Questions and discussions for ROV Rookie Corner

Well werzul,

So far, so good…. Ya’ did the pre-requisites.

Industry in general is sloooooooow. And there’s been a lot of concern (for us older / established carunts) that the rates have been going south when they should be going north… At least this is MY biggest gripe / rant….

Oz is a good place to start – there’s actually guys that haven’t lived there for years heading back there – if that tells you a thing or 2…

At the moment there’s a LARGE glut of young folks and wannabees in the industry – and to my (and a few hundred other old hands) chagrin – are heavily under-cutting the dayrates. Cooks and stewards will soon surpass our pay rates.

There are already too many "training schools" – someone needs to weed them out….

Werz & Mr Black

Havn’t been on this site for ages… been trying to get experience with both hydraulics & Electronics…. sending my CV all over the place and still not getting work (even though I am passionate about the whole ROV thing)…

The industry is really very slow at the moment (and has ben for more than a year). I thought things would change with the price going over $70 and with BP’s fuckup…..but nothing is opening up.

I think my point is that if you guys really want to get into the indudustry (like I do) then you have to be pro active and learn as much as you can to make yourself(ves) employable…. hell… I’ve built my own ROV and do hull inspections at my local marina just to add it to my CV… but nothing…. Thing is I’m not going to give up just yet…. I want to be in this industry…

Are you committed….?

Intresting post R_V_C,

I ken a few loons at FMC and equivalent companies regularly getting upwards o £800 per day at equivalent o oor Sub Eng Level, hee haw responsibility and a skite mair than this an old worn Supergerkin

Canna be that hard 😆

Whaurs ma CV, i’ll easy mak the tea fir that dough…..

With regards to where the industry is going? well that depends which nationality you are, what the recent takeover bid of S club by Acergy who are both hell bent on employing cheap foreign labour, next it will be two other majors joing forces so they can compete Saipem Technip may be not French and Italians? But others?
If your Ozzie then the unions have a tight grip there so for those who are already in the industry they will be fine but not enough exploration continuity for a regular intake of new people into the ROV industry in Oz, riggers get paid more in Oz than ROV anyway, do that, easy life pull on a couple of ropes and talk shite all day.
Loads of better jobs that pay far more money in the subsea/offshore industry anyway.
Don’t waste thousands of £/$ trying to get into an industry that is not as good as everyone seems to think, I wish 15 years ago I had stayed where I was(FMC subsea completions)I would be earning about double of what I am now, after this project in Brazil finishes I am going back to that, starting at the bottom again and still be earning more than I am now.

Aye well dandydon just ventin me frustrations at whit a shite hole this industry has turned inti. f**k me 15 year ago I wiz ernin 550 nicker a day as basically a subsea tech, 15 year layer ROV superintendent and aboot the same, shite! Mate thats still wee FMC running ROVCON 700 nicker a day and double bubble aiffter twa wicks affshore, bast**d, should a bid wee im in the completions game, knockin on twa hunder gran a year and hee haw responsibility.
ROV industry foo O wa****s noo adays onywye nae craic like there youst tae be!! Why am gan back tae an industry foo O wa***s but least the dosh is crakin!!

dandy ye buying a season ticket for Pittodrie this year?