It's probably one of the
oddest jobs I've ever done, a combination of where it
happened and what I was doing. It was always a help if
it was a little windy I felt as if it was flat calm, you
were aware of being in a vast landscape and rather more
exposed than was entirely comfortable.
The rope that the divers had
placed had a net tied onto it, the guy/s at the other end of
the rope would pull the net through the hole until they saw
the end of it. At this point it would be hanging like a
curtain underneath and against the ice, you'd pull it taught
and then let go at both ends so it would fall slowly to the
sea-bed. It was better for the ice blocks from the hole to
be taken out of the hole as in this case, so that the rope
and/or net didn't get tangled up with them.
Paul Ward -
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