
00:28:39:02 | of scraping sea squirts. |
00:28:42:04 | GARY: Yeah, so we have two divers in the water |
00:28:43:18 | just to try to speed up the process |
00:28:46:03 | because it’s a slow process, |
00:28:47:20 | you just gotta keep scraping. |
00:28:48:24 | So you can have one guy at the bow, |
00:28:50:17 | one guy at the stern and just let them |
00:28:53:11 | keep on keepin’ on. |
00:29:02:00 | GARY: All right Boots, you’ve been in for three hours, |
00:29:03:22 | so you can make your way out. |
00:29:06:02 | º MUSIC º |
00:29:15:22 | NARRATOR: Out with one diver and in with another. |
00:29:18:13 | No time to lose. |
00:29:24:08 | GARY: I’m just giving this scraper a touch up. |
00:29:26:06 | [GRINDER ON METAL] |
00:29:28:18 | Makes life easier if she’s sharp. |
00:29:30:15 | [GRINDER ON METAL] |
00:29:32:20 | It’s just kind of like a razor, right, |
00:29:34:13 | you’re just trying to give the boat a haircut. |
00:29:51:00 | NARRATOR: After many hours of scrub-a-dub-dub, |
00:29:53:17 | it still doesn’t look good. |
00:29:59:05 | GARY: So Christian’s coming up. |
00:30:00:21 | We’re doing what’s called a repetitive dive right now. |
00:30:03:12 | NARRATOR: Seven hours into day two. |
00:30:05:18 | The vessel is still |
00:30:06:19 | covered in a thick carpet of sea squirts. |
00:30:09:00 | Boots is being sent back in for a second go. |
00:30:13:06 | GARY: It’s cold out right now and it kinda sucks |
00:30:15:01 | putting your wet gear back on, but you know, |
00:30:19:00 | the office wants to get this job done, |
00:30:20:23 | so we just gotta keep on |
00:30:23:00 | scraping away until it gets clean. |
00:30:26:10 | This is one of our harder jobs, hull scraping. |
00:30:28:24 | It’s a very physical job. |
00:30:31:15 | Just takes a lot out of ya. |
00:30:33:18 | It’s like digging a hole for four hours straight. |
00:30:37:00 | I don’t think there’s any divers that like it. |
00:30:42:20 | GARY: I think there is still a lot of material on here, |
00:30:45:21 | so I don’t think we’re gonna be able |
00:30:47:00 | to complete this today, unfortunately. |
00:30:55:23 | NARRATOR: Already a day over schedule, |
00:30:57:22 | and the Dominion team will have to come back again |
00:31:00:06 | to finish the job. |
00:31:02:15 | GARY: Are we ready to fly outta here? |
00:31:16:00 | NARRATOR: Ollie’s part of tomorrow’s dive crew, |
00:31:18:17 | but at least he won’t have to do it |
00:31:20:00 | in a borrowed dive suit again. |
00:31:24:20 | OLLIE: Gim, you here? |
00:31:25:21 | GIM: Oh, hello, Ollie. |
00:31:27:09 | OLLIE: Hey, how’s it going? |
00:31:28:08 | I heard you’ve got my suit ready. |
00:31:29:08 | GIM: Glad to see you. |
00:31:30:12 | OLLIE: It’s good to see you again. How’s it going? |
00:31:31:24 | GIM: Well, it was a challenge to fix. |
00:31:33:24 | We found a couple of holes here and there, |
00:31:35:09 | nothing important. |
00:31:36:11 | Your boots are still good. |
00:31:38:08 | Put a brand new zipper, that was the problem. |
00:31:40:11 | We put brand new wrist seals in. |
00:31:42:17 | OLLIE: Perfect. I’ve had this suit |
00:31:43:19 | for two years now, and I’ve put over 500 hours, |
00:31:45:22 | working hours on it. |
00:31:47:22 | So I’ve been underwater 500 hours in this thing, |
00:31:50:11 | and I couldn’t be happier with it. I absolutely love it. |
00:31:52:07 | I view it as an investment, right? |
00:31:53:22 | A suit’s a good thing if you wanna keep diving |
00:31:56:01 | and be happy in the water, and I’ve been diving in a suit |
00:31:58:01 | that hasn’t necessarily been the best right now, |
00:32:00:00 | and I’ve been miserable at work. |
00:32:01:11 | So now that I have a suit that I’m comfortable |
00:32:02:19 | in the water again and I’m happy |
00:32:04:02 | and actually fits me and I can touch my toes, |
00:32:05:21 | I can take my fins off, I can do whatever. |
00:32:07:14 | Like, that’s huge. |
00:32:08:18 | That’s definitely what I’m looking for, so yeah. |
00:32:10:24 | Thank you. GIM: Okay. |
00:32:12:08 | OLLIE: I can’t thank you enough, Gim. |
00:32:12:23 | GIM: Have a good dive. |
00:32:14:01 | OLLIE: You’re the best. Thank you. I will. |
00:32:19:02 | º MUSIC º |
00:32:23:23 | NARRATOR: The next morning, Ollie’s looking forward |
00:32:26:02 | to diving with his newly repaired dive suit, |
00:32:28:23 | and he and Christian start gearing up |
00:32:30:11 | for the day’s work. |
00:32:32:16 | OLLIE: What fuckin’ grinder’s that? |
00:32:34:09 | CHRISTIAN: I don’t know. I like the blade on it. |
00:32:36:13 | OLLIE: Yeah, I like the look of it. |
00:32:38:11 | NARRATOR: They need to sharpen up the scrapers |
00:32:39:23 | before they head out. |
00:32:41:14 | Better to do it here in a heated shop, |
00:32:43:16 | than out there freezing on the boat. |
00:32:49:04 | Ollie’s had a frustrating, painful week, |
00:32:52:02 | but things are about to get a lot worse. |
00:32:56:08 | OLLIE: She’s a little salty. |
00:32:57:23 | [BANG] |
00:32:58:19 | OLLIE: [YELLS IN PAIN] |
00:33:00:10 | CHRISTIAN: Oh shit, dude. |
00:33:01:20 | OLLIE: Ohhhh! |
00:33:02:10 | CHRISTIAN: Oh dude, is that you’re leg? |
00:33:03:15 | OLLIE: Yeah, it is. Can you just get me |
00:33:04:20 | to sit down in the truck. |
00:33:08:00 | CHRISTIAN: We need a first aid kit. |
00:33:14:00 | OLLIE: [MOANING IN PAIN] |
00:33:18:00 | GUILLAUME: That grinder just exploded on Ollie. |
00:33:20:20 | OLLIE: [MOANING IN PAIN] |
00:33:22:10 | I’m in a lot of fuckin’ pain. |
00:33:24:14 | NARRATOR: When the grinder wheel snapped off, |
00:33:26:12 | it sliced open a gash in Ollie’s leg. |
00:33:28:20 | SHAWN: Yeah, I just need some… |
00:33:29:20 | OLLIE: Yeah, it fuckin’ hit my knee. |
00:33:32:16 | It hit my leg and bounced into my knee, yeah. |
00:33:35:02 | CHRISTIAN: That fuckin’ exploded man. |
00:33:38:13 | It didn’t even touch anything, |
00:33:40:02 | it just went fuckin’ boom. |
00:33:41:05 | SHAWN: We’ll take Ollie down. |
00:33:42:00 | We’ll just have a look at it before you go, Ollie. |
00:33:43:15 | OLLIE: Yeah, you can cut it open if you want. |
00:33:44:15 | I don’t really give a fuck, just go at it. |
00:33:48:13 | Actually, let me do it. |
00:33:53:00 | Oh yeah, she got me fuckin’ real good. |
00:33:54:05 | SHAWN: Oh yeah. |
00:33:56:05 | CHRISTIAN: Fuck! |
00:33:57:12 | GUILLAUME: Oh, Jesus! |
00:34:01:09 | NARRATOR: It looks bad. |
00:34:03:08 | SHAWN: I’ll bring up the truck. |
00:34:04:17 | NARRATOR: Christian’s gotta rush Ollie |
00:34:06:00 | to the emergency room. |
00:34:14:17 | The nearest hospital is only three kilometers away, |
00:34:18:05 | but every second is agony for Ollie. |
00:34:20:17 | OLLIE: Ohhh, fuck! I hate that grinder. |
00:34:30:17 | OLLIE: Well it’s good my toes aren’t numb or anything, |
00:34:32:09 | so that’s a fuckin’ good sign. |
00:34:35:15 | NARRATOR: Christian works with Ollie every day. |
00:34:38:13 | They trust each other with their lives on every dive, |
00:34:41:22 | and now Christian helps Ollie each step of the way. |
00:34:54:00 | NARRATOR: Nobody says it, |
00:34:55:02 | but they both know an accident like this |
00:34:57:07 | could end Ollie’s dive career. |
00:35:08:00 | CHRISTIAN: Ollie’s, he’s got a good, |
00:35:09:21 | good chunk of flesh missing there. |
00:35:15:02 | Yeah, I didn’t want to look at it too much. |
00:35:16:10 | I feel sick to my stomach but, |
00:35:20:09 | yeah, he got it right in the knee, |
00:35:21:09 | right in the kneecap. |
00:35:23:06 | So I mean… |
00:35:25:08 | not very good. |
00:35:35:15 | NARRATOR: Back at the shop, |
00:35:36:17 | an accident this serious requires immediate investigation |
00:35:40:01 | by Shawn and Robin. |
00:35:42:00 | ROBIN: We take safety very seriously. |
00:35:43:20 | We feel bad when somebody gets injured. |
00:35:46:10 | We don’t know if it’s our fault |
00:35:48:07 | from something that we did, or you know, |
00:35:50:09 | something that we didn’t do |
00:35:52:02 | that could have prevented it |
00:35:53:16 | or something like that. |
00:35:55:05 | CHRISTIAN: Yeah, it’s still plugged in there. |
00:35:57:08 | ROBIN: Lots of potential for injury at all times, |
00:36:00:02 | for all employees working with |
00:36:01:21 | every piece of equipment that we have. |
00:36:03:19 | So there’s lots of controls that you put in place |
00:36:05:18 | to minimize even the potential for the events. |
00:36:08:16 | That being said, when something does happen, |
00:36:10:10 | you’ve got to just constantly be super reactive with it. |
00:36:16:05 | Following that, action is required |
00:36:17:17 | to eliminate whatever caused the accident. |
00:36:23:09 | NARRATOR: A loose bolt caused the grinder wheel |
00:36:25:02 | to wobble. |
00:36:26:16 | It made contact with the housing |
00:36:28:12 | and exploded. |
00:36:30:00 | Ollie was on the wrong end of that explosion. |
00:36:34:03 | ROBIN: Once the nut gets slightly loose, |
00:36:36:05 | you’ll get movement in a disc. |
00:36:37:18 | And when the disc is spinning up |
00:36:39:06 | a few thousand RPMs, |
00:36:41:07 | it goes out of balance and it looses its integrity |
00:36:43:18 | and it comes apart. |
00:36:48:06 | CHRISTIAN: Ollie’s… yeah. |
00:36:50:10 | Hopefully the x-rays come back good |
00:36:51:11 | and everything’s good on that side. |
00:36:56:00 | In the meantime, I’m just lubing everything up |
00:36:58:07 | and doing what maintenance we can |
00:37:00:16 | to try and prevent that from happening again. |
00:37:04:11 | NARRATOR: But the work has got to go on. |
00:37:06:12 | They’ve gotta finish the job |
00:37:07:22 | of cleaning that Coast Guard ship. |
00:37:10:14 | The Earl Grey is set to ship out today. |
00:37:18:14 | Christian is aboard the dive boat, |
00:37:20:08 | but he’s keeping an eye on his phone |
00:37:21:18 | for any word from Ollie. |
00:37:34:01 | GARY: Diver in the water. |
00:37:36:05 | º MUSIC º |
00:37:44:20 | GARY: This boat’s kinda deceptive |
00:37:46:10 | because it’s got 25 foot straight sides |
00:37:49:02 | and then a huge flat bottom |
00:37:51:06 | and then the bow is really thick as well. |
00:37:53:10 | So, it was a little more than we thought. |
00:37:58:07 | The guys have been hard at ‘er the whole time |
00:38:00:16 | and we’re just finishing up the starboard side |
00:38:03:16 | and should be done in the next couple of hours. |
00:38:05:20 | º MUSIC º |
00:38:10:00 | CHRISTIAN: [EXHALES] |
00:38:14:09 | We’re getting there. Getting close. |
00:38:27:23 | NARRATOR: Still no word from Ollie. |
00:38:29:05 | [GRINDER ON METAL] |
00:38:31:10 | Christian’s worried about him, |
00:38:33:08 | but he’s got to stay focused, |
00:38:34:13 | even as he uses a grinder just like the one |
00:38:36:23 | that sent his buddy to the hospital. |
00:38:48:15 | GARY: All right, so you can see Boots there. |
00:38:50:16 | It looks like we’re down to our final patch. |
00:38:53:24 | All right, so it looks like you guys |
00:38:54:21 | are starting to meet up there, |
00:38:56:23 | so she must be getting close to the end of it. |
00:39:00:08 | GUILLAUME: Oh yeah, bud, I think so. |
00:39:03:07 | GARY: So that must feel good. |
00:39:05:06 | GUILLAUME: Yeah, it does for sure. |
00:39:11:17 | NARRATOR: After three days of scrubbing, |
00:39:13:06 | scraping, and screaming, |
00:39:15:06 | this is the last leg in the battle |
00:39:18:00 | against the sea squirts. |
00:39:22:00 | GARY: [CHUCKLES] |
00:39:23:05 | He took his glove off too, he’s crazy. |
00:39:27:15 | So that’s it, is it? |
00:39:28:20 | GUILLAUME: Yeah. |
00:39:30:13 | GARY: All right, if I could get you guys to |
00:39:31:23 | just do a quick little zigzag, |
00:39:34:05 | just to make sure we didn’t miss anything, |
00:39:36:00 | and then we’ll get you out and do the final inspection. |
00:39:41:11 | NARRATOR: Finally, no more sea squirts, |
00:39:43:14 | algae, or mussels, |
00:39:45:23 | just the cold steel of the Earl Grey’s hull. |
00:39:49:15 | GARY: That’s it. We won. |
00:39:52:15 | Just in time too. |
00:39:54:18 | It was right down to the wire and we got ‘er done. |
00:39:57:14 | The boat was just about to leave |
00:39:58:24 | in like two or three hours. |
00:40:02:09 | They’ll be happy with their speed |
00:40:03:15 | and fuel efficiency improvement. |
00:40:09:07 | GARY: So the job is now a hundred percent complete. |
00:40:11:19 | We finally finished cleaning off the Earl Grey. |
00:40:14:22 | The marine growth there was 100% coverage |
00:40:17:05 | and it wasn’t easy coming off. |
00:40:18:10 | We couldn’t use our automatic machines, |
00:40:20:00 | which speeds up the process by at least four times. |
00:40:23:14 | So unfortunately we just had to do it by hand, |
00:40:25:18 | but sometimes that’s just the cards you’re dealt, |
00:40:27:20 | so you just gotta put your head down |
00:40:29:03 | and keep at it until you get ‘er clean again. |
00:40:31:23 | It’s a hard, miserable job no one enjoys. |
00:40:35:22 | This is one of the worst dirty jobs of diving that we have. |
00:40:42:10 | GARY: Halifax Traffic, Dominion Bearcat. |
00:40:44:20 | HALIFAX TRAFFIC: Dominion Bearcat, Halifax Traffic, |
00:40:47:07 | go ahead. |
00:40:48:11 | GARY: Yes, we have completed diving operations |
00:40:50:19 | off of the Earl Grey located at BIO |
00:40:53:20 | and we are now departing for Dartmouth Cove. |
00:40:57:17 | NARRATOR: With the sea squirts completely eradicated, |
00:41:00:00 | the Earl Grey is ready for its next Arctic patrol. |
00:41:05:03 | Dominion has kept itself in the Coast Guard’s good books. |
00:41:15:10 | NARRATOR: With one job complete, |
00:41:17:13 | Christian immediately starts prepping for the next one, |
00:41:20:19 | and without Ollie, it’s twice as much work. |
00:41:28:20 | CHRISTIAN: No way, dude! |
00:41:29:23 | OLLIE: Dude, what’s up? Ahhh. |
00:41:32:18 | NARRATOR: On his way home, |
00:41:34:01 | Ollie stops by to let everyone know he’s okay. |
00:41:36:20 | CHRISTIAN: No way. |
00:41:38:15 | I’m glad you’re doing all right, man. |
00:41:40:05 | OLLIE: Good to see you, buddy. Yeah. |
00:41:41:05 | CHRISTIAN: What’s the doctor saying? |
00:41:42:13 | OLLIE: I got super fuckin’ lucky apparently. |
00:41:43:23 | The grinding disk fuckin’ hit my leg, |
00:41:46:16 | took a bit of a chunk of my leg with me, |
00:41:48:00 | and then bounced off my bone, |
00:41:49:12 | and then kind of dug into my knee |
00:41:51:00 | and basically just stuck into my kneecap like right there. |
00:41:53:05 | CHRISTIAN: Fuck man. |
00:41:53:22 | OLLIE: Yeah. The fuckin’ crazy thing is |
00:41:55:16 | there’s a whole shitload of tendons right there |
00:41:57:14 | that keep your kneecap in place, |
00:41:58:18 | and the doctor was like, |
00:42:00:01 | he kept shaking his head and scratching his head |
00:42:01:10 | and lookin’ at me. |
00:42:02:18 | It’s like a fuckin’ miracle your kneecap’s still on. |
00:42:04:18 | He basically said if it was any lower or whatever, |
00:42:06:20 | all my tendons would be gone, |
00:42:07:22 | and either be fuckin’ losing my leg, |
00:42:09:06 | or I wouldn’t be able to move my legs or something. |
00:42:11:18 | I’d be like fucked up for life pretty much. |
00:42:13:06 | CHRISTIAN: You’re a machine. |
00:42:14:08 | You handled it like a champ though. |
00:42:16:10 | You’re tough as nails. |
00:42:20:10 | OLLIE: I almost passed out. |
00:42:22:03 | Fuckin’ not gonna lie. |
00:42:23:08 | I was struggling to stay awake there for a minute. |
00:42:25:20 | Honestly worst case scenario, |
00:42:27:00 | I was sitting there in the hospital |
00:42:28:03 | and I kinda thought I was gonna have some |
00:42:30:03 | serious knee problems, or at the very least like, |
00:42:32:15 | I don’t know, maybe lose my knee or something. |
00:42:34:09 | And not knowing, is that your career down the tubes, |
00:42:36:18 | is that your diving career over with, |
00:42:38:12 | and all that jazz is kinda a little nerve-racking. |
00:42:42:15 | OLLIE: You can’t really get any luckier than this, you know? |
00:42:44:05 | CHRISTIAN: Yeah. Another thing too, |
00:42:45:09 | you’re really lucky the blade shot down into your knee |
00:42:47:22 | and not up on your face. |
00:42:48:24 | OLLIE: I know. |
00:42:50:05 | Well let’s be honest here, |
00:42:51:12 | I’m no male model anyway, so like, |
00:42:53:07 | you know what I mean, a grinding disc to the face |
00:42:55:00 | definitely wouldn’t help matters at all. |
00:42:56:18 | CHRISTIAN: You’d have an eye patch, a sailboat. |
00:42:59:01 | OLLIE: Yeah, and then I’d be a fuckin’ full blown pirate. |
00:43:00:20 | CHRISTIAN: Yeah. |
00:43:07:00 | ROBIN: Oliver, he’s a good-spirited fellow. |
00:43:09:13 | He just wanted to stop in and make sure that |
00:43:11:09 | we knew that he was in good spirits. |
00:43:13:20 | So we appreciated that. |
00:43:15:10 | It ended up being real good |
00:43:16:11 | that he had the safety equipment on and things like that. |
00:43:19:10 | All the same, it could have been a helluva lot worse. |
00:43:22:15 | So it’s triggered some re-evaluation |
00:43:24:18 | of some of the procedures using grinders, starting them up, |
00:43:27:05 | testing them, installing wheels and things like that. |
00:43:30:00 | Hopefully with this one here, |
00:43:32:01 | it was a very unlikely event, |
00:43:34:22 | and with a few controls we put in place, |
00:43:36:18 | it’s an event that we won’t see happen ever again. |
00:43:42:12 | NARRATOR: Ollie can come back to work in a few weeks. |
00:43:45:07 | But he still needs to be medically cleared |
00:43:47:11 | to put on his newly repaired dive suit. |
00:43:51:24 | OLLIE: The main issue with my knee right now, |
00:43:53:07 | is gonna be nitrogen bubbles getting caught |
00:43:54:22 | in the scar tissue and getting a bend. |
00:43:56:16 | So I just want to let as much of the scab |
00:43:59:02 | and as much of the scar tissue |
00:44:00:04 | kind of get worked out before I go back to diving. |
00:44:02:05 | So I’m hoping end of this week, |
00:44:04:01 | maybe the beginning of next week I’ll be back in the water. |
00:44:06:15 | Fingers crossed. |
00:44:07:22 | ROBIN: Happy to have him back as soon as he’s healed up |
00:44:10:16 | and ready to come back. |
00:44:20:06 | º THEME MUSIC º |
00:44:26:21 | NARRATOR: The life of a diver on the North Atlantic |
00:44:29:01 | ain’t easy. |
00:44:33:00 | The days are long, |
00:44:34:24 | the water’s cold, |
00:44:36:06 | it’s gruelling physical work. |
00:44:41:16 | But there’s something about |
00:44:43:01 | staring death in the face every day, |
00:44:46:01 | that builds a bond between people. |
00:44:50:00 | They count on each other, |
00:44:51:05 | [BANG] |
00:44:52:09 | and when things go wrong, |
00:44:53:10 | they’ve got each other’s back. |
00:44:55:16 | º THEME MUSIC º |
00:44:59:10 | º THEME MUSIC º |
00:45:02:00 | They’re a tough breed, |
00:45:03:11 | but they take care of each other too. |
00:45:06:07 | º THEME MUSIC º |
00:45:12:10 | And they live to dive another day. |
00:45:15:17 | º THEME MUSIC º |
00:45:20:00 | The Lords of the Ocean. |
00:45:21:22 | º THEME MUSIC º |