fad
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Sept 14, 2017 11:14:44 GMT
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samta22
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Sept 14, 2017 11:34:54 GMT
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Fascinating stuff, although not related to surveying, my old man was involved in rigs during his time at Shell, he used to relish the helicopter ditching training and being fired off in those life rafts - not What was the outcome of scanning the wrecks, just so locations/vessels were identifiable?
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ToolsnTrack
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Sept 14, 2017 11:43:49 GMT
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I do miss the offshore life sometimes. Certainly met some characters. Must be eerie uncovering a wreck and wondering the circumstances that brought it to its location. Wouldn't have been a fun story
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fad
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Sept 14, 2017 11:46:44 GMT
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BOSIET training - I HATED doing htat. And hte STCW95 (especially the firefighting). That project was interesting actually. It was looking for, and marking, a wreck of a coal freighter called the Sven Jarl, she sailed out of Warkworth headed for Norway during WW1 and was sunk by U-Boat 19, by a Captain nicknamed "The German Pirate" - called so because he began sinking vessels without warning, from a submerged position. This was something not done before, and was considered the end of chivalry with sea warfare (previously, the U-Boat would surface, give warning to allow crew to abandon ship, and then open fire). So, the boat that sank her (second from right, you can see the Captain there on deck): and this is the Sven Jarl: It was just an "interest" project funded by one of the big oil companies, nothing but curiosity really. Used an AUV to find her. This is an extract that mentions the sinking in the book "The German Pirate" by Ajax, published by the George H Doran Company. I have the full book in PDF if anyone is interested. You can see in the SONAR scans that the stern has been blown clean off, you can still pick out the prop shafts there. I've overlaid the ship's architects drawings on the SONAR image to show what goes where.
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autojumbled
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Sept 14, 2017 13:18:06 GMT
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My wife was working for Fugro up until very recently, bidding on contracts mostly so no offshore work. The projects they worked on always seem interesting though. Lots of UXO searches, that sort of stuff. I recall once they were called in last minute to scan and locate the sea bed for an oil rig leg that had come free whilst the rig was being moved - that's not a small item!
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fad
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Sept 14, 2017 18:35:05 GMT
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Boo, hiss, Fugro... lol!
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Sept 14, 2017 18:35:31 GMT
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I work for a company that provides bits for rigs. I knew there was a hell of a lot of money in it but was flabbergasted after working there for a bit. Simply staggering.
Thought about getting onto it myself maybe 10-12 years ago as I'm a welder, but it seemed a completely closed shop and that the good money was gone.
I did work with a bloke who used to do dive welding on rigs, he was bloody amazing at his work but pretty much insane.
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heathrobinson
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Sept 14, 2017 20:12:37 GMT
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I'm fairly sure I saw that Maersk jack-up ship on a program about the world's largest floating crane recently - the bow section alone weighed 3000 tons! Worth a watch.
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fad
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Sept 14, 2017 21:09:40 GMT
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I work for a company that provides bits for rigs. I knew there was a hell of a lot of money in it but was flabbergasted after working there for a bit. Simply staggering. Thought about getting onto it myself maybe 10-12 years ago as I'm a welder, but it seemed a completely closed shop and that the good money was gone. I did work with a bloke who used to do dive welding on rigs, he was bloody amazing at his work but pretty much insane. Its a very very tough game to break into. And get out of!
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Sept 14, 2017 21:25:06 GMT
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Yeah , i gather . Tough job but monies just to good to pass up .I have worked with some right miserable gits really as well , people that can barely be bothered to be civil and look down on anyone who doesnt do what they do .
Had to work with a old geordie git for a few weeks and all he has done for 30 years is fit swagelock pipe. Thats bending pipe with a brake pipe bending like tool and fitting crushable fittings to it . Piece of curse word but he has been paid a fortune and thinks he was a brain surgeon or something .
Most unsociable miserable person i have ever had the misfortune to work with .
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Sept 14, 2017 22:03:02 GMT
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I work for a company that provides bits for rigs. I knew there was a hell of a lot of money in it but was flabbergasted after working there for a bit. Simply staggering. Thought about getting onto it myself maybe 10-12 years ago as I'm a welder, but it seemed a completely closed shop and that the good money was gone. I did work with a bloke who used to do dive welding on rigs, he was bloody amazing at his work but pretty much insane. Its a very very tough game to break into. And get out of! Getting out is easy...... the trick is getting out alive....... or even undamaged. Nick
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Sept 14, 2017 23:19:30 GMT
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Nice pics. My lad was deck foreman on a dive support vessel, first out of Singapore and latterly out of Egypt. Safe to say that standards differed markedly between the two. As did the smell! Unfortunately, the oil price crash put everything on hold (including much maintenance) but he's trying to get back to it.
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fad
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Sept 15, 2017 7:43:36 GMT
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Its a very very tough game to break into. And get out of! Getting out is easy...... the trick is getting out alive....... or even undamaged. Nick ...and staying out. The sea calls to me lol I got out because I broke. I just sorta unravelled.
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autojumbled
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Sept 15, 2017 8:15:27 GMT
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LOL - pretty much what my wife says these days!
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Sept 15, 2017 21:24:49 GMT
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I used to work for PGS that operate the Ramform class of boats, I mainly worked onshore on seismic surveys with dynamite or vibes, despised offshore work, a year off the coast of Malaysia was more than enough.
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fad
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Sept 16, 2017 5:52:34 GMT
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I used to work for PGS that operate the Ramform class of boats, I mainly worked onshore on seismic surveys with dynamite or vibes, despised offshore work, a year off the coast of Malaysia was more than enough. I never fancied deep seismic. I preferred our more varied work on the multirole ships. Used to do a lot of single streamer, sonar, analogue, gradiometer and sampling work for shallow gas, cable routes, UXO, geotechnical, environmental,camera work, ROV, sediment sampling, real varied work worldwide. Enjoyed it immensely till it went belly up and things got too tough.
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Sept 16, 2017 15:10:25 GMT
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what the hell is that machine in the above picture? looks pretty awsome
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fad
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Sept 16, 2017 15:13:38 GMT
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what the hell is that machine in the above picture? looks pretty awsome Land seismic source. Thumper plate.
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Sept 16, 2017 15:28:46 GMT
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thanks for that, I think I might like one of those!
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Sept 16, 2017 19:24:59 GMT
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I used to work for PGS that operate the Ramform class of boats, I mainly worked onshore on seismic surveys with dynamite or vibes, despised offshore work, a year off the coast of Malaysia was more than enough. I never fancied deep seismic. I preferred our more varied work on the multirole ships. Used to do a lot of single streamer, sonar, analogue, gradiometer and sampling work for shallow gas, cable routes, UXO, geotechnical, environmental,camera work, ROV, sediment sampling, real varied work worldwide. Enjoyed it immensely till it went belly up and things got too tough. Aye, it was a proper pisser it went down the pan, I went from having 5 operating countries in the eastern hemisphere to shutting down and moving to Brazil and having to learn Portuguese. I spent the last year working in Brazil and a few months back I packed it in to work back in the UK and keep the wife happy, never had a spare moment to work on any projects since getting back here. Multirole ship work sounds interesting whereas the offshore surveys we did were mind numbingly boring and I could never sleep with 12+ guns firing off the back deck all night. Much preferred the curse word holes of Africa and the Middle East, every day was an adventure.
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