Divers ROV & Sharks seen together at Brunei Offshore field. The scene depicted Saturation diving during the 2018 Inspection Repair Maintenance (IRM) period.
We had Saturation Diving Campaign in 2018 and 2019. Saturation Divers breathe HELIOX (Helium & Oxygen mixture) while working and they will have to stay in the chambers for up to 28 days. Breathing this mixture distorts our voices. It is hard to communicate with our family as they always laugh hearing us. However Saturation Dive and Control Supervisors are all very experienced and accustomed to our voices. (Unlike shallow water jobs, where divers just breath compressed Air, -but still subjected to decompression tables and have to do their in water or surface decompression in the Air chamber. More on that in another video😁.)
Before a Saturation dive can commence the Life Support Technicians (LST) have to man the Sat Chambers that house up to 9 Sat divers at one time. The LSTs also have to prepare the Saturation divers’ gear and equipment. In short they take care of our personal well being in the chamber habitat. While the Sat Dive supervisors take care or our diving aspect of the job. From the bell checks to the actual dive itself. They take care of our well being in the water.
Dive Technicians play a pivoting role during all this. The system are always maintained by a specialised crew of Technicians. They also help launch the Bell,the ‘mode of transport’ to the depths. The diving Bell is like a travelling chamber.

In the course of our subsea work we use Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV) Quasar or Cougar to do various tasks. On top of their own job scope the ROV also have to survey the job area or spot the ship beacons and references. In the course of their ‘fly-by’ they would definitely encounter variety of marine life, like eels, snakes and fishes. The most bizarre fish that they encountered were the Angler Fish and ‘ghost shark’ or Chimaeras that were found in the deep Merbah field. Deepest recorded dive there was over 1000m in certain sections. (There’s a link to the Deep Sea ROV video below👇🏼)
Sharks are also commonly found in other fields. We came across Bull sharks in Ampa field but unfortunately not able to capture subsea footage. Top-site crew always spot them around platforms, as seen online. The footage of Ray shark was from Champion 7 complex. This field was also a common sighting for sharks. Finally the last fish clip was that of the whale shark, in Fairley field. Even though whale shark are plankton eating, we are weary as they might snatch on our diving umbilicals and ship reference beacons and tout wires.
Precautionary measures were taken by everybody and all were aware of the danger involved.
We carried on working after all safety measures were in place. The Saturation Team that was in the water at that time of the whale shark swimming-by was actually team 5 , (William) Lim Poh Leng, Charles Skulmoski (Chuck) and John Henry Williams back in 2018.

Thanks to my colleagues for providing video footages.
Special mention to my wife and daughter who lend me their thoughts on editing outcome ❤️RY

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Also other videos from DSV Kreuz Challenger are;

Collaboration with BLNG;

Shallow water jobs, Brunei offshore (feat. BLNG) Kreuz Challenger
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When Covid-19 hit Brunei reactions;

Covid-19 : We carry on diving Brunei offshore (Kreuz Challenger)
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Covid-19 : Before & After Brunei offshore crew change
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Our work during the monsoon campaign;

Monsoon season Kreuz Challenger (Brunei Offshore)
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Work class ROV Historical Deep dive stars Merbah field;

Deep Sea ROV Kreuz Challenger (Brunei Offshore) Brunei Darussalam
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Marine crew working during maintenance period;

Marine crew Kreuz Challenger (Brunei Offshore)
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Divers and Riggers doing chipping and painting on the ITP or Golden gate as it’s called offshore;

Brunei Divers and Riggers painting (part 1)
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Acknowledgment

Music can be purchased from iTunes and AppleMusic :

Ariane
- Single by Else
2013 Maquisards
Released 16 July 2013
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Honorem et Gloriam (Loop Stepwalker X Voltage Remix)
Evangelos
Departure
Released 2017-10-04
Also on album:
ESL Masters Official Soundtrack by Loop Stepwalker by Various Artists

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I took a GoPro 5 with underwater casing while welding and put a magnet under the camera’s mounting. It sticks on the subsea structure. Truly a good action camera very robust and sturdy.
On surface I just had the camera on top of a magnet and it sticks well on our vessel surface.


Thanks for watching.
Take care👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼

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