Scuba Diving Job in Sulu

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Scuba diving job should be fun. But what if your risking your life on the line? Is it worth it?

Current depth of the ship is 210 feet under and not only that bouys are already installed but the ship havent moved a bit. If it wasn't installed properly, those bouys will serve as torpedoes rushing up to your ship. It's like going against a submarine waiting to attack with one wrong move. We brought our Nikonos V to take pictures.We took pictures of the bouys and the sunken ship but NIKONOS V can only go down as deep as 165 feet and if you go beyond that you're at risk in breaking your camera. Bouys that were installed is 120 feet deep on top of it plus 10 feet down. We took some pictures of buoys and some school of fish for fun. Previous team used steel cable to attached bouys to the ships bow and stern. Bouys that looked like drums with different sizes were rusting even the cables.

I dove deeper and gone to the ship. I took pictures but there is a problem...

Scuba Diving Trip

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On the seventh day of our scuba diving trip to Sulu for refloating a sunken ship, the sky is dark but it's not raining. As you expect its a bit wavy but not too much but enough to confuse the sonar. We have to repeat the scanning 3 times before we got the exact position. Our captain anchored down and we inspect the current underneath. Water is darker than we expected. We thought it's going to be clear since it is a province and only few ships passed by within the area.

We dropped our bathymetry or sounders; our pre-measured rope tied with a heavy u-clamps. First is to measure depth of the sunken ship. Second purpose of our sounder is for our decompression guide as we ascend. We drop it thrice to make sure since the current is strong. On the third time we put heavier metals to stabilize descension. Some commercial divers or professional divers use computerized bathymetry but since we dont have budget for other gadget.