Re-floating 5th day

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Scuba diving equipment for our job is complete and packed neatly in a bag. Our set of Scuba wet suits our 2 sets of fins 2 single scuba tanks and a 2 double tanks and everything.

When we arrived at the port area everybody is busy with their work. We are boarding a fishing vessel that is going to Sulu Sea. It is hard to hop on a boat to another while you were carrying heavy things. You might drop things and your equipment might be damaged if your not careful enough. So as we hop in to a boat to another some of our equipment are carried out by one of the crew of the boat that we are going to board.

We are very much excited as we fix our scuba diving equipment and our beds but the problem is the boat that we are boarding does not have enough room for all the crews of the ship. We fix our sleeping area by installing 2 cradles outside the quarters. Good thing we have bag of clothes to serve as our pillows. It is big and a very old fishing vessel. So we set to sail between 9-10am. My son I was planning our operation after we checked their available equipment .

We checked out their ship for a tour for a better view. We checked out their kitchen and their storage area for the captured fish. Storage area was full of crashed ice ready for preserving those fish. It was full of tubs designed for heavy loads. We also checked their air compressor that was used by previous divers but found out some problems. Air compressors is failing to work so we check out what we can do to fix it. They used sub standard hoses so whenever a diver uses it part of the hose explode so they have to cut the part and have to fix the attachment to the air compressor. It is very old but still working.

Refloating Third

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Since I have years of experience re-floating vessels, he called us hoping that we can still save the ship from Sulu Sea. We never said "we can" immediately since we do not know yet the ships situation. So we set up a meeting.

While we are waiting, we prepared our equipment for the diving job offer. We checked our scuba diving equipment hoping there are only few damages and then fix it as soon as possible because we might be called anytime. First we check our scuba tanks that needs to be filled by compressed air. Currently we have 5 sets of scuba tanks. 2 double scuba tanks and 3 single tanks. We also have 2 full body or 2 one piece wet suits and 2 two-piece wet suits. 3 pairs of boots and 3 fins.

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