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CEMBER 21,1 AGE
.Pain RLinson
limon min's Christmas. spent
tfy ilm Fitzgerald ' rig inspection crew,
While Most of us will 'spend "It's chancy business, and we'Ve
Christmas day gathered around, the lost some divers, says /ohn Hart, 26,
Yuletide tree in a *arm house, secure who heads one 'of the siX-inarl barges
in mind and full of ttArkeY, stuffing from which Paul works. )3ut like most
and other irnbibings, Paul Robinson of his colleagues, Paul has no plans to
change Ins job,
The men, working off the floating
Platform, called "Superbarge" 347,
are laying what will be the world's
longest underwater natural gas
pipelihe. When completed, the line
willl tap into a rich gas field in the
Gulf of Siam and carry gas onshore
of Clinton will be down on the ocean
floor , bis life supported by a long,
thin tube.
Many young people would love to
travel and see the world, bu,t few
would dare to do it the way Paul, 22,
Paul, son of John and Margaret
fie inspects for damage to the
concrete, coating and, to the vital joints
rat .each 12-rnetre length of pipe. It is
the final.- check befbfe the line is
buried into the' seabed where, it must
last fora!) estimated 30 to,40 years.
Diving is only one aspect of sub-
marine Pipeline work. Above, is the
—massive barge which pulls itseitalong
with the aid of a dozen 27 -tonne an-
chors and giant winches while
spewing out an average of 2.5.
kilometres of pipe every 24 hours.
Everything about the opeeration is
Robinson of Huron Street, is currently through 425 kilometres (265 miles) of king-siZed.
in the Gulf of Siam, in the South China • submarine piPe, "Superbarge" is one of the biggest
Sea, near Thailand, working as a deep - The project— involving several in the world: an aircraft carrier -like
sea diver on an oil barge, layrng a gas major foreign companies and the hulk 200 metres long by 45 metres
pipeline. Thai government, will eventually wide and rising to the equivalent of
Although highly dangerous, life is • supply energy -short Thailand with an six storeys.
never dull, and the rewards are ad- estimated 20 to 25 per cent , of its Its 400 -man crew, captained by
venture, good money, and a chance to needs. Briton john Barnden, includes
yisil_those_tgratic_places_in_the—vthrld--liaw_.,about—go—kneinetres—eff---Arner-icansr-Thais,—Canadians, New --
where their skills are in growing-, 4 -Thailand's southeastern shore, Paul Zealanders, and Filipinos. They work
12 -hour shifts, seven days a week,
consume about 5,000 kilograms of
steak and ribs (available at every
meal) over two weeks, along with
mounds of ice cream and pies.
Since some elect to Spend months on
the barge without a shore break,
recreation facilities are provided — a
gymnasium, video room stocked with
1,000 tapes and ping-pong.
The six divers on 347 and another
half-dozen aboard a smaller, trailing
barge are mostly single, in their mid-
20s and have an action -oriented
hackgrouThri
William Book was a former U.S.
demand.
Paul headed his class of 55 men
from Canada, U.S.A., Britain and
New Zealand, at a 10 -month course•at
the Commercial Diving Centre in
Wilmington, California in October,n
1979, and was one of seven sub-
sequently hired there to assemble and
test a new Bell Saturation System for
the Centre. He then spent eight ft
months in the Gulf of Mexico on an oil
dives into the milky green"sea with a
coil of lines trailing him, supplying
him with compressed air and a vital
two-way communication•link vyith the
surface.
Like the other divers, Paul ingpects
the pipeline fed out from the back of
the barge over a huge truss, checking
to make sure the line rides squarely,
then heads downward along the
pipeline
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3mney. • • • •
Dressed in -his pressurized suit, Paul Robinson of Clintun descends into thd
ocean in a recent practice dive. He is now working in the South China Sea
laying a gas pipeline.
Holiday recipes
you can't resist
PEANUT BRITTLE
3 cups white sugar. L
11/2 cups roasted peanuts
Dash salt
Melt sugar in frying pan over low heat, stirring
until sugar is dissolved:Remove from heat. Add
nuts and salt stirring' quickly enough to mix.
Pour onto greased.pan in very thin sheet. Cool,
then break into pieces.
By Barbara Desjardins
Goderich
CHOCOLATE FUDGE
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup milk
1 tablespoon butter
1/2 cup nuts
2 tablespoons cocoa
1 teaspoon vanilla
Mix the sugar and cocoa. Add milk and boil.
From Unit 6,
Trinity U.C.W.,
Listowel
OLD-FASHIONED SPONGE CANDY
1 cup sugar
1 cup dark corn syrup
1 tbsp. white vinegar
1 tbsp. baking soda.
Combine sukar, corn'syrup and vinegar in a
large saucepan. Cook, stirring constantly, until
sugar-d-issulvepa for one minute o
allow the steamto wash down the sugar crystals
that cling to side of pan or wipe down the
crystals with a damp cloth.
Uncover pan; insert candy thermometer. Cook
without stirring until candy thermometer
reaches 300 degrees (hard crack° stage when
'syrup dropped in very cold water separates into
11, hard and brittle threads).
Remove from heat, stir in baking Soda. Pour
into ,a buttered 9 x 9 x 2 inch pan (not necessary
to, spread as mixture bubbles and will spread
itself). Cool in pan on wire rack. Break cooled
sponge into pieces. Store 2-3 weeks in a tightly
covered container with foil or plastic wrap
between layers.
By Helga Dodds,
Clinton
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their teachers are. They know it's a
cold, indifferent world out there.
Thus, with either a good allowance
from parents, or a weekend job that
pPoduces plenty of spending money,
school is a place to stay warm, be with
friends, and not have to get out of the _
nest.
Those are the older students. The
younger ones, again in,,tnany, many
cases, have not the slightest idea of
good manners, co-operation, of self-
diScipline. They are boisterous,
unruly, mouthy, foul -tongued and
generally obstreperous.
They have almost no knowledge of
the Bible, of basic human virtues, of
ordinary courtesy, but base
everything on the two dimensional
teaching of television.
Now, let's have a look at the parents
of these kids. In many cases, 'both are
working, of necessity or materialism.
They are too tired, or haven't time, to
give their children some idea of
decency, fair pray, good manners,
thrift, or any of the other virtues.
Broken families, single -parent
families are common. Kids are left to
get,their own breakfast or fall back
into bed if it's nasty out. They ply
truant. They get behind, blame their
teachers, feel frustrated and
res entful:
From this comes vandalism,
retreat into dope or booze and all the
rest of the sad story. Some mess, eh?
It's enough to kill off many a good
teacher in his -her prime.
Thank goodness I'm an excellent
teacher, and not one of my students is
like those described. Otherwise, you
wouldn't see my tail for dust.
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navy ,,diVer in VietnaM and once
owned a bar in Thailand. Steve White
served in the Canadian navy. Robin
learned to dive with the elite
Special Action Services unit ef the
Austrian military and had a stint in
the Rhodesian field police, Hartowent
through commercial diving school in
the :United States and bas logged ,
hundreds of hours, underwater in f
Southeast Asia.
Bill, at- 40, is somevvhat of an ex-
ception since most divers "retire"
earlier -- either because they 4001
ke'ep physically fit enough or because
some, as he says, "get a little,yater-
shy after a few close calls."
The tofighestpart of the job is called
"saturation diving."
This is what Hart's team faces as
the barges head further out into the
Gulf of Siam where the maximum
For up to a month, the divers will
.live in the sea or in a hermetically
sealed world, where pressures on,
their bodies and the gases they inhale
will be finely regulated. The divers
will work out of a diving bell which,
when raised to the surface, is
clamped onto a 12 -metre long
chamber on the barge's deck.
The chamber is equipped with beds,
a shower and special mechanism to
deliver hot food and pipe in music.
Exit from this world before the body
goes through the proper decom-
pression would result in • almost
certain death.
Middleton mark advent
By Blanche Deeves
Rev. William Bennett
lit the fourth advent
candle and blessed the
creche at the Sunday
morning service of St.
James Anglican Church.
Blanche Deeves read
the lesson and the of-
fering was received by
Don Middleton and
Edward Deeves'. The
flowers on the altar were
placed by Mrs. Fred
Middleton in loving
memory of the late Mr.
Fred Middleton.
Don Middetqn lit the
furnace of Saturaay
morning and Audrey
Middleton, John Deeves
and Ed and Blanche
Deeves decorated the
'Church for the Christmas
season.
The Christmas Eve
serviCe will take place at
7:30 pm with Comrnunitm
and carols. This 'Sunday,
December 28 the Service
of Lessons and Carols will
be held at 11:15 am and
Lisa and Billy Storey will
offer praise in song.
News and notes
Our apologies go to
Rev. Bennett, John
Semple and John Deeves.
They received their 35
year pins, not their 25ths
at the recent Clinton
Legion awards
ceremony.
Ed and Blanche Deeves
travelled to Chatham last
Wednesday to join in a
Christmas with their
daughter and family, the
Coopers.
At this time, I wobld
like to wish everyone a
Very Merry Christmas.
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friends and patrons for your confidence,
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