A Highland Fling

**david44** · 28-07-2024, 01:47 AM

Was it a loan shark or part of a public school tho?

**DrWilly** · 28-07-2024, 09:15 AM

Good pics. Were you in a submersible?

**dirk diggler** · 28-07-2024, 11:53 AM

I was on the rig controlling the ROV, armed with a spinning brush, cleaning marine growth off a fairly depleted anode.

Anyway, that got abandoned real quick when I saw the shark.

I’ll upload it to YouTube when I get off the rig. Limited daily data allowance.

**Edmond** · 28-07-2024, 11:54 AM

Originally Posted by DrWilly

Were you in a submersible?

**david44** · 28-07-2024, 01:25 PM

Originally Posted by dirk diggler

armed with a spinning brush

Is that like a bathroom spurtle but bigger, I assue the detritus goes back in the Ocean as organic? Look forward to more pix once you are a landlubber once more. With groh banned and I assue smoking are drugs issue offshore like the navy or are their jobsworth mandatory tests?

**MarilynMonroe** · 29-07-2024, 01:07 AM

Originally Posted by dirk diggler

In the North Fucking Sea.

And you can bet your ass I got it on film.

Screenshots:

Nice shark, pics. What did you use for those shots? Great white I take it?
I wouldn't go in the water if I were you anytime soon. lol

**dirk diggler** · 29-07-2024, 01:12 AM

^^ Aye it’s a bit like a toilet brush on a motor. Just blasts all the sea life into the abyss.

I don’t have much photos here as can’t bring my phone outside to the cabin. I did forget one time though.

I’ve never been drug or alcohol tested for offshore jobs but it’s been pretty much guaranteed everywhere else.

**dirk diggler** · 29-07-2024, 01:24 AM

Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe

Nice shark, pics. What did you use for those shots? Great white I take it?
I wouldn't go in the water if I were you anytime soon. lol

I shot the video from a Saab Seaeye Falcon Inspection Class ROV (Remote Operated Vehicle)

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Unlike the picture, our one has a black and white camera and a colour HD camera, which I got the footage from then took screenshots with my phone.

We believe it is a Porbeagle shark which is often mistaken for a young great white. And vise-versa.

**Edmond** · 29-07-2024, 01:40 AM

It's like David Attenborough PS5 X-Treme.

Fooker gets to play real life video games for a living.

**dirk diggler** · 29-07-2024, 02:10 AM

There is an ROV ‘game’ on STEAM. I think it’s free just now as it’s not complete.

Now everyone can get involved.

Except me, cos I have a Mac.

Found it:

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**BLD** · 29-07-2024, 04:00 PM

[QUOTE=dirk diggler

I’ve never been drug or alcohol tested for offshore jobs but it’s been pretty much guaranteed everywhere else.[/QUOTE. it used to piss me off that a zero alcohol result was required just to get out of the camp. beer was available.and as long as I limited the consumption to about 12 stubbys of beerlao had a scran and was in the fartsack by about 8.
00pm the crazy thing was they were oblivious to the Laos all being on the yaba. Go figure. Anyhoo my boss was a good guy and liked a drink himself so. We had machines around the camp to test ourselves and if over I would just call him with the result and expected zero result. As long as we didn't do it to often he was cool with that

**BLD** · 29-07-2024, 04:05 PM

Originally Posted by dirk diggler

I shot the video from a Saab Seaeye Falcon Inspection Class ROV (Remote Operated Vehicle)

Unlike the picture, our one has a black and white camera and a colour HD camera, which I got the footage from then took screenshots with my phone.

We believe it is a Porbeagle shark which is often mistaken for a young great white. And vise-versa.

I think Joe's got one of them saabs but a convertible