tripdogs

Updated: May 18, 2025

Bad seamanship might not only endanger the security of the work but his own life as well, a diver not being as quick as a crab or blackfish in getting from under a seven-ton stone dropped from tripdogs at the signal to "lower away." Captain Joe's inspection of the Susie Ann's skipper was anything but satisfactory, judging from the way he opened his battery of protest.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women