[OC] And then...
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u/Winjin Comic Crossover 1d ago
I feel like a big tragedy is that we really don't have that sort of deep-dive examination available of all your strength and weaknesses
There was this one fella - William Walker. He did an insane feat: he shored up like half of Winchester Cathedral
He did it for years, in the old school diving gear, basically in pitch black darkness because the water was so full of sediment the lamps did absolutely nothing
"Between 1906 and 1911, working in water up to a depth of six metres (20 feet), he shored up Winchester Cathedral, using more than 25,800 bags of concrete, 114,900 concrete blocks, and 900,000 bricks.
Before his work, the cathedral had been in imminent danger of collapse as it sank slowly into the ground, which consisted of peat. To enable bricklayers to build supporting walls, the groundwater level had to be lowered. Without intervention, the removal of the groundwater would have caused the collapse of the building. So, to give temporary support to the foundation walls, some 235 pits were dug along the southern and eastern sides of the building, each about six metres deep. Walker went down and shored up the walls by putting concrete underneath them. He worked six hours a day—in complete darkness, because the sediment suspended in the water was impenetrable to light."
(Wiki)
The thing is, this man seems like he was a nature-born diver. He found his Main Calling and fulfilled it to the brim. And he started at 30 when he was already a Senior Diver at a prestigious diving company... And by then he was already such an outstanding diver that he was teaching Royal Marines to dive - including future King George V.
Sometimes people find their One True Calling. Maybe some don't have it, but it's also possible that your One True Calling is "darkwater cathedral shoring"