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.

Re-floating Vessel 4th

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The supervisor of this operation set up a meeting in a nearby restaurant. We negotiate for the diving job and agreed on one thing. We have to survey first and approve the reflaoting if it is still possible.

Preparing for the equipment

We bought "O rings" for the scuba tanks and 2 new face mask since me and my son are the only divers that will survey in Sulu Sea and we lost our face mask because someone borrowed it and never returned back. Since we have a new one provided by the company we considered those as scuba diving gifts. It is part of our job anyways. We also request for gloves since our gloves are all worn out. We brought our hoses for alternate supply since according to them they are using air compressor for their divers. They only used air compressor for the entire operation until we came. After completing our scuba diving equipments for the job, we set to sail morning on Monday from the port area. We have a 2 sets of check list for everything that we brought from this operation from our custom knife, our life line, etc...