Re-floating Operation on 6th day

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We cannot dive and use our scuba tanks since it can only last for 30 mins more or less depending on the depth if we use our single tanks and not more than an hour for our double tank. Our only option is using air compressor since we are going to survey the area not to mention the situation of the sunken ship. So we did our best to fix the air compressor. One of the problem that we encountered was we were in the middle of the sea and we have limited resources but we did fixed it and viola! Air compressor is up and running. Now the problem was the hose that they used from previous divers.

Previous operations was not succesful since most of them died and some of them are still in the hospital as I write this blog. They never saw the hole until we found it. My son hear a very low hissing sound after we turned on the air compressor so we checked out where the sound come from. Divers can still breath using hose only. We cut the hose and tested if it explodes again. After few minutes it did! Same location from the previous hole. actualy it is a crack but the hole was very minute. We cut it again but this time we re-inforced it by putting a 2 inches wide rubber band near the compressor and after few minutes no explosions, so we pressumed it will work better than before.