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Finally tried a different comms setup on a murky river job
I was working a salvage op in the Mississippi near Baton Rouge last week, visibility was maybe 2 feet. My team lead had us switch from our old hardwire comms to a wireless system he'd been testing. The difference was crazy. With the wireless, I could move around the wreck without worrying about a cable snagging on every piece of rebar. We finished the lift in half the time it usually takes. Has anyone else made a switch like that on a low-vis job?
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lucast8117d ago
Yeah, wireless in that soup sounds like a great way to lose your team and start talking to catfish. But honestly, if the cable was the biggest snag risk, I get the switch. Lily_cooper has a point about signal loss, but getting tangled in a wreck seems like the bigger immediate problem. Sometimes you just have to trade one headache for a smaller one to get the job done faster.
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patricia3216d ago
My buddy in commercial diving said their wireless units cut out if the water gets too silty.
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