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“The Life of a Diver” Indonesian-based Expat Story
Author Jim Rigney
Jim Rigney has been a
commercial diver since the age of seventeen. Starting as a harbour diver
in northern Tasmania, Jim has gone on to forge a long and extensive career
within the offshore diving industry, taking him all over the world as an
air diver, saturation bell diver, medical technician and diving
superintendent.
Life of a Diver is a collection
of Jim’s experiences and observations from a lifetime within the commercial
diving industry, both in Australia and abroad. It’s the life of a diver who
worked on the salvage and survey following the 1975 Tasman Bridge disaster; who
made it a personal mission to establish Australia’s first saturation diving
training facility in the 1990s; and who once wanted to teach an ill-behaved
crew member a lesson and inadvertently created an Internet viral hit in the
process.
Jim also shares his
insights from over forty-five years in a tough but rewarding industry, and how
he has navigated the day to day challenges that come with off-shore work — and
what improvements can still be made.
The life of a diver such
as Jim Rigney is one of adventure, danger and the search for stimulating work
and innovation.
Author bio
Rigney was born in Burnie,
Tasmania in 1953. He commenced his career as a commercial diver at the age of
seventeen, following a year working in the underground mines on Tasmania’s west
coast so as to finance his diver training and purchase the necessary
equipment.
Jim progressed from harbor
diving and commenced abalone diving in Tasmania in 1972 but became increasingly
frustrated with the tedium that abalone diving had to offer, compared to the
challenges of the subsea construction industry.
ISBN-10:1-921030-67-4
ISBN-13:978-1-921030-67-3
Non-fiction, diving
RRP $29.95
RRP $29.95
Sid Harta Publishers
Melbourne Australia
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