Oceaneering training in Aberdeen

Enjoy Aberdeen, its Winter, take a BIG jumper!

Oh hang on your from Canada, youll be used to cold and miserable 🙂

OK, start taking Milk Thistle to help your liver cope with drinking copius pints of beer. 9 weeks, sheesh.

Find your way down to the harbour to the Crown & Anchor pub – the offshore local pub. Always full of ROV types. Say hello to Val behind the bar 🙂

Hi Black Dog,

That’s an excellent description of starting out as a trainee in the ROV business!
As I was reading it I just sat there nodding my head thinking yes that’s right and remembering my first few trips offshore.
To trainees and people wanting to start in the business read and learn.

Good advice!

Regards,

RIC 😉

Excellent post black dog, I have recently been put in charge of work site training, and was wondering how to preamble a training evolution, I hope you don’t mind if I steal some of your pointers, they say plagarism is the sincerest form of flattery after all. 😉

Not that struck on ray’s choice of boozer though. 🙂

None are so busy as the fool!

Yep I was on the course last year and to be fair it was quite a good course ,but its now better its more hands on ,as they have a magnum that has been through the wars ie some bright spark cut out one of the main support legs 😕 to get out a motor i think ,needless to say Rov is f@*ked as its frame is now like a twisted jimmy ,any way it still shows you the size and various parts of it minus 1 leg ,also think they have updated the notes as they were a bit on the old side and as most of the systems are getting upgraded to the more modern OPAC controll system and getting rid of the tired and rather horrible GESPAC system ,the new CTAG is far better ,simulator great untill you end up with cyber chair and every thing is diffrent from what you have learned on the course and instead of landing up with a sub that ends in an UM you end up with a Triton or SCV which has completly diffrent controlls to the subs with UM on the end ie trims for lats and verts and TOP HAT tms instead of Cages ,it would be good to get the Simulator set up with top hat ,,, but hey you cant have every thing in life you want

Enjoy the course stick in read your 100000000 pages of notes and you will get on fine 🙂

Dont read the notes and get pissed up for 9 weeks and its no job in ROV for you
😥
Enjoy

I worked offshore with one of the guys who is now one of Oceaneeing’s training people.
I don’t think you will learn much from him if he is still there.

Hmmmmmmmmm 🙄
Who trained the ROV trainer to be competant to train others 😕

Good write up Black Dog, we have had a few SSE`s on our system that have had that training and they have been fine, so the training course seems to be working. On another note my underpants keep smelling of onions, anyone got any tips?