The underwater welder is a canadian graphic novel ghost story published by top shelf productions written and drawn by jeff lemire the main character jack joseph is an offshore oil rig worker responsible for scuba diving and repairing the rig. Jeff won the joe shuster award for outstanding canadian comic book cartoonist in 2008 for essex county and again in 2013 for the underwater welder and sweet tooth hes been a nominee for multiple eisner awards a harvery award and the ignatz award descender and the underwater welder have both been optioned for major motion pictures. Entdecke alle informationen uber the underwater welder inhaltsangabe der bohrinsel arbeiter jack joseph erwartet ein kind doch fuhlt sich angesichts der bevorstehenden vaterschaft unsicher. About a man in the dangerous profession of underwater welding who has a supernatural encounter at the bottom of the sea. Underwater welding is a unique welding process where a professional diver who is also a welder goes into the water and applies the same tactics used in a traditional ground welding method over submerged structures and workpieces the application of this process is quite large because most of the docking and pipeline industries have to rely upon underwater welders to get the job done topics