FCE Interview 29

by Exambot |Published August 3, 2019

1. Ray

o  lost his job as office manager

o  didn’t enjoy working in an office

o  studied law when he finished school

2. Ray’s parents

o  knew that Ray didn’t have enough experience to do the course

o  thought that Ray wouldn’t be able to complete the course

o  believed that Ray didn’t have the strength to do the course

3. Most of the work that Ray does

o  is boring but safe

o  keep s him underwater for over two hours

o  is not in very deep water

4. According to Ray, accidents happen when divers

o  dive down to the sea bed

o  work on shipwrecks at the bottom of the sea

o  forget to think about possible dangers

5. At the moment, Ray

o  is repairing a ship in America

o  is working on a ship that sank off the coast of America

o  is looking for a ship that sank a hundred and fifty years ago
6. The SS Union

o  sank during the American Civil War

o  might have been carrying a valuable cargo

o  was travelling to the Northern States when she sank

7. According to Ray, if a shipwreck breaks up, a diver

o  might be unable to return to the surface

o  might suffer from air embolism

o  might have to dive too deep

8. My name’s Ray Garrett, and I’m a professional deep-sea diver. Let me explain
how I came to be working in this profession. When I left school, I got a job in a
lawyer’s office, and by the time I was 2, I’d worked my way up to the position
of office manager. I was good at my job, and it never occurred to me to leave or
do something else.

9. When our company was bought out and the local office closed. I started
thinking about other jobs. I’d always been interested in scuba diving, as a
hobby, and just about that time, I saw an advert in a magazine. A company was
looking for people to train as divers, so I put my name down for the training.
My mother wasn’t at all keen; in fact, she and my dad didn’t believe I’d last out
the three months’ training! Scuba diving doesn’t take great physical strength or
unusual exercise tolerance. All it takes is the desire, plus some basic classroom
and in-water training.

10.A qualified diver can safely remain underwater for anywhere from a few
minutes to over two hours. Most of the work I do now isn’t very dangerous – or
very exciting! My job involves working on ships that have to be repaired. so
we’re not even very deep underwater.

11.Working underwater can be dangerous, especially if we do need to go right

down to the sea bed, perhaps to do some work on a shipwreck. People have
accidents when they stop thinking about the dangers facing them in their job.
and I never do that: I always remember that diving can be dangerous. I’m
aware of the potential hazards, and I never exceed the time limit of my dives,
which depends on various parameters like depth, rate of air consumption, and
the profile of any dives I have done in the previous six to twelve hours.

12.At the moment we’re doing quite an exciting job: looking for buried treasure!
Well,I suppose it’s not exactly like that. We’re working off the coast of
America. examining a ship on the sea bed that sank almost a hundred and fifty
years ago. The ship is the SS Union, and she was travelling from the Northern
States of America to the South just after the American Civil War. For a long
time, nobody knew where the shipwreck was, but a team from the University of
New Orleans found it last year, using some new sonar equipment. The ship is
supposed to have a lot of gold on board – although we haven’t actually found
any yet.
13. Working on a shipwreck sounds absolutely fascinating, but it can be extremely
dangerous at the same time. Potential hazards of diving at such depth include
de-compression sickness,air embolism, hypothermia and physical exhaustion.
On top of that. the ship can break up at any time, which means that you run the
risk of being trapped. A couple of days ago I had a lucky escape when part of
the shipwreck fell, and that’s the sort of thing that can really cause problems for
divers. Still, it’s a great profession.