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    ^ Maybe, but at least I've kept what little remains of my self respect!

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    In other news, what's your opinion on Sausage and beans in a tin, I like em.

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    ^^ you could have gone down in history.

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    Quote Originally Posted by malmomike77 View Post
    some English colour to that by strutting around the helideck in your wicking trollies and doing a workout session
    Thats an imagine I did not want nor need in my brain!

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    @mendy - just a few more days, hang in there!

    Btw, in the recent pic - was that SPAM? I noticed that Lui (the cook) made the effort to put cilantro leaves for color.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    permanent targets for photogrammetry
    Like this ?

    -targets-jpg

    ELCOVISON 10 Demoversion - ELCOVISION 10 English

    Are they on a pole "stuck" along the top of the pipe?

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    ^ No Seamen reference?

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    When his Doctor told him at that weight he could have a stroke at any time, it seems like the message was taken the wrong way

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    ^^^ FFS... what about all the good things I do?

    ^^^^ Yes, OhOh, exactly like that. A few targets are installed along the top of a pipeline using magnetic brackets at each station, along with targets installed on blocks on the seabed alongside so that relative movement can be measured. Thanks for your continued mature and pertinent questions!


    ^ Edit: Just to be clear, I think I'm now well below this so called 'obese' level and maybe even below 'fat bastard' level. I'll find out next week.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    Edit: Just to be clear, I think I'm now well below this so called 'obese' level and maybe even below 'fat bastard' level. I'll find out next week.
    Ill bet you are! Excessive wanking leads to weight loss!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Saint Willy View Post
    Excessive wanking leads to weight loss!
    Muscle is heavier than fat














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    ^ I can tell that's photoshopped because the edge of the pool has bulged as well.

    That's made me feel a bit home sick to be honest. I miss my dogs and try not to think about them too much when I'm away...

    But on a more serious note, I've heard about this muscle being heavier than fat thing and am already prepared for less weight loss than I was aiming for. I've been doing weights as well as cardio stuff.

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    -5shztwi-2-jpg


    Either that's an extremely detailed statuette of a bovine, you and your dogs are exceedingly huge, or you're a mad scientist who has successfuly bred the world's smallest cattle.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    your continued mature
    Way past "mature", reverted back to a stroppy, live for today, teenager, a decade or so ago. Too many accommodating Thai ladies.



    My carbon footprint reduction plan has been working for a few years.



    I even walk to the local shop during daylight, unheard of it seems here in the jungle.

    After sundown, the dog packs claim precedence.
    A tray full of GOLD is not worth a moment in time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by happynz View Post

    Either that's an extremely detailed statuette of a bovine, you and your dogs are exceedingly huge, or you're a mad scientist who has successfuly bred the world's smallest cattle.
    It's option 1. My dogs are normal size and the only huge part of me these days seems to be my left biceps... I don't know why.

    I bought that white cow many years ago in Dan Kwian, the pottery village a few miles south of Korat. It's solid clay and weighs a bladdy ton as opposed to most of the flimsy hollow animal statues that constantly get broken by the dogs.


    A few weeks ago I showed a few pics of the Turkish landfall of the TurkStream pipelines at the Turkish coast. Over the last few days we've been surveying the Russian nearshore area where the gas starts it's journey, south-westwards across the Black Sea.



    The two pipelines were pulled into tunnels bored beneath that cliff.



    To the north we have Anapa...



    And further to the south, Novorossiysk. I guess this small settlement is workers' accommodation for the gas plant.



    The two tunnels were bored subsea beneath this cliff, the other side of which the offshore pipelines are tied into the land pipeline network. As before, 16m water depth was about our limit and this was as close in as we could get. That discarded, buoyed up fishing net didn't help things either.



    Some nicely folded bedding planes...



    That was one nearshore pipeline setion completed. We couldn't just survey outwards on the other pipeline was we have to survey up-slope, towards shore, in this area where the seabed slopes up steeply from the abyssal plane.



    The ROV was recovered for us to transit out to work on the second pipeline, up-slope, towards shore.





    Once the nearshore areas within the Russian territorial waters are finished, we have to clear customs and then complete the inspections of the intervening 900 odd kilometres of each pipeline between Russia and Turkey. But when I say 'we', I should say 'they'... as it's not my problem.

    Eight days to go!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    Eight days to go!
    Don't lose your focus.

    Has the company have any work earmarked for you, when you become available, next year?

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    The water looks beautiful there...what's the average temp? I'm guessing nut shriveling...

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    ^^ There is work next year OhOh, the industry's becoming very busy, very fast as the world comes out of Covid.

    The problem for me remains the travel with Covid restrictions. Getting home from this job will mean a two week trip back to the UK, a Covid jab, Thai Pass, coordinating booking flights, etc. Not so much of a problem after a 3 month trip but not really feasible after the usual 4 week trips. I'd love to get back on a 4 on/4 off or a 6 on/6 off rota but I think that is still a way off still...


    Quote Originally Posted by Topper View Post
    The water looks beautiful there...what's the average temp? I'm guessing nut shriveling...
    I don't know what the average temperature is, but right now the surface temperature is 16 degrees. I don't know if that counts as 'nut shriveling' but it's certainly way too cold for me. I like it around 28 degrees. At the seabed 2 kilometers down the temperature is around 6 degrees.

    Apparently Anapa is a popular Black Sea resort and looks like this in the summer...



    I wouldn't swim in that water. Not after the number of dead dolphins we've found rotting on the seabed... not far from land either. There's virtually no fish and the seabed is just a dirty, litter strewn sludge. The Russians are welcome to it.

    I've been told that the hills and dunes to the south of Anapa are famous for naturists. I've been scouring the coast with the skipper's binoculars but haven't seen anything of interest as yet. Maybe November is a bit cold for them?



    But anyway, despite some problems the crew change is looking good for next Wednesday in Samsun, Turkey... in 5 days time. I've a Covid jab booked in the UK for next Saturday and a flight to Bangkok 14 days later. There's a few things to sort out but with any luck I'll get a pint in Bangkok 3 weeks on Monday!

    Fingers crossed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    I wouldn't swim in that water... not after the number of dead dolphins we've found rotting on the seabed... not far from land either. There's virtually no fish and the seabed is just a dirty, litter strewn sludge. The Russians are welcome to it.
    Damn, sadly really well put and tragic

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    Quote Originally Posted by aging one View Post
    Damn, sadly really well put and tragic
    A real shame to hear that it has been turned into a trash heap. See this...

    The Black Sea: Can Europe'''s most polluted sea be saved? - BBC News

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    Mendy, please watch the video in that link. From what I gather, where they claim there is hope is bullshit.

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    The River Thames was supposedly 'dead' for decades.

    Most of the time that claim is bullshit, I reckon.

    The planet will be 100% fine after humanity has died off - it just might take a while.

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    I think a big difference between a river and the Black Sea is that the water is constantly being replenished in a river, so take away the source of pollution and hopefully things will improve fairly quickly.

    I'm surprised that in that video nothing was mentioned about the unique, natural reasons the Black Sea is so devoid of life. It was a freshwater lake before the marine inundation a few thousand years ago and it's only connected to the world's oceans by the narrow Bosphorus Strait, so has virtually no circulation, making the deeper water extremely saline (by constant evaporation). It is very deep and the water is de-oxygenated below around 150 metres depth and therefore the seabed is lifeless apart from around the coast. The anaerobic decomposition of organic matter produces hydrogen sulphide, so much that we have to wash down the ROV after each dive. The Black Sea is being considered as a source of hydrogen in the future, that's how toxic the water is.

    In saying that, it's also surrounded by extremely polluting countries that have poured in shite for decades, and it has no-where to go. Many countries pour their waste into the sea, but for the UK for example, strong ocean currents and tides wash it all away. In the Black Sea that doesn't happen.

    After working here and looking through video of the seabed/subsea pipelines for the past six weeks I've seen maybe five fish and not a single crab, not even in the coastal zones. We have seen quite a few dolphins jumping around the boat, but also an awful lot of dead dolphins rotting on the seabed. The seabed is strewn with plastic litter, especially on the Turkish side, but to be fair no worse than you see in the Mediterranean.

    I know one thing, I certainly wouldn't swim in the Black Sea and no way would I eat a fish caught here. I can't really see any hope for the place.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    I can't really see any hope for the place.
    Truly a tragic situation. So was there ever a fishery there?

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