BEST IN-HOUSE TRAINING

Danfrov ran a TXL course for Technip last year. Don’t know if there are any plans for one this year. Only thing I heard about the course was it wasn’t all trainees, some had been offshore for a year………..little bit late in the day but maybe a start in the right direction.

Any comments Dan ?

piedpiper

Sony,

I run the course as in the classroom but I dont run ALL of Fugros training nor have anything to do with recruitment or selection 😕

However, yes, Fugro are recruiting (do they ever stop?) there are 8 trainees taken on every couple of months. Next course is in April so I assume the 8 have been chosen already for that. Next intake will be June, September and November.

cheers, Ray

Ray,
I disagree with you on Fugro running the most intensive induction, as i have heard that Oceaneering ABZ have been running eight week courses.
don’t know what it’s like though, if it’s like everything else Oceaneering do then likely to be crap!!!!

Ray,
I disagree with you on Fugro running the most intensive induction, as i have heard that Oceaneering ABZ have been running eight week courses.
don’t know what it’s like though, if it’s like everything else Oceaneering do then likely to be crap!!!!

I believe the Ocreaneering courses are longer, and they definately have everyone beat when it comes to the best simulator.

Would be interested to hear anyones experience of the course (or any other companys one).

Ray,
I disagree with you on Fugro running the most intensive induction, as i have heard that Oceaneering ABZ have been running eight week courses.
don’t know what it’s like though, if it’s like everything else Oceaneering do then likely to be crap!!!!

I think you must be on about the Oceaneering of old RVC,the subs that they now build are very good if not equal to perry ones . for instance the size of the Magnum Plus and what it can actualy do tooling wise and has enough oomph to compete with other new builds ,most of them are now getting mobd with top hat TMS that has been giving a new design that they are saying is great improvement on the perry one ,more room to work with and can hold 800mtrs Tether,the Millenum Plus is standard work class size and is a mighty beast of a sub and as for the Maxxum dont think there is a sub that can touch that ,i could be wrong

Right Ray the stimulator is about 95% true to life as flying a real rov ,its the exact setup as offshore the one at the training school was broken when i did the course so it was of over the road to the one in the main office VISIS or MIMIC i think the name is and appart from a few graphic imperfections it is top drawer ,you start of getting shown various controlls ,vert,latts etc you start of with flying out cage and see if you can find sweet spot to hover right up to flying out cage useing sonar ,logs ,bullseyes,manips,copilot,pilot,hot stabs,vx ring ,hooks,searching sea bed for stuff ,safe heading there is no auto depth auto heading on the dives so you actualy learn to fly to a degree obvously flying rov for real is better ,but it acts like a real rov if you pick somthing heavy up and tilt it to the side the rov acts exact same way as it would in real life ,add to that currents that can be set visiabilty like snow and motors dying out on you watar alarms going of cameras going dead and just left with sonar to get your ass back to the cage……… this is the high light of the eight weeks.

Week 1 saftey,rigging,hight awerness .
Week 2 introduction to ROVS, this could have been better notes were of old ROV systems
Week 3 and 4 stimulator time ,with exam at the end of it
Week 5 and 6 electronics, exam at end of week 5
Week 7 and 8 hydraulics,exam at end of week 8

if you fail the exams you get to resit them if you fail twice then its bye bye, NRB. the exams are open book this is were most of the problems happen as there are 9000000000 odd pages of notes get through, add to that 250 modules to do and a compentcy and training log book and you have the course and training of Oceaneering ABZ

Right i think ill get off my OI step now and call it a day and yes i know there are spelling and grammar mistakes . 😀

Mick ,er course was free its Oceaneerings in house training .

😀

R_V_C ,

I seem to have hit a raw nerve there is this because when you did your trainning ,that they didn’t have an all singing and danceing stimulator that has the exact same characteristcs of a real sub … ok if you crash it’s no big deal .and you are quite right there is no client to shout at you if it goes tits up but to simulate sea bed thats as you put it like talc currents of up to 5 knots any direction and your stb motor packing in is no prob to replicate on the sim and to be able to play about with the as you said"computer rov game" ,but it helps to see how a Magnum with the not as manouverable latteral set up on the thrusters ,to the Millenum with the vector set up and completely diff handeling and how it reacts …… still not as good as a real sub i never said it was ,as for the TMS breaking down that hardley ever hapens on the round cage set up but it always has been a prob with the top hat set up as said in previous post they both have there pros and cons .

i think it basicly gives you an understanding of how to get from cage to job and back again and teach you basic manip skills ,they are seting it up with a T4 setup instead of the ( hey man they look good those conan manips ) but are not very fixable in the field …. and all the manip work is done by flying the manip on to stab,hook,etc no grabing on to structure as you would in the field , to be perfectly honest to begin with i was the worst in the class thought the verts was a cross fader on a mixer ,as it was the old set up, and not the new verts on joystick ,that is the only thing that i could critise about it all was old set ups and when doing your test it would have been nice to of got a dvd of the dives of the (cheety view 3D )so i could look back and see how poor i was or good at certain things

any way when i have been on a real BIG job 😉 i will see were you are coming from.