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A salvage supervisor told me I was pulling too hard on lift bags and it was costing the company money
After a wreck removal in the Gulf last spring, he showed me my inflation numbers were 30% over spec and I was damaging soft patches. Has anyone else had to unlearn bad habits from dive school?
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joseph_adams6623d ago
Man that's just how it goes with anything taught in a rush. Same deal with guys who learn to weld in a quick course then wonder why their beads crack on real steel.
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tyler623d ago
Did you go to one of those tech-heavy schools that teaches everything at max capacity? I had to retrain myself after my first real salvage job too - slow and steady wins the race on bag inflation.
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blakem1323d ago
Yeah exactly, that was my problem too @tyler6. Those schools cram everything at 100% speed like you're gonna be doing top dollar salvage runs every day, but real world bag inflation is a completely different game. I had to force myself to slow down and actually watch the bag fill rate instead of just trying to maximize every second. The guys who rush always end up with busted bags or uneven seams that fail on you later. Now I tell new people to start at half speed and just pay attention to how the material flows, you can speed up once you see the pattern.
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