The shaped charge was a
cool concept.


We used them to blow jacket legs for platform removal. They were circular,
had a hinge, and a clasp. We jetted around the jacket leg below the mud
line, then attatched the charge. They surely cut steel cleanly. And killed
a lof of fish that then were eaten by bigger fish and sharks. Quite a jet
of water coming out topside, too.

In the drilling department, no one was allowed to be on the decks when they
had the perforaters out and were loading them. More than once, they went
off ahead of schedule.

Steve