Showing posts with label Work. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Work. Show all posts

Monday, 13 January 2014

Glass has a practical use?

Surprisingly I have found a practical use for the Glass. I had to take a couple of measurements on one of my vessels and instead of awkwardly dropping the tape and writing them down I just set up and gave a wink. Voila my Glass captured the length. Now if I can convince my boss to pay for the cost of this new tool...


Wednesday, 13 February 2013

From the deepest, darkest depths...

We are currently on a job off the coast of Angola, at a water depth of 2000m (that's 6,500ft for my seppo friends). The depth makes it a little challenging due to the high pressure, time it takes to get things from surface to seabed and a lack of secondary crane (it only goes to 1500m).

Sometimes in this industry we get help from unexpected places that is always appreciated. Thus far though this would have to be the strangest help we had received:


This little guy came to help us with the tie-in of the umbilical.