How long sat on the beach..

Not me as many years in and busy busy busy . Take a minor cut in wages and work a few extra days skippy 😀

Not me as many years in and busy busy busy . Take a minor cut in wages and work a few extra days skippy 😀

Oh dear 🙁

Then (next year) take another ‘minor cut in wages’ and work for even more days to make up for the shortfall, then the following year do the same.

By the time you retire you’ll be on S$45/day and need to do 365 days a year offshore to earn the same annual income Lah!

11 weeks at home………..

Extracted from another post:

Extended time on the beach?
In the UK (at least) people should not expect to work after October and before March/April. For many years that was the generally accepted ‘season’ on the Diving and ROV front. On an annual basis the season would fluctuate depending on how buoyant the offshore industry was at the time. There may be similar seasonal periods in say the GOM or Oz?

For some reason these days people seem to think they have a god given right to work all year round in this game and seem somewhat surprised when they have been on the beach for a while. That is probably why we are seeing people looking a little surprised that they have not worked for a few months…

It goes a bit like this:

• February: Oops! I’m running out of money.
• March: The bank calls about your mortgage arrears
• Mid March: The finance company calls about your late car payment.
• Desperation starts to set in
• Late March: A company calls offering you a job for £50.00/day less than you were on last year. Out of desperation you take it.
• April/May – One of the busiest years we’ve known for a while kicks in and you start wondering why you are on such a shit rates compared to the guy next to you who just joined the vessel.
• Result! – You have successfully played into the hands of the employers

My favourite topic : How long have I been sitting on the beach for (and sitting and sitting and sitting!!!)

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2009 => 262 days

2010 => since the 8th of Jan : yes, you can do the Maths

😯

110 people on line at present.
I doubt that many of them are sitting and viewing from vessels.

2008 – 208 d
2009 – 197 d
2010 – ? (on the beach 96 days thusfar)