Thread: Random offshore pics

Originally Posted by Mendip

but I told her to keep her hands off my rocks

Get your 25Kg rocks off in the 'Kok on your way back to the dog-pound Mendip

Safe Travels and Bon Voyage

They're great, aren't they Snubs!


But for FFS Headworx, I've just spent $80 on two glasses with shipping.

And then I carried on and bought one of these... (and they spelt Palaeozoic wrong)

And what have they done to the Carboniferous???



And also one of these...



And then two of these...



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What's your address HW... this is your fault, I'm sending you the bill.

I think I'll stick with my mr.men and little miss cups

Originally Posted by Mendip

But for FFS Headworx, I've just spent $80 on two glasses with shipping.

*must resist editing glasses to brasses and shipping to .....*

Originally Posted by Mendip

What's your address HW... this is your fault, I'm sending you the bill.

Sure thing mate.

C/O The White Building.
Windsor, Berkshire.
SL4 1NJ.

Originally Posted by Headworx

C/O The White Building.
Windsor, Berkshire.
SL4 1NJ

I knew it!

You've got English blood flowing through your veins

The very best view of a boat is in the rear view mirror of a taxi as you head to the airport.

The very worst view is of one you're about to board on a cold and blustery Norwegian spring morning.



The view is made worse when you see a gaggle of waiting crew who can't wait to disembark, which is never a good sign. I've been spoilt by working on nice boats for the past couple of years.



It's a smaller boat than I've got used to, with a busy back deck.





Hopefully we won't be needing these...



It's now looking like only a 2 week trip... a long way to come for that. I'm trying to pick up another 2 or 3 weeks work on another boat while I'm over here. This company are trying to get me an 'emergency' work permit as they have loads of work to do in the Norwegian office but I don't know how realistic that is in such a short amount of time. Brexit... it just keeps on giving.

But for now... I've slept in a lot of worse cabins.

^ looks fine, I've bunked with 6 in cabin that size admittedly for only 6 days, now its all about the lady chef and her capabilities.

Originally Posted by Mendip

But for now... I've slept in a lot of worse cabins.

Is there two in the Cabin?

^ Yeah, I'm sharing with a guy on the opposite shift.

I pulled rank and bagsied the bottom bunk.

Originally Posted by Mendip

This company are trying to get me an 'emergency' work permit as they have loads of work to do in the Norwegian office but I don't know how realistic that is in such a short amount of time. Brexit...

Any chance of you qualifying for a better passport, such as an Irish one?

I know two old ones born in the late 1940s that qualified for both Irish and British PPs, as anyone born in Ireland before a certain year was, their daughter has both as born in England in the 1960s.

You might be able to dig out an old relly and be able to upgrade to being Irish.

^ I'm pretty sure to be sure that I don't have any Irish blood but I will check with my mum, Mrs O'Mendip.

#pray4thelittleenglishfellas

Now to the important questions, what is the policy for booze onboard?

Looks like a pretty cool/ fun gig to me. Probably depends on the quality of the food and crew.

What will you be working on, the same as before, pipeline maintenance/inspections or rock sampling and classifying .... ?

Originally Posted by Edmond

and be able to upgrade to being Irish.

Being Irish is most certainly an upgrade!

Originally Posted by Bonecollector

Now to the important questions, what is the policy for booze onboard?

Looks like a pretty cool/ fun gig to me. Probably depends on the quality of the food and crew.

You have not been following this thread have you mate?

Originally Posted by DrWilly

Being Irish is most certainly an upgrade!

Originally Posted by Bonecollector

Now to the important questions, what is the policy for booze onboard?

Looks like a pretty cool/ fun gig to me. Probably depends on the quality of the food and crew.

It's zero tolerance for alcohol mate, with the constant threat of random alcohol and drug testing.

When I started offshore 30 odd years ago most people would have a bottle in their cabin to 'help get to sleep' when on the nightshift and the offshore manager would occasionally invite a select few to his cabin for a 'safety meeting'. Being a newbie back then, I wasn't invited.

When we finished a project the client would often depart by helicopter, and then the offshore manager would get a few crates of beer and some bottles of whisky from the bond and we'd have a party. Port calls meant a piss up, right up until the gangway was raised. If you missed the gangway due to that extra pint, you had to jump across from the quayside to the back deck before the boat departed. And there were accidents, of course.

My last drink offshore was sharing a miniature bottle of whisky with a mate in his cabin on New Years Eve 2004. I still remember it... we were working up north in the Åsgard Field.

These days I have a few drinks flying over the day before, and that's it. I don't even bother getting off the boat during port calls. The whole atmosphere has changed and alcohol just isn't a part of it any more. I am glad really as it gives me a few weeks dry every year and the threat of instant dismissal is just too much. If you get a dismissal through alcohol or drugs in this industry you'll really struggle to find employment with any other company, especially if freelance. It's a very small world and there's no secrets.

I have a good friend who tested positive for cannabis a few years ago while working offshore... he'd had a smoke during his month off and and it was still in his system. This seems very unfair to me, but we all know the rules and that's just the way it is now.

Originally Posted by OhOh

What will you be working on, the same as before, pipeline maintenance/inspections or rock sampling and classifying .... ?

This is all pipeline inspection, structure inspection and intervention (installing mattresses/sandbags/filter units etc) to stabilise subsea infrastructure. It's rare I get to sample/classify rocks.

Originally Posted by DrWilly

Being Irish is most certainly an upgrade!

I'd even say I was Welsh if it solved the problem.

Originally Posted by Mendip

I'm sharing with a guy on the opposite shift.

The fooker's still got his tent up on the top bunk

I can imagine it's gonna be pretty damn musty in there

Have you tried opening a window?

^ It's a port hole, not a window.

It's strange you say that... I'm sharing with a guy from Karachi, called Muhammad would you believe. He's been complaining that the ship is too cold and keeps turning up the heating in the cabin. When I get there for my sleep it is baking hot and musty, and the port hole doesn't open.

Originally Posted by Mendip

and the port hole doesn't open.

I bet his does though.

How long will it be before renewing your passport again?

My Dad used to say ... any port in a storm

Originally Posted by David48atTD

My Dad used to say ... any port in a storm

It wasn't while discussing how he met your mother was it.

Originally Posted by Mendip

I am glad really as it gives me a few weeks dry every year and the threat of instant dismissal is just too much. If you get a dismissal through alcohol or drugs in this industry you'll really struggle to find employment with any other company, especially if freelance. It's a very small world and there's no secrets.

I totally agree and hear where you are coming from. Gives your liver a chance to recover and heal any damage. Interesting stuff how the industry has changed.