Same shit, different ship

[bsnub]

Telling the wife to stop washing clothes and to stop using the A/C is reprehensible, especially for a meager $200 power bill.



Furthermore, there is no such thing as "aircon head"

[malmomike77]

Aircon eyes

[Edmond]

Surprised he doesn't disconnect them just before he leaves. Just in case.

[cyrille]

there is no such thing as "aircon head"

There definitely is in these parts.

[Mendip]

^ Yeah, ain't there just. Type in "aircon headaches' into Google and you get loads of hits...

Some people are extremely sensitive to a drop in the indoor humidity and can experience severe headaches from the lack of moisture in the air—especially when sleeping at night. To avoid an air conditioner causing headaches, make sure to keep well hydrated and try to avoid abrupt temperature/humidity changes.


^^^^ Snubby, you paint me in a bad light.

Firstly it's not "a meager $200 power bill", it's lots of bills, we get them every month. And I didn't tell the wife to stop using aircon and top washing clothes (I was referring to personal showers anyway). The wife complained that the leccy and water bills had gone up the moment I left the house for work and I was merely pointing out why this had happened. The family are very welcome to use the aircon, I just discourage it, that's all. And anyway, as if they'd take any notice of me. What's wrong with open windows, fans during the night and a jump in the pool in the morning to freshen up?

^^^

Ed, there's no need to disconnect the aircon units before I leave for work. Hiding the remotes is just as effective.

I would imagine.


Anyway, we stayed at Oseberg all day yesterday and after my shift I was sending a few Whatsapp messages while looking out at Oseberg C...



... when the hangar doors started to open. This means the ROV was about to be recovered so I hung about to get some pics.



Up from the deep... (well, about 120m water depth here).





And latched on.



One of the new Filipino trainees had the controls (under close supervision) and nicely done!




And Randy excelled himself tonight... but midnight is too early for 'Taco Friday' for me and these days I walk straight past the chips. Just a bowl of chicken soup for breakfast...



... with one of these things. They were called 'eggplant torts' and very nice too, but I don't know what was tort about them.

[BLD]

They are a fantastic breakfast eggplant tortang talong i believe they are called. Was just thinking about them ,actually i was thinking about an old flame that used to cook them for me. Bibingka betty, great girl good with eggplants. A very under rated vegetable for breakfast

[bsnub]

irstly it's not "a meager $200 power bill", it's lots of bills, we get them every month.

We all get them. It is part of daily life and if you ran off to LOS to escape them it seems you are sorely mistaken.

The family are very welcome to use the aircon, I just discourage it, that's all.

A stern discouragement from the man of the house, holds sway, and it has seemed to have intimidated the ladies in your house, as when you are gone they are able to more freely use the laundry and run the air con.

No wonder you sleep alone when you go home.

[Reg Dingle]

^ He doesnt sleep alone. There's him, the wife, daughter, Lola and the gardener in that bed. With just the one fan running...on the low setting

[Edmond]

the gardener

one fan

Surprised if his job isn't pedaling it.

[david44]

^ He doesnt sleep alone. There's him, the wife, daughter, Lola and the gardener in that bed. With just the one fan running...on the low setting

Your just jealous , some like it hot,

Next bus stop where a luminous thong with a flashing knob saying

"Room for one more on top"

Oddly a US film with a Canadian leading lady who was later Phuket Bound, or was it Bangkok Bondage , it's hard to keep up with these multinickers

[DrWilly]

^ He doesnt sleep alone. There's him, the wife, daughter, Lola and the gardener in that bed. With just the one fan running...on the low setting

And windows open. To the bugs, rats and mosquitoes.

[Bonecollector]

Grub looks fanny fantastic on this tour of duty, lots of options.

[Mendip]

Yesterday morning we had to postpone the Oseberg 500m zone work due to fog, se we headed off to the Troll field to see of we would have better luck.

Troll B off the stern of the vessel...



By lunchtime the fog had cleared.



Troll B is a semi-sub (floating but moored to the seabed with tethers attached to anchors) and not as famous as Troll A, a gravity based structure that sits on the seabed in over 300m of water. That's Troll A in the distance.



And under the waves...



Tonight we have 6 metre seas which are forecast to last until mid-week. As this is beyond our working limit we're heading towards land to carry out some nearshore route surveys in sheltered waters. The clients always have some back-up work up their sleeves for just such an occasion so that we don't go on standby. The seas are from the north and we're heading east, beam on, so it's not pleasant. The new batch of trainees that joined us last crew change have long since gone to their cabins!

They are a fantastic breakfast eggplant tortang talong i believe they are called. Was just thinking about them ,actually i was thinking about an old flame that used to cook them for me. Bibingka betty, great girl good with eggplants. A very under rated vegetable for breakfast

Yeah, I really enjoyed them and put one aside for the next meal as well. So "tortang talong" explains where the "eggplant tort" name came from. I always thought torts were some kind of pie of tart?

@mendy - nice breakfast spread there by Randy - I approve! Yes, that way of cooking tuna is popular in PH - I like it, esp if it's a little bit spicy. ... If I had all that free food available everyday, I would probably gain weight ASAP. I remember my neighbour's son (a maritime stident) - after he returned from his OJT on an international ship, it was obvious that he gained weight. He said there was lots of food onboard, and he particularly liked Nutella.

Yes Katie, it does take a lot of will power not to overeat as meals are about all you have to look forward to out here. I should be OK now that I go to the gym do often!

Randy also knocked up this kind of stewed tinned mackerel dish with onions the other day. Call me traditional but I prefer my tinned fish cold and with some bread and salad, but each to their own of course.



We don't have Nutella onboard but we do have this Norwegian copy called "Nugatti" which they claim is 'Den originale'. They seem to copy everything. I don't go for this kind stuff but I'll probably take a few tubes home for the daughter.

Grub looks fanny fantastic on this tour of duty, lots of options.

The food has been excellent BC and it's been testing my will power.

Tonight was a 'sausage party' and if there had been trays full of proper English sausages I would have been in trouble... but I don't go for these Continental frankfurter things so it was no problem and I walked on past.



I opted for Randy's oxtail soup, one of my favourites. Sadly, just as I took the pic the boat rolled and much to the amusement of my colleagues, I ended up wearing a good portion.

[DrWilly]

That soup does look good!

[BLD]

It looks like randy is doing a pretty good job. But ive got to wonder how many people does it take to run a boat of that size? What would be the percentage of filipino crew ? Foreign crew? And norwegians on board? Just curious , years ago i attempted to join the australian merchant marine but as the yearly intake was so small i had no chance. Aussie seamen that i know told me you basicly have to know someone to get in. A lot of shippingcompanies fly a flag of convenience and can hire anybody? Ive never heard any seaman mates australian or otherwise complain about the quality of the filipino seaman,

[malmomike77]

but I prefer my tinned fish cold

and without tomato sauce

I ended up wearing a good portion.

liquid in a mug and solids in a bowl

[David48atTD]

Damm it, I'm only on page 3, so much to catch up on.

Work and kids keeping me busy.

Not much to do about the sub hunt, more about the Norwegian oil fields

[david44]

Interesting nr Kirknes whicj I saw in 7os before the boom

Those floating rigs I assume could be moved once cycle ended?

Be interested in approx compliment onboard teh TRolls and you vessel, I am guessing around 40 and 24 all hands?

[katie23]

@mendy - the tortang talong (eggplant omelette) is a common dish for any of the 3 meals. We sometimes ate it for dinner, my dad liked cooking it. Sometimes we make it "posher" by adding minced pork/ chicken which has been sautéed with onion & garlic prior to adding the beaten eggs to the eggplant. Sometimes, the tortang talong is the one & only viand for the meal, plus rice. So preparing it with minced meat adds protein to the dish. The eggplant can either be grilled (then skins removed) or boiled. After that, the veg is opened up/ butterflied so that it becomes flat, then one pours the beaten eggs. I don't eat/ cook it that much since it can become very oily.

As for the tinned sardines or mackerel, it's common "poor people" food, since a can of sardines is cheap (and SPAM is posh bcos it's expensive.) There's usually tomato sauce so that the sauce can add flavor to rice, when they're eaten together. Sometimes, a small can (or 2) of sardines or mackerel is the only viand/ dish for the family meal. There's also the "Spanish style" sardines wherein the fish are marinated(?) in vegetable oil and the dish is a bit spicy. I seldom eat the sardines (in tomato sauce) but sometimes I have a craving for it. I prefer it cooked (with onions & garlic) than straight from the tin.


I think Randy preparing the tinned mackerel, tuna or sardines & eggplant omelette - it's for the Filipino staff/ mariners since those foods will remind them of home.

[malmomike77]

As for the tinned sardines or mackerel, it's common "poor people" food

same in thailand

[Mendip]

It looks like randy is doing a pretty good job. But ive got to wonder how many people does it take to run a boat of that size? What would be the percentage of filipino crew ? Foreign crew? And norwegians on board? Just curious , years ago i attempted to join the australian merchant marine but as the yearly intake was so small i had no chance. Aussie seamen that i know told me you basicly have to know someone to get in. A lot of shippingcompanies fly a flag of convenience and can hire anybody? Ive never heard any seaman mates australian or otherwise complain about the quality of the filipino seaman,

If one of our vessels goes to Australians waters to work almost all of the marine crew have to be swapped out for Aussies, I think just about everyone apart from senior officers. This happens even when a vessel has a regular core crew. The marine industry in Australia is so heavily unionised I think many contractors would rather look elsewhere for work as it's just too much hassle. Unless the money makes it worth while of course.

Those floating rigs I assume could be moved once cycle ended?

Be interested in approx compliment onboard the TRolls and you vessel, I am guessing around 40 and 24 all hands?

In theory the semi subs could be moved to another field I guess but with such long design lives I don't think that happens very often. They wold need a complete refit for the new requirements of handling/processing a different grade of product etc but this isn't really my area.


Our vessel currently has a POB of 56. That's made up of 22 marine crew (who look after the day to day running of the vessel) and 34 project crew... Offshore Manager, ROV and survey. We have 6 trainees on just now so that brings the project crew count down to 28. We have 9 Filipino on board, 7 are marine crew and 2 ROV trainees. Apart from that, the marine crew are mainly Norwegian and the project crew are about 50% Norwegian and British with a couple of Egyptians, a Swede and a Pole thrown in.

We will go up to a maximum of around 70 POB on this vessel for jobs requiring riggers/deck foremen, CP (cathodic protection) contractors, dredging contractors, etc etc.

As for the POB on production platforms I have no idea but suspect that everything is so automated that it would be fewer than you'd think. PAG would know a lot better than me.


After escaping the bad weather offshore headed past the offshore supply base north of Bergen early yesterday on the way to the next project.



We now have a flat calm for a cable route survey through a fjord which is way preferable to bouncing around at sea while waiting for the weather to come down at Troll where there are still 6 metre seas. This survey is for another Power From Shore (PFS) cable to electrify another offshore field.





We had over 500 metre water depth just a stone's throw from land.



So far we've found two uncharted wrecks on the cable route, both over 100 years old by the looks of things. This is the live feed fed through to my office during a visual of one of them.



It's strange to think of people living just a few hundred metres from a shipwreck all these years and having no idea that it's there.



This project will go on for another 5 to 6 days so considering we've found two wrecks in the first day it seems likely that we'll find a few more.

[Edmond]

Our vessel currently has a POB of 56. That's made up of 22 marine crew (who look after the day to day running of the vessel) and 34 project crew... Offshore Manager, ROV and survey. We have 6 trainees on just now so that brings the project crew count down to 28. We have 9 Filipino on board, 7 are marine crew and 2 ROV trainees. Apart from that, the marine crew are mainly Norwegian and the project crew are about 50% Norwegian and British with a couple of Egyptians, a Swede and a Pole thrown in.

We will go up to a maximum of around 70 POB on this vessel for jobs requiring riggers/deck foremen, CP (cathodic protection) contractors, dredging contractors, etc etc.

Is there any legal requirement to have a qualified medic onboard?

Or do some of the senior officers need to have decent medical training and certificates as part of their job?

[Mendip]

^ Yes, we always have a trained medic onboard. I'm sure that one or more officers will also have advanced first aid certs.

Part of the offshore survival courses everyone has to take is first aid although I wouldn't fancy getting resuscitated by some of the hairy arsed contractors out here.

[david44]

hairy arsed contractors

invaluable insights of deep drilling which only comes from hands on experience.

Thanks for a great thread and excellent quality pix.

When moored are you allowed to catch fish for fun?

[malmomike77]

So far we've found two uncharted wrecks on the cable route, both over 100 years old by the looks of things

Do the wrecks you chart find their way into public domain charts?