Bored....A few pics from the Offshore Industry

[Richo1]

Hi all,

Bored sitting onboard wishing I was fishing, counting down the last remaining days till home so thought I'd share a few pics from work. Nothing too exciting a few calm days, a couple of Tows, mooring retrieval and the tug i spend 6 months of the year on.

Cheers

Richo

[wayno60]

Mate ive often wondered in big sea do the rigs sway or are the rock solid?

[Richo1]

Depends alot on the type of Rig, working on the NW shelf of OZ most of the Rigs I go to are sitting on the bottom in depths from 40 - 150m and pretty solid. By the time they start shaking and hit with big waves we are long gone heading for shelter. Being a small rig tender (40m)most of our work is within 200nm of the coast and fortunately haven't been out there when its been too bad.. touch wood.

[Richo1]

a few more.......

[Wayne_Red]

Nice. What is your job on there. How long have you ben on them? I always wanted to do that
Wayne

[TREVELLY]

I am sure it can be a grind - but I imagine a lot of fun too.

Bet the weather offers some weird and wonderful days too

Thanks for sharing

[ozynorts]

Surely the boss wouldn't mind if you trolled a few lures off the back....:)

[Richo1]

3 years in the offshore now, 2 as mate and now skipper. Great job especially the ship handling, the last week has been sitting on anchor getting ready for a new contract, hence getting bored. West coast does have some interesting weather and spent last week avoiding cyclone Rusty, ending up in Exmouth. Swing started in Darwin on a 2 week Seismic Survey job then took her back to Dampier which is our home port. Lots of variety and have done jobs from Fremantle to Darwin now. Burns roughly 200L/hour at 1100rpm cruising at 10knots. Fuel carried onboard 280 000 liters . Real glad I don't pay the fuel bill!
A lot of HSE over kill and fishing isn't permitted by the company http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/03/08/re4uhuzu.jpg

However the subtle 3 piece 24kg T curve fits nicely in my travel bag. 😉

[captain rednut]

hey richo1
i have some advertisements in the classifieds and Ive had several blokes contact me via txt message saying they want to buy my item and they currently work on a oil rig out offshore and can i provide my bank account details for them to pay the money. Is this what you blokes do when your bored??? just kidding and it sounds like its a very interesting job.
cheers jim

[Captain Seaweed]

Richo....cool job mate!!!!

[Richo1]

The credit cards can sure cope a flogging when Internet is provided and your stuck at sea on a 40 x 11m space dreaming of what your going to do on your time off��
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Engine room abit messy, the Chief Enginner and CAT are doing a rebuild on the Generators Port one just about done CAT 3406C after 30000hrs (a little overdue)

[MEG-A-BITE]

Must be hard sitting around good fishing grounds and not able to get a line in the water.Like the pics of the rig.

[WalrusLike]

Thanks heaps for sharing.

Congrats on living the life I fantasise about. :)

Those prop shapes look interesting. Not at all what I would have expected.



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[tropicrows]

Thanks for sharing, sound like it would be very interesting most of the time. But not being able to fish in slack time would be a bummer.

[royslaven]

Hey Richo, I did 2 years on pluto lng project, finished in august last, but would have seen your boat out the front no doubt, did you see me waving ? cheers roy.
PS know how it feels waiting for the end of your swing, your roster is better than mine 4+1

[chris69]

thanks for posting those pics Richo1 your a lucky man haveing a oil tender to run and well done for reaching that level ticket to run such a boat,luv the engine room very clean,what size nozzels are on it? cheers chris.

[Richo1]

Nozzles are 2m in diameter.
Yeah would have been out there at some stage Roy. When I was on the Mermaid Guardian we towed the Maritime Dawn barge out to Pluto quite a few times.