120 kilos too heavy

Careful now Mr. Shields…the fact that a person weighs 120kgs does not neccesarily mean that he/she is a "blimp"….Some of us have spent lots of time and effort in gyms/rugby fields/hand combat classes et al that endowed us with a fair bit of muscle weight. But I do suppose you thought of that…

However, if this quack does get his way, our vessel’s Norwegian Master, First Officer and quite a few AB’s will be done for….

How about trying to get up the stairs in an emergency only to find an overweight Fat Arse suffering a mild heart attack and blocking the exit
Or assisting Said Fat Bastard on a stretcher up the outside stairs to the hele deck on a Jack-up
Not to mention trying to get the flailing harpooned whale into a life raft without the use of davit or crane
But seriously…………………………. If you were marooned on a desert isle with a fat bastard………………. At least you could eat him 8)

120kilos is 19 stone. Shadow from Gladiators was 19 stone and six foot three. You cannot seriously tell me that there are that many offshore workers with them kind of stats.

Most guys if they are 19 stone are obese and should be given help to lose the weight from whatever company they work for.

In the suing culture we live in maybe the companies should think about the ramifications of an employee having a heart attack whilst working on a vessel where the majority of the food served is high in fat.

Do we need a fry up every morning, chips with every meal, etc. Of course the other thing is without wishing to sound nasty but fat blokes do sweat more which in an ROV shack is noticable.

I recall ……………….. Not that long ago in the far East. 8)
Crew change by Chopper from a vessel via platform.
Would you believe the disgruntlement when told that the baggage allowance was 11 k per person. Needless to say my bag weighed in at 28 K and I weigh 90 K.
The next guy up ( just so happens is the Chief Engineer ) weighing in at
129 K , Very overweight and can leave the remainder of his baggage on the vessel due to being permenant . He also has a bag but it is only 11 K.
Where is the common sense in that
He also took up two seats on the Chopper and some guys had to get off or leave their bags behind !

I have heard of some small airline (hedgehoppers) weighing people before getting onto the flight and having to re-distribute people round a plane to move the Centre of Gravity.

But yes, overweight people offshore can be a safety hazard. Next it will be fatist or something.

What type of scales did you use Scott

I have heard of some small airline (hedgehoppers) weighing people before getting onto the flight and having to re-distribute people round a plane to move the Centre of Gravity.

But yes, overweight people offshore can be a safety hazard. Next it will be fatist or something.

A few years back there was a light passenger aircraft crash in the states where it was proven that uneven weight distribution was a contributing factor to the accident. It seems for years they had been basing take off weight on old data (so called ‘average’ human weights) for flight calculations and not taken into account the the modern version of McDonalds average. All the heavies were at the tail end…. the rest you can imagine.