10 Ton Lift Bag broaches the surface

One of 8 x 10 ton lift bags used to try and roll a 250 ton ship recently sank as an artificial reef in the Gulf of Siam. These were the biggest lift bags I had ever seen, and definitely could not be rolled up and put in your BCD pocket! Constructed like a parachute with 20 x 1 ton ropes covering the double-lined lift canopy coming down to 4 x 10 ton hawsers connecting to the wreck via more knots and splicing than a boy scouts jamboree. Great Fun - Diver B2

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[scubaengineering]

The compressor was a 3 cylinder (mostly) oil vapour pump manufacturered in the Far East sometime in the late 18th century, mounted on a gilded ivory box driven by a rusty lump of hot noisey steel which I suspect hid a diesel engine inside. The air could be chewed...

[lutenant3]

HAHA.,kl.at just a huge air pocket.,what was the bag from then.,

[scubaengineering]

@lutenant3 The bag was made from a couple of market stall plastic tarpaulin sheets, lashed together with 100's of meters of rope. They were quite an inticate design and must have taken hundreds of hours of work to put together.

[cressisub100]

What poor compressor filled that large underwater fart ?

Greetings Ed