Graving Dock

This dry dock is located in Esquimalt on Vancouver Island, I used to work for an equipment rental outfit as a mechanic on several occasions my duties called upon me to make repairs to a welder or air compressor at the dock.

I dreaded those calls involving equipment lowered into the dry dock, the only access available to me were using the stairs and god forbid you forgot a much needed tool and had to make more than one trip on those stairs leading to the bottom.

After a ship has been placed in the dry dock divers have to place all those blocks under the ship to keep it upright after all the water has been pumped out, a dangerous job that I'm glad that I had no part of. Setting block way above my pay scale.

I spent two years in the mid 80's just down the road at Royal Roads. One of the nicest places I've been.