We went to Badami to do oil spill training with a skimmer yesterday. Badami is about 35 miles to the east of here, and my first trip in that direction.
After training, we were invited up to their mess hall to eat. What a beautiful place. The mile or two drive from the [...]
Took a 35 mile trip to do training at a place called F Pad today. Saw my first polar bears on the way. The first was a large boar on a barrier island. Even though he was quite distant, the bear looked very large.
On a nearby island, we saw a [...]
An uneventful day spent doing vessel maintenance. Testing bilge and hiqh water alarms, alot of bilge cleaning, etc. Near the end of the day, I happened in a conversation with a lead person who is doing seismic work for the 8 mile long Liberty drill. He said the seismic is not for [...]
Spent all day on a boat ride to the Ooguruk (sp?) drill pad. Like Northstar, it’s a tiny man-made island you can walk across in less than 5 minutes. The trip was about 2.5 hours each way, much of it through the fog. We went there to jump on a small boat [...]
Yesterday, I crewed on the boat taking employees to and from the Northstar rig. This operation is on a tiny island. And by tiny, I don’t mean one you can walk around in an hour. I mean one you can walk around in 5 or 10 minutes. Just tiny.
And from here, [...]
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