September 17th 2010
A couple days ago I was summoned by the powers to be. Offshore, to another adventure. The American Triumph is my new crew at the moment. It is quite a change from the Midnight Star. There are good and bad differences, but overall this crew is a lot more friendly. Even though I am a red-hat still, I’m not picked apart from the crew every moment to pick up someone else’s slack. I am here to work and work damn hard too. It is hard to keep a positive mental attitude when someone is barking orders during your make or break moments, like pulling up the sonar solo, with 300 feet of cable out and a modified steel frame on it, instead of an aluminum one.
Basically my point is, I have a great crew right now and would like to stick it out on this boat as long as they let me. So far this job we have been replacing anodes on an Apache platform. Rigging, tending, prepping, running chambers. Hopefully in a few days I may get a dive. But for now I’m very satisfied with my crew and my boat. It was an fairly easy day today, we made two dives on our way back to port during a quick stop. Took about 4 hours and then the rest of the day we were under way to port for a de-mobe and a re-supply, due to bad weather, another tropical storm kicking up high seas. Oh, so we pretty much just got back to port when I got off shift, and I’m sitting in the galley watching T.v. and a mattress comes through the door. I got a new mattress for my bunk today, pretty frick’n awesome!
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