Room 101

Too true, Remotes! you forgot the one for the rov camera where someone has to go in the shack and watch to see if the light on the remote is blinking. you’d think the led could go on top eh?

but my bitch are mice. One for the system pc (ok fair enough), but then they start adding up, one for the survey screen, one for the sonar spread etc etc. Just when you have them tucked away, something shits itself inside the console or control tray and you have to pull it out and the mice start mating until it looks like spaghetti junction.

and my all time favourite, DVD recorders. How can they be better than a vcr? hard to cue up, no audio dub, hard to relocate, replay to the action bit the client missed when he went out of the shack for a smoke etc.
Well yes maybe the quality of the recording but not on some old piece of shit system where the cameras are 15 years old and coming up coax instead of fibre optics. Companies would be better off just sending off the box of vcr’s to the dubbing shop to copy onto dvd.

ahh i think room 101 is going to full up pretty quick and let me guess. Most of it will be new tecnology stuff thats been adopted before it’s necessary or up to the job by gadget and gizmo guru’s who sit in offices and order all this stuff up. Funny how this junk usually has something to do with computers or other kit that belongs in the office. We are always very slow to adopt state of the art winches, cranes, launching systems, airconditioning etc aren’t we ????

Tobaco-chewing, banjo-playing, semi-illiterate good old boys who don’t know how to say please & thank-you. You know, the ones that call everyone else on the rig “Boy”.
We got rid of them all years ago in the North Sea, but guess what? they’re all here in Angola.
They really wind me up. 👿 👿 Yes siree Jim Bob, Billy Ray.

Missing ya plane due to drunken assholes that are on the same minibuss as you !
Travelling all day maybe two , to find that there is no food onboard when you arrive and having to go on shift four hours later !equipment needing to be serviced when the system goes into the base only to find that not a sausage has been done to it when you mobilise for the next contract !

Muppets that paint steel without taking the rust off first 👿
Trainees that say………………."I know , I know " when they bloody well don’t and wrap the rov umbilical around the bell wire !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Waiting to mobilise ( for a hired crane and welders ) All bloody day only for them to turn up just as you are going to get a shower and go for a piss up 👿
Pratts that load up the systems computer with shite and slow the thing down or crash it 👿
Waiting for the agent to arrive to get ya pasports back so that you can get off the bloody ship 👿
Trying to find the OIM to renew the workpermit……………………..only
He ain’t anywhere to be found so you have to come back again ( change out of the overalls , take the boots off up the flippin stairs……………Again ! 🙁

This is one carried over from the old forum

I’ll throw in my pet hate….

Systems with one Joystick that is supposed to do everything concerning vehicle control… We’ve got two hands… lets use them. Give me a separate vert control any day.

James Mc

One joystick is good as long as you have slide pots for trims or for partial commands.

Room 101 And the little red light to tell you the set is off? Isn’t the lack of sound and picture a bit of a clue?

The little red light is to let you know that the nasty TV Tax guy can still see that you have a TV in the house… If the set is in stand by, there is still a signal that can be picked up from it…