Rant: trainee on an oil rig job in the Gulf told me to 'just hold the light' for 9 hours straight
Last month I was on a saturation job off Louisiana, doing anode inspections on a platform leg. This new guy, fresh out of school, got handed to me as my tender. First dive, I'm down at 80 feet checking a weld seam, and he's topside on the comms. Every time I ask for a tool or a different angle, he just says 'hold on' and then goes quiet for 20 minutes. Turns out he was watching Netflix on his phone and not logging my gas readings. I came up after 9 hours with a headache and a logbook full of blanks. I told him, 'You're not holding a light, you're keeping me alive up here.' He just stared at me. Has anyone else dealt with a tender who treats the job like a break? What do you do when they won't take the comms seriously?