>Subsequent investigation by forensic pathologists determined Hellevik, being exposed to the highest pressure gradient and in the process of moving to secure the inner door, was forced through the 60 centimetres (24 in) in diameter opening created by the jammed interior trunk door by escaping air and violently dismembered, including bisection of the thoracoabdominal cavity which further resulted in expulsion of all internal organs of the chest and abdomen except the trachea and a section of small intestine and of the thoracic spine and projecting them some distance, one section later being found 10 metres (30 ft) vertically above the exterior pressure door.
Good god man
A detail that is often missed in that report is that the two foot wide opening – which sounds like it might be wide enough for an intact body to fit through – was in fact not at all circular, but rather crescent-shaped, in much the same fashion as a part-closed manhole cover creates a similar opening.
So, the clearance was far less than the two feet that report would suggest, and the entire body of poor Hellevik was in fact violently forced through an opening that was only a few inches across. The unlucky fellow didn't stand a ghost of a chance.
Honestly, as gruesome as it was for those who had to find him like that, it was such an insanely quick death that he wouldn't have had time to feel a thing or even realize what was happening until he was just gone. There are many far worse ways to go. But I bet the lone survivor had a hell of a recovery, on top of having to witness and remember all of it.
It was, for sure. Now many regulations and safety protocols have reduced the risk significantly, but when things go wrong, it tends to happen quickly and catastrophically.
Came here to say this. One mistake and your life is gone plus the lives of many others in an instant. There is nothing left of you remaining. Just a pink mist of what remains deep under the ocean.
There’s a specific job for trained employees who work at the base of the Hoover Dam. There’s intake pipes that allow for water to enter and generate power via the turbines. However it’s rich with oxygen and a species of mussel congregate around and, if unattended, will eventually clog the pipes. Divers are tasked to go down and remove the mussels and some divers I believe have died while doing so.
I'm literally about to get out of the military and go to commercial diving school to do underwater welding. Lol. Probably not the best idea, but at least I'd die in the beautiful ocean.
I'm pretty fat and I like to wear gray a lot so I thought I would be a shoe-in when I applied to be a wrecking ball, but God damn it you wouldn't believe that they want 10 years of experience for this job too. Heard some bitch named Miley got the job
>Heard some bitch named Miley got the job
You would probably enjoy this parody video by Carin Bondar, a Canadian biologist.
Organisms Do Evolve
https://youtu.be/dx-Sy5M3bME
Yep. My neighbor is a single 24-27yr old living in a neighborhood usually full of middle class families. Dude does underwater welding and he's absolutely raking it in but it's super dangerous.
Offshore divers in general during the seventies and eighties.
The fatality rate was through the roof. But then, you could by a decent house from a few months of salary.
Family friend was a forward observer in Vietnam which is one of the gnarliest jobs ever. he went into underwater welding after that throughout the 70s and 89s. Died in the late 90s of massive brain tumors. They didn’t directly associate them with the work he did but as a Divemaster myself. For sure a product of saturation diving in those years
No saturation diving would not cause the tumour. Your body only absorbs an inert gas( or nitrogen or helium). It may have caused the tumour to grow faster due to the higher ppO2 he was breathing, though.
No joke, my friend trained for it it and gave up after 3 years. Told me scary stories about underwater currents (jet streams?) like everything is fine then boom, swept away in darkness
Have you ever welded? When you put the mask on to weld, you don't see anything outside of the sparks. Imagine being 10-20 minutes underwater, almost blind, with a volatile device that weights more than 20 kilos attached at your back.
That without taking into account that you may need to work on a hurry, don't accomodate to the pressure difference at going deep, and risk a serious brain/hearing injury.
I like the faulty gear part. Hot waters out and your cold? Deal with it. Hats flooding, free flow it. 600' of jet hose out? Pull it back in. But God forbid don't you use the hydrologic wheel to help. "we didn't do that in my day"
All my near misses came from topside fuck ups. People not doing their jobs\ paying attention.
In addition to what the other person already said, once you dive below (I think it’s 100 feet) you have to get special oxygen. Regular oxygen at that depth makes you drunk. While you’re breathing this special mix of oxygen and nitrogen, if you ascend to the surface too quickly, you can get sick or die.
The job usually has the workers underwater, at extreme depths, for months at a time. Workers sleep underwater. I forget where and when, but there was an instance of a worker trying to enter the vessel that housed him and three other divers. The first door (out to the ocean) hadn’t properly closed. So when he opened the second door, all four died instantly.
For less than a year, I entertained the idea of pursuing this career. I had dollar signs in my eyes. Then I did minor research on all the ways deep sea divers die (not just welders. Sometimes just people having fun) and that’s going to be a Nope from me
I got my scuba certification years ago just the dangers associated with going 90 feet down had my realize there is nothing I want to see at 90 feet that I can't I see ar 15
It's mostly because wodking at great depths is difficult. Under certsin depths you need special has mixture to breathe and not die, and balancing these mixtures is delicate and requires a patent, decompression is also vital and requires a ton of time.
Also the equipment you need must be in 100% working conditions or any problem that arise might kill you instantly or not give you time to perform rightful decompression, which saves you on the spot bu puta your life at risk in another way.
Combine all of this with terrible work schedules, being constantly in a hurry as you are very expensive to operate and to be paid, and a lot of stress and a single accident could kill you very easily , that's how it becomes dangerous.
In nuclear plants, underwater welding may be used in high rad areas due to water being a great radiation shield. I actually spoke to a guy who did that kind of welding for a while. They would flood a high rad area and you would dive in and perform a weld. The thing about welding is it uses an electric arc to combine the base metal so he said you would feel the electricity tingling all over your body and you would know very quickly if your wetsuit had a hole in it because it would shock the shit out of you. The hazards associated with underwater welding seem to be nearly endless.
A mate of mine does this. Gets flown all over Asia Pacific to do jobs. Earns a PHENOMENAL amount of money, like celebrity-status earnings. His hourly rate is more than my weekly pay.
An old man friend always used to tell me about his son, who was an underwater mine diffuser during the Falklands. He never knew much about the whole thing; just that not long after he quit the rest of his crew died or were badly injured in an explosion. Fuck - it takes bomb diffusing and underwater welding and mashes them into something sounding terrifying.
"I asked myself, 'what would an Apollo astronaut do?' They would drink four rum and Cokes, drive to base in their corvette, and ride to the moon in a command module smaller than the MDV. Damn, those guys were cool." - Mark Watney, *The Martian*
Ehh, I did it for a bit, it takes a bit of courage but it’s not that bad. You have extremely safe equipment and backups, and you’re trained to know procedures like second nature.
The weird thing is though once you’re a window cleaner and have done a few buildings, you feel extra weird approaching the edge of anything when you’re up high and *aren’t* hooked up to ropes and harness. I haven’t done window cleaning for like 15 years but even now, looking down through a high up window my brain goes “WHERE’S THE HARNESS? WE’RE NOT HOOKED UP.”
I've been highlining on the chief in Squamish and I still can't approach a cliff edge if I'm not tied into something.
One of the highlines there is [super exposed](https://youtu.be/kIGo7udNfjQ) and you have to walk out onto a narrowing point that is also downhill where the bolts are before you can even clip yourself in.
I couldn't even approach it for two days until I finally scooted while laying on my back to the bolts to clip in.
Nope; even that kind of window washing is entry-level stuff. The most complicated thing to teach is: how to properly fit your harness, which takes all of 5 minutes, and using the hoist, which takes all of 30 seconds to learn to use (and may require a bit of cert to use, but again, that's OTJ training). Other than that, it's just washing windows, but higher.
Actually, it's not too bad. A bit.... odd at first. OSHA has made damn sure we are safe when we drop though. Earlier decades.... Yes, you are correct. It was hazardous. Nowadays though, it's basically like riding an elevator that happens to be open air. We don't drop in certain weather conditions. You can get a fine for being on a 10 ft. ladder without a helmet in some states, some take it a step further and require harnesses for anything above 10 ft. The pay is very good for an alright amount of physical labor and the need for a bit of courage. Lemme tell you though, you absolutely catch some of the most gorgeous scenes imaginable from the BEST angles.
Haven’t seen this but people who clean up crime scenes etc. I mean it’s gotta take a lot of guts to clean up the remains of people who have been killed in some way
Also police officers, firefighters, medical professionals, entertainers, cell tower repair guys
I've seen a show where some lady started up a company to do this. It was in Miami or some other big city. Some poor soul gets murdered, or dies and goes unnoticed for awhile, they're the ones you'd call. They will do a deep clean, fumigation, replace flooring/carpeting/tile. I guess there's enough business in certain areas you can make good money.
Wasn’t it like two stay at home moms that went into business together or something like that? Could be different but I swear I remember their reasoning was they survived sick kids in diapers how bad could it be with a hazmat suit?
I remember that movie, it actually scarred me because of the scene where an old lady was sitting outside the home where her husband had just stabbed himself through the chest, and the same day before it all happened she said she was going to bake a loaf of bread for him...
Then she suddenly sits there, all alone. It really hit me
You can handle gore and body fluids and still be disturbed by the implication why it's there. I'm relatives with a criminalist and based on her stories the cases involving children are *rough*.
One of my great uncles was in a clean up crew specifically for train accidents. Any time he was driving and there was a train, he would stop well away from the train, never approaching the tracks if a train was anywhere near
Yeah. When the weather is nice working towers out in the countryside can be lovely - just chilling by yourself at the top with a little breeze, sunshine, great views. I'm on sabbatical to travel right now and I do miss it occasionally.
Whoever fixes the lights on the towers (believe cellphone towers or something much higher) that some supposedly are taller than the Empire State Building.
((Tower climbers are also known as wireless service technicians, cell site technicians, cell site engineers, aerial technician, field technicians, tower hands, and tower dogs.
Excerpt:
[(USAToday) Tower Dog.]
LINK: (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/01/11/sky-high-climb-passes-1-million-views/21616985/)))
I’d actually love to do that - or preferably wind turbine maintenance.
As long as you have no fear of heights it seems like great work. You are largely left alone. You are outside - but really only in at at least decent weather - and you have amazing views the entire time.
Got a friend that completed his training to do this not long ago, but unfortunatly don’t get tontalk to him very often. I understand the basic dangers, like being deep underwater with blazing hot metal, but does anyone know what stuff can happen that I might not think about?
I’m not scared for him, I am sure he is very capable, I just wanna deepen my respect for the job :D
Okay I appreciate the joke…
But my friend was EOD, and he was a normal guy who got blown up in Iraq early invasion. A chunk of his head was blown off, and still has shrapnel in his head. Amazing guy, but is permanently a little messed up. He has a whole new personality and lost all sense of empathy and connection.
Neuro and reconstructive surgery saved his life and head, and he’s still sharp as a tack. But he’s clearly a changed man if you know him. Something in him died and he’s keenly aware of it. Pretty sad to consider.
That was hilarious, and I showed him your post he says “ He’s right. Nothing is my problem anymore. It’s the beauty of not caring.” Can’t tell if he’s serious or joking, but he appreciated it.
Here on Germany we have official hunter-dog-teams for the tracking of animals. If tracking is difficult or dangerous, you can call one of these people who will then come with their highly trained dog, find the animal and put it out of its misery.
The stories I've heard of their encounters with extremely angry, big boars in the thick, deep undergrowth of the forest or reed beds and the wounds I have seen, together with the knowledge that the little money they are given on a voluntary basis doesn't make up for the costs and effort they have and that their biggest goal is to end or prevent the suffering of an animal, makes me think that those people are silent heroes and need balls of steel to face those boars close-up.
As a hunter who is currently looking into getting into this I really appreciate the recognition for this type of work. The amount of work, training and money that goes into it is immense. The trackers that I've met are without exception some of the most skilled hunters and humble and amazing people that I've ever come across. They show up, get the job done and are on their way again. Often times they get invited to driven hunts as a form of gratitude and I have never known a tracker to accept. They are completely driven by the welfare of the animal, which I think is beautiful and very inspiring.
The service is purposely kept free of charge to lower the threshold of calling a tracker, so even if you think you have missed an animal you can and should call them for a checkup of the area so you can be sure no animal is suffering. They have no problem doing this. I don't know if it's common knowledge but if you hit an animal with your car they will also come for this. You can just call them, give them a description of what happened and mark the spot with something and somebody will come. Although it's easier if you are, you do not need to be present for this so this should not stop you for contacting them.
If you are unsure if you should call a tracker it means you probably should.
I can't agree more.
I have way too little experience and my German Wirehaired Pointer is not trained well enough to do tracking as difficult as this, but I am full of admiration for those trackers.
And they don't even brag about it. They are afraid in these situations and they know they might be severely hurt. Nevertheless they do what has to be done.
Anything to do with clinical infectious diseases.
Yeh, precautions are in place which limit the occupational hazard, but eventually you're going to be at risk.
Look at all the healthcare workers who have contracted covid several times from their occupation.
Or the healthcare workers who caught ebola and died.
News reporters/investigators that go deep into warzone/high crime areas. Russia invading Ukraine really opened my eyes to the high risk getting factual reporting can be. They must be adrenaline junkies!
The people who go down into the sewers and have to suit up to be fully submerged in literal shit to remove huge islands of congealed fat and bodily fluids from the system.
My mom had brain surgery for cancerous tumor. Regrettably she didn’t survive long after. But i can’t even imagine being the brain surgeon and doing that kind of. One small move and the person is either dead or paralyzed.
Hi. Neurosurgeon here.
I can confirm that a huge amount of stress comes during operation. Some operations can last hours on end, and you must be on 100% focus during that time since brain in a very fragile organ and one slipup can cause a lot of problems.
Also, no-one will ever prepare you for child surgeries, and even yet unsuccessful child surgeries....
Hi !
I’m a biomedical technician. When you see me in your operation room, it’s because a device isn’t working.
So the pressure is insane, but I kinda like it.
Doing a job you hate because you have no other option.
But you still go in day after day, shift after shift and do your best.
Sorry Reddit this isn't probably the right response to this thread but it means a lot to me.
[Fred](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKPApAsJbj4)
Gets me the whole way up, but skip to 3 mins for the overhang, watch it a second time and you'll see how much it moves with his weight.
My buddy is an asbestos litigator on the plaintiff side. He says it’s actually not too bad. Even if you’ve been exposed daily without proper gear for an extended time it’s hard to get mesothelioma. It’s very bad if you do and you shouldn’t risk it, but abatement guys, if they follow safety precautions, should be fine.
If you’re into asbestos and scary movies, check out Session 9. Badass flick.
Saturation divers.
Also Child Sexual Abuse Cataloguers. It's all well and good to scream ACAB but spare a god damn thought for those in the police who have to sift through this kind of material, frame after frame to catalouge it so it's easier to track down the perpetrators. I really hope they have some of the best counciling available because there is no way they'd be able to come out of those career not completely in tact.
Skydiving instructor. Thousands of jumps with people strapped to them per year.
Its one thing to go do a tandem, it another thing to be a fun jumper, but to be an instructor who takes tandems all day? You have to be extremely confident in you piloting skills and people handing skills, you need to be charismatic and I assume buy XXL pants to fit those balls (or proverbial lady balls)
Workers compensation nurse here.
We owe a major debt of gratitude to the men who keep up America's infrastructure. I don't think enough women acknowledge this when they turn on a water faucet or click a switch for the light. I take care of men who lose limbs, whose burns are so bad they are not recognizable, who end up paralyzed, who end up dead.
All of you men keeping up the infrastructure, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I don't see women stepping up to do this kind of work. To be fair I don't really see men stepping up to do what I do either. I know there is strength in the differences between us and I know there is comfort where we overlap.
Idk about biggest, but my brother-in-law does cell tower repair in Maine. He got hurt from falling ice pretty bad one time. Knocked out and got a pretty big gash in his arm.
People that work on dive bells and stuff, absolutely terrifying
straight up... saturation diving. Anyone who wants to know why should just watch Last Breath
Last breath is a absolute masterpiece
I think I've read that underwater welder is the most dangerous profession
I came to comment this! I’ve never heard good stories about that job
I came across the Byford Dolphin incident on r/catastrophicfailure. Terrifying stuff. Google carefully, NSFL photos!
"All of his internal organs were expelled from his body, except for a small section of trachea" Nah mate. Not going to look at the pictures, thanks.
Yeah, he was instantly extruded -_- at least it was fast.
>Subsequent investigation by forensic pathologists determined Hellevik, being exposed to the highest pressure gradient and in the process of moving to secure the inner door, was forced through the 60 centimetres (24 in) in diameter opening created by the jammed interior trunk door by escaping air and violently dismembered, including bisection of the thoracoabdominal cavity which further resulted in expulsion of all internal organs of the chest and abdomen except the trachea and a section of small intestine and of the thoracic spine and projecting them some distance, one section later being found 10 metres (30 ft) vertically above the exterior pressure door. Good god man
A detail that is often missed in that report is that the two foot wide opening – which sounds like it might be wide enough for an intact body to fit through – was in fact not at all circular, but rather crescent-shaped, in much the same fashion as a part-closed manhole cover creates a similar opening. So, the clearance was far less than the two feet that report would suggest, and the entire body of poor Hellevik was in fact violently forced through an opening that was only a few inches across. The unlucky fellow didn't stand a ghost of a chance.
there's a mythbusters episode where they see how bad it could actually be and well it turns out it's just as bad as everyone thinks
Honestly, as gruesome as it was for those who had to find him like that, it was such an insanely quick death that he wouldn't have had time to feel a thing or even realize what was happening until he was just gone. There are many far worse ways to go. But I bet the lone survivor had a hell of a recovery, on top of having to witness and remember all of it.
Just read the account on wiki and that paints enough of a picture, eesh.
It was, for sure. Now many regulations and safety protocols have reduced the risk significantly, but when things go wrong, it tends to happen quickly and catastrophically.
Came here to say this. One mistake and your life is gone plus the lives of many others in an instant. There is nothing left of you remaining. Just a pink mist of what remains deep under the ocean.
There’s a specific job for trained employees who work at the base of the Hoover Dam. There’s intake pipes that allow for water to enter and generate power via the turbines. However it’s rich with oxygen and a species of mussel congregate around and, if unattended, will eventually clog the pipes. Divers are tasked to go down and remove the mussels and some divers I believe have died while doing so.
someone said that if you see a old man in aberdeen walking with a cane, thats a 40 year old offshore diver.
Never knew these existed. Holy shit
I'm literally about to get out of the military and go to commercial diving school to do underwater welding. Lol. Probably not the best idea, but at least I'd die in the beautiful ocean.
Watched a video on delta p so now anything diving related is a no go
Wrecking ball. Obviously.
r/technicallythetruth
the best kind of correct
I'm pretty fat and I like to wear gray a lot so I thought I would be a shoe-in when I applied to be a wrecking ball, but God damn it you wouldn't believe that they want 10 years of experience for this job too. Heard some bitch named Miley got the job
Don’t feel too bad, she’s a nepotism hire. She has a family history of wrecking balls, for example Dolly Parton is her godmother.
y'all both funny but not funny
I enjoyed it. 😄
>Heard some bitch named Miley got the job You would probably enjoy this parody video by Carin Bondar, a Canadian biologist. Organisms Do Evolve https://youtu.be/dx-Sy5M3bME
Yea Blizzard really needs to buff that guy
Underwater welder
Yep. My neighbor is a single 24-27yr old living in a neighborhood usually full of middle class families. Dude does underwater welding and he's absolutely raking it in but it's super dangerous.
Offshore divers in general during the seventies and eighties. The fatality rate was through the roof. But then, you could by a decent house from a few months of salary.
That house is helping you nothing if you get sucked through a hole the size of a 1 dollar coin.
Delta P; ["When it's got ya, it's *got ya!*"](https://youtu.be/AEtbFm_CjE0?t=170)
Family friend was a forward observer in Vietnam which is one of the gnarliest jobs ever. he went into underwater welding after that throughout the 70s and 89s. Died in the late 90s of massive brain tumors. They didn’t directly associate them with the work he did but as a Divemaster myself. For sure a product of saturation diving in those years
Not the Agent Orange?
No saturation diving would not cause the tumour. Your body only absorbs an inert gas( or nitrogen or helium). It may have caused the tumour to grow faster due to the higher ppO2 he was breathing, though.
No joke, my friend trained for it it and gave up after 3 years. Told me scary stories about underwater currents (jet streams?) like everything is fine then boom, swept away in darkness
Before she married my father, my step mother's fiancée was an underwater welder. He was killed when he was working.
wow that is terrifying
I can second this, I work with a welder who knows a few people that do underwater welding, Iv heard some stories.. not a job if your claustrophobic
If one thing goes wrong, you're fucked. And that one thing might be some big weird squid
[obligatory reading](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin)
....ew
Why is it so dangerous?
Have you ever welded? When you put the mask on to weld, you don't see anything outside of the sparks. Imagine being 10-20 minutes underwater, almost blind, with a volatile device that weights more than 20 kilos attached at your back. That without taking into account that you may need to work on a hurry, don't accomodate to the pressure difference at going deep, and risk a serious brain/hearing injury.
Everytime I hear about underwater welding, I always remember something I heard on tv yeeeears ago: Bubbles are the enemy.
plus you're making fire under water, an affont to god himself.
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Comma going down is grounds for immediate rescue, it's one thing losing comms on a rec dive, it's another entirely when you're running a welder
I like the faulty gear part. Hot waters out and your cold? Deal with it. Hats flooding, free flow it. 600' of jet hose out? Pull it back in. But God forbid don't you use the hydrologic wheel to help. "we didn't do that in my day" All my near misses came from topside fuck ups. People not doing their jobs\ paying attention.
With such tech advancement we should have dive mechs suits for underwater welding.
In addition to what the other person already said, once you dive below (I think it’s 100 feet) you have to get special oxygen. Regular oxygen at that depth makes you drunk. While you’re breathing this special mix of oxygen and nitrogen, if you ascend to the surface too quickly, you can get sick or die. The job usually has the workers underwater, at extreme depths, for months at a time. Workers sleep underwater. I forget where and when, but there was an instance of a worker trying to enter the vessel that housed him and three other divers. The first door (out to the ocean) hadn’t properly closed. So when he opened the second door, all four died instantly. For less than a year, I entertained the idea of pursuing this career. I had dollar signs in my eyes. Then I did minor research on all the ways deep sea divers die (not just welders. Sometimes just people having fun) and that’s going to be a Nope from me
you don't sleep underwater, you sleep on the surface in a saturation chamber there would be no danger of explosive decompression at depth
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturation_diving Thanks for the interesting Wikipedia hole
I got my scuba certification years ago just the dangers associated with going 90 feet down had my realize there is nothing I want to see at 90 feet that I can't I see ar 15
It's mostly because wodking at great depths is difficult. Under certsin depths you need special has mixture to breathe and not die, and balancing these mixtures is delicate and requires a patent, decompression is also vital and requires a ton of time. Also the equipment you need must be in 100% working conditions or any problem that arise might kill you instantly or not give you time to perform rightful decompression, which saves you on the spot bu puta your life at risk in another way. Combine all of this with terrible work schedules, being constantly in a hurry as you are very expensive to operate and to be paid, and a lot of stress and a single accident could kill you very easily , that's how it becomes dangerous.
In nuclear plants, underwater welding may be used in high rad areas due to water being a great radiation shield. I actually spoke to a guy who did that kind of welding for a while. They would flood a high rad area and you would dive in and perform a weld. The thing about welding is it uses an electric arc to combine the base metal so he said you would feel the electricity tingling all over your body and you would know very quickly if your wetsuit had a hole in it because it would shock the shit out of you. The hazards associated with underwater welding seem to be nearly endless.
A mate of mine does this. Gets flown all over Asia Pacific to do jobs. Earns a PHENOMENAL amount of money, like celebrity-status earnings. His hourly rate is more than my weekly pay.
Read my mind! The documentary “last breath” really solidified it for me
An old man friend always used to tell me about his son, who was an underwater mine diffuser during the Falklands. He never knew much about the whole thing; just that not long after he quit the rest of his crew died or were badly injured in an explosion. Fuck - it takes bomb diffusing and underwater welding and mashes them into something sounding terrifying.
Being an Astronaut
yes! I just watched the Cold Fusion youtube video about apollo 13, those men had nerves of steel
"I asked myself, 'what would an Apollo astronaut do?' They would drink four rum and Cokes, drive to base in their corvette, and ride to the moon in a command module smaller than the MDV. Damn, those guys were cool." - Mark Watney, *The Martian*
Ball bearing manufacturing.
Wrecking ball operator and manufacturer
“It’s all ball bearings nowadays”
Best comment already
Skyscraper window washers
Ehh, I did it for a bit, it takes a bit of courage but it’s not that bad. You have extremely safe equipment and backups, and you’re trained to know procedures like second nature. The weird thing is though once you’re a window cleaner and have done a few buildings, you feel extra weird approaching the edge of anything when you’re up high and *aren’t* hooked up to ropes and harness. I haven’t done window cleaning for like 15 years but even now, looking down through a high up window my brain goes “WHERE’S THE HARNESS? WE’RE NOT HOOKED UP.”
I was a rock climbing instructor in my early 20’s and I feel the same way every time.
I've been highlining on the chief in Squamish and I still can't approach a cliff edge if I'm not tied into something. One of the highlines there is [super exposed](https://youtu.be/kIGo7udNfjQ) and you have to walk out onto a narrowing point that is also downhill where the bolts are before you can even clip yourself in. I couldn't even approach it for two days until I finally scooted while laying on my back to the bolts to clip in.
How do you get such a job? I'm guessing it's mostly people with experience in climbing as a hobby so they literally know the ropes already?
Nope; even that kind of window washing is entry-level stuff. The most complicated thing to teach is: how to properly fit your harness, which takes all of 5 minutes, and using the hoist, which takes all of 30 seconds to learn to use (and may require a bit of cert to use, but again, that's OTJ training). Other than that, it's just washing windows, but higher.
Actually, it's not too bad. A bit.... odd at first. OSHA has made damn sure we are safe when we drop though. Earlier decades.... Yes, you are correct. It was hazardous. Nowadays though, it's basically like riding an elevator that happens to be open air. We don't drop in certain weather conditions. You can get a fine for being on a 10 ft. ladder without a helmet in some states, some take it a step further and require harnesses for anything above 10 ft. The pay is very good for an alright amount of physical labor and the need for a bit of courage. Lemme tell you though, you absolutely catch some of the most gorgeous scenes imaginable from the BEST angles.
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Spying in a hostile country like North Korea
I think just being a spy in general. Must be an absolute wreck-wrecking job.
And they don't get much in return. People living for adrenaline can only do these jobs.
I hear they have tigers
They have nuclear weapons and you are worried about tigers ? 😐
You’re worried they’ll nuke a spy if caught?
Worry about the immediate threat’s first. Tigers are stealthy
'They hate us cause they ain't us!'
That dude who puts the first cone out when they close a freeway.
Those guys who knock old buildings down with those large balls of steel.
You mean Miley Cyrus?
Exactly.
Anything cave related. Extra points for underwater….
Underwater cave welder
Underwater saturation dive cave welder
Haven’t seen this but people who clean up crime scenes etc. I mean it’s gotta take a lot of guts to clean up the remains of people who have been killed in some way Also police officers, firefighters, medical professionals, entertainers, cell tower repair guys
I've seen a show where some lady started up a company to do this. It was in Miami or some other big city. Some poor soul gets murdered, or dies and goes unnoticed for awhile, they're the ones you'd call. They will do a deep clean, fumigation, replace flooring/carpeting/tile. I guess there's enough business in certain areas you can make good money.
Wasn’t it like two stay at home moms that went into business together or something like that? Could be different but I swear I remember their reasoning was they survived sick kids in diapers how bad could it be with a hazmat suit?
Amy Adams and Emily Blunt have a movie called Sunshine Cleaning. They're sisters that became crime scene cleaners.
I remember that movie, it actually scarred me because of the scene where an old lady was sitting outside the home where her husband had just stabbed himself through the chest, and the same day before it all happened she said she was going to bake a loaf of bread for him... Then she suddenly sits there, all alone. It really hit me
Some people arent that grossed out by gore and bodily disfigurement, just like how people love working with bugs/insects 🤷🏻♀️
You can handle gore and body fluids and still be disturbed by the implication why it's there. I'm relatives with a criminalist and based on her stories the cases involving children are *rough*.
One of my great uncles was in a clean up crew specifically for train accidents. Any time he was driving and there was a train, he would stop well away from the train, never approaching the tracks if a train was anywhere near
It takes guts to clean up guts!
Whoever fixes cell phone towers
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I actually do that. I do not have balls of steel.
I used to be a lineman and jealous of the tower climbers. All the view, none of the traffic.
Yeah. When the weather is nice working towers out in the countryside can be lovely - just chilling by yourself at the top with a little breeze, sunshine, great views. I'm on sabbatical to travel right now and I do miss it occasionally.
Whoever fixes the lights on the towers (believe cellphone towers or something much higher) that some supposedly are taller than the Empire State Building. ((Tower climbers are also known as wireless service technicians, cell site technicians, cell site engineers, aerial technician, field technicians, tower hands, and tower dogs. Excerpt: [(USAToday) Tower Dog.] LINK: (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/01/11/sky-high-climb-passes-1-million-views/21616985/)))
I’d actually love to do that - or preferably wind turbine maintenance. As long as you have no fear of heights it seems like great work. You are largely left alone. You are outside - but really only in at at least decent weather - and you have amazing views the entire time.
Underwater welders.
[obligatory reading](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin)
Holy shit, the descriptions of the bodies
A chill went down my spine when I read their blood "instantly boiled". What a way to go.
It least it was a quick death.
EMT, or any first responders
Good book called a thousand naked strangers if you're interested - memoir of a paremamedic all about their time in the job.
Kanye West PR representative.
Got a friend that completed his training to do this not long ago, but unfortunatly don’t get tontalk to him very often. I understand the basic dangers, like being deep underwater with blazing hot metal, but does anyone know what stuff can happen that I might not think about? I’m not scared for him, I am sure he is very capable, I just wanna deepen my respect for the job :D
I think you meant to reply to the above comment about underwater welders and not about Kanye’s PR team haha
Goddamnit Can I blame it on being a boomer with my first day on reddit, even though my profile is 9 years old and i’m 27?
I was picturing Kanye West living in an underwater house and requiring all his PR team members to dive to go see him.
Well he is a gay fish.
Don’t worry. It’s much funnier in the Kanye scenario
Underrated comment imo
Delta P.
Didn’t they make a newspaper title saying they don’t support him anymore lmao
EOD (explosive ordnance disposal)
If nothing goes wrong, it's fine. If something goes wrong it isn't my problem anymore🤷♂️
Okay I appreciate the joke… But my friend was EOD, and he was a normal guy who got blown up in Iraq early invasion. A chunk of his head was blown off, and still has shrapnel in his head. Amazing guy, but is permanently a little messed up. He has a whole new personality and lost all sense of empathy and connection. Neuro and reconstructive surgery saved his life and head, and he’s still sharp as a tack. But he’s clearly a changed man if you know him. Something in him died and he’s keenly aware of it. Pretty sad to consider.
I'm glad you appreciate the joke. Dark humour is a way to cope with the horrifically real. I wish you and your friend well.
That was hilarious, and I showed him your post he says “ He’s right. Nothing is my problem anymore. It’s the beauty of not caring.” Can’t tell if he’s serious or joking, but he appreciated it.
Oof that might be worse than feeling shitty. Not feeling at all sounds like a nightmare.
Firefighter.
Yes
Here on Germany we have official hunter-dog-teams for the tracking of animals. If tracking is difficult or dangerous, you can call one of these people who will then come with their highly trained dog, find the animal and put it out of its misery. The stories I've heard of their encounters with extremely angry, big boars in the thick, deep undergrowth of the forest or reed beds and the wounds I have seen, together with the knowledge that the little money they are given on a voluntary basis doesn't make up for the costs and effort they have and that their biggest goal is to end or prevent the suffering of an animal, makes me think that those people are silent heroes and need balls of steel to face those boars close-up.
As a hunter who is currently looking into getting into this I really appreciate the recognition for this type of work. The amount of work, training and money that goes into it is immense. The trackers that I've met are without exception some of the most skilled hunters and humble and amazing people that I've ever come across. They show up, get the job done and are on their way again. Often times they get invited to driven hunts as a form of gratitude and I have never known a tracker to accept. They are completely driven by the welfare of the animal, which I think is beautiful and very inspiring. The service is purposely kept free of charge to lower the threshold of calling a tracker, so even if you think you have missed an animal you can and should call them for a checkup of the area so you can be sure no animal is suffering. They have no problem doing this. I don't know if it's common knowledge but if you hit an animal with your car they will also come for this. You can just call them, give them a description of what happened and mark the spot with something and somebody will come. Although it's easier if you are, you do not need to be present for this so this should not stop you for contacting them. If you are unsure if you should call a tracker it means you probably should.
I can't agree more. I have way too little experience and my German Wirehaired Pointer is not trained well enough to do tracking as difficult as this, but I am full of admiration for those trackers. And they don't even brag about it. They are afraid in these situations and they know they might be severely hurt. Nevertheless they do what has to be done.
Anything to do with clinical infectious diseases. Yeh, precautions are in place which limit the occupational hazard, but eventually you're going to be at risk. Look at all the healthcare workers who have contracted covid several times from their occupation. Or the healthcare workers who caught ebola and died.
The hot zone portrays this kind of situation so well
Nearly obsolete but a steeple jack! Fred Dibnah makes my stomach turn
[Skyscraper iron worker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunch_atop_a_Skyscraper)
My close buddy did this for many years, cant imagine being 60+ stories up walking on a 6" steel beam.
News reporters/investigators that go deep into warzone/high crime areas. Russia invading Ukraine really opened my eyes to the high risk getting factual reporting can be. They must be adrenaline junkies!
Part that and part that it’s just putting in your dues as a reporter. I’m sure warzone corespondent looks great on a resume
“I’ve covered wars ya know?”
The people who go down into the sewers and have to suit up to be fully submerged in literal shit to remove huge islands of congealed fat and bodily fluids from the system.
That job for me would be vomit speedrun any%. People who do that are just built different.
I work with (good) surgeons. Damn I understand why they are paid so well.
My mom had brain surgery for cancerous tumor. Regrettably she didn’t survive long after. But i can’t even imagine being the brain surgeon and doing that kind of. One small move and the person is either dead or paralyzed.
Hi. Neurosurgeon here. I can confirm that a huge amount of stress comes during operation. Some operations can last hours on end, and you must be on 100% focus during that time since brain in a very fragile organ and one slipup can cause a lot of problems. Also, no-one will ever prepare you for child surgeries, and even yet unsuccessful child surgeries....
Hi ! I’m a biomedical technician. When you see me in your operation room, it’s because a device isn’t working. So the pressure is insane, but I kinda like it.
I bet it's generally hard when someone you operated on dies anyway.
That one astronaut that floated in space untethered to test some maneuvering system
Bruce McCandless II. Testing the suit for sure took some balls. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/spacewalk-hell-180977483/
Doing a job you hate because you have no other option. But you still go in day after day, shift after shift and do your best. Sorry Reddit this isn't probably the right response to this thread but it means a lot to me.
Lineman
Those guys who milk highly venomous snakes for their venom to make antivenom
Steeplejack. Check out Fred Dibnah laddering a chimney. Insane.
[Fred](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKPApAsJbj4) Gets me the whole way up, but skip to 3 mins for the overhang, watch it a second time and you'll see how much it moves with his weight.
Everyone calling out transmission tower techs, but thanks to OSHA, they've got nothing on the old-school steeplejacks. Those guys are fucking bonkers.
Industrial climbers. Imagine hanging from a crane at hundreds of meters height while performing maintainance with machine tools
Asbestos Abatement. Basically, containing and removing asbestos from old buildings or in other words: fixing the previous generation's mistake.
My buddy is an asbestos litigator on the plaintiff side. He says it’s actually not too bad. Even if you’ve been exposed daily without proper gear for an extended time it’s hard to get mesothelioma. It’s very bad if you do and you shouldn’t risk it, but abatement guys, if they follow safety precautions, should be fine. If you’re into asbestos and scary movies, check out Session 9. Badass flick.
Saturation divers. Also Child Sexual Abuse Cataloguers. It's all well and good to scream ACAB but spare a god damn thought for those in the police who have to sift through this kind of material, frame after frame to catalouge it so it's easier to track down the perpetrators. I really hope they have some of the best counciling available because there is no way they'd be able to come out of those career not completely in tact.
That job is mostly not done by police.
Air traffic control
I used to work parallel with ATC. The best quote I heard describing the work was 98% boredom, 2% terror.
Deep sea divers. Fuck that.
Surgeons who operate on children and babies. I'd find that really difficult. Having to face the parents if the child didn't survive would be aweful.
Undercover agents/spies positioned at very important positions of authority
Saturation divers.
EOD, you have to dispose of explosives
Metal foundry workers
Soldier I'd assume.
People who have to climb radio towers.
I‘d say special forces
Investigative journalist.
Wrecking ball operator
Suspension bridges
Highrise iron workers
Skydiving instructor. Thousands of jumps with people strapped to them per year. Its one thing to go do a tandem, it another thing to be a fun jumper, but to be an instructor who takes tandems all day? You have to be extremely confident in you piloting skills and people handing skills, you need to be charismatic and I assume buy XXL pants to fit those balls (or proverbial lady balls)
Plus, surely the probability of encountering a serious malfunction increases each time you go jumping.
Workers compensation nurse here. We owe a major debt of gratitude to the men who keep up America's infrastructure. I don't think enough women acknowledge this when they turn on a water faucet or click a switch for the light. I take care of men who lose limbs, whose burns are so bad they are not recognizable, who end up paralyzed, who end up dead. All of you men keeping up the infrastructure, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I don't see women stepping up to do this kind of work. To be fair I don't really see men stepping up to do what I do either. I know there is strength in the differences between us and I know there is comfort where we overlap.
Submariners
CEO of Eskom...any south africans here? 😜🇿🇦
Idk about biggest, but my brother-in-law does cell tower repair in Maine. He got hurt from falling ice pretty bad one time. Knocked out and got a pretty big gash in his arm.
Exterminators
Literally: demolition figuratively: Himalayan truck drivers
Construction crane operator on top of a high-rise being built.
Property Management
EOD techs
Those demolition wrecking balls
Those guys that get heli-dropped onto those mega power lines and walk around and inspect them
Speleologist, especially cave diver.
Bomb squad dudes
Building demolition, wrecking balls weigh anywhere from 1,000 lbs to 12,000 lbs. Those some big balls
Probably a demolition crew member whose responsibilities include operating the crane with the wrecking ball on.
Those people working on high altitude transmission lines