The world beneath Alaskan`s waters also has it`s Pioneers. Owen Boyle is one.  Eugene Cleary was another one.  I had the good fortune to work with them both diving together on these same platform when I worked a few seasons as a deckhand on a commercial diving boat, that Gene Cleary built for Cook Inlet and Alaskan waters. 
I`m still in awe of them both, and the dedication to safety they displayed preparing for each dive. 
 Loading them up, with all that heavy old hard-hat gear with it`s weighted boots was a ritual of safety.  Then down into the deep roiling darkness they would go, hanging, drifting slowly down to the bottom work site, with their fate all tied to the tidal rush, a piece of rubber hose, a slim black comm wire, and the "chuff-chuff-chuff" of a smoky engine pumping air down to them. Sometimes diving alone, sometimes the two of them working together...  
If Owen Boyle wrote a book about diving in Alaska I will certainly be looking for a copy.  Thank you for the story.