MMC wrote:
I was Navy.

A real diver................ !

Don't know if the commercial schools continued use of the Mk 5
after we put them in mothballs.

The school I went to was using them through out the 1980s Sort of a
"right of passage."
NOdoubt you saw the movie "Men of Honor." I think the Mark V stuff was
loaned from the
DIT school in Seattle. I suspect the civilian schools still use them.

Navy Diving was generally behind the commercial world when it came to gear,
I believe you commercial guys were using the Superlight when we came out
with the Mk 12, which was a real overpriced POS.

Ya, but it sure looked cool. That alone was worth the extrat $1000.

Navy just went to the Superlight in the last few years.
I dove the Superlight for a while as a commercial diver after I got out and
think it's the best thing going.

Personally I really enjoyed some of the old fiberglass air hats for
brownwater stuff.
Finally was able to get my hands on an old MIiler. I enjoyed that till
I went back home to Oregon to lick my wounds.

Who did you work for?
I ended up in Morgan City, LA with an outfit called Ocean Tec. Their
shop was a couple blocks from Oceaneering's in Patterson, LA. Most
the guys from my school went with a company called International
Oilfield Divers. They (IOD) were a real low bid operation. Lots of
horror stories from those guys.
Still Bobing