Colourblindness

[Samuel Sears]

Hi all

I have minor red/green colourblindness, and I was wondering how this would affect me as far as piloting ROV’s. The only time I’ve noticed an issue so far were yellow/green lights on automation systems.

Sorry to see you guys are shutting down. Thank you for the info provided; hopefully I can put it to good use.

Cheers

Sam

[John Bridgett]

Hi all

I have minor red/green colourblindness, and I was wondering how this would affect me as far as piloting ROV’s. The only time I’ve noticed an issue so far were yellow/green lights on automation systems.

Sorry to see you guys are shutting down. Thank you for the info provided; hopefully I can put it to good use.

Cheers

Sam

From a piloting point of view maybe not much BUT most jobs you have to be a technician too which involves fixing it and then the colour issue may be significant. Have a word with an offshore medic and see what they say.

J

[Dao Tuan Anh]

Hi

I also have red / green color blindness. I failed color blind test in my medical exam but I am still working as a ROV pilot tech. So you have nothing to worry about unless you want to switch to 3.4 inspector after ROV.

Cheers,
Anh

[T-Boy]

IMO, Offshore medics are generally as much use as tits on a fish.

It sounds like you have a colour deficiency NOT colour blindness. This is incorrectly diagnosed by a lot of medical ‘experts’.

If you are red/green colour blind, you will struggle and probably kill yourself and the whole team if you get near the HVAC, however if you are red/green deficient (which is very common) you should be fine. That said, sounds like you might get confused at traffic lights if you are struggling with Yellow/green?

If you fail the Ishihara plates you will not be able to do any ‘watch’ duties, which isn’t a problem if you are ROV.

The definitive way of checking colour deficiencies is with a bundle of different colour wires for example, but that is far to logical and technical I guess.

[Samuel Sears]

Nice guys, thanks for the input.

[Dao Tuan Anh]

There are three type of color blindness: Red/Green as me, Blue/Yellow and total color blind as this guy http://www.ted.com/talks/neil_harbisson_i_listen_to_color.html. If you have problem with red and green, I think you also have the same problem with pink and white, violet and blue, orange and yellow, etc.

As a ROV technician, you have to work with electrical wires and most of them are distinguished by its color. However, there is always another way to do the same job. I use DVM because I don’t know which one is red and which one is green during the night.

Good luck,

Anh

[Des_b]

Just make sure you get someone else to check your work….Simples!! 🙂

[T-Boy]

I use DVM because I don’t know which one is red and which one is green during the night.
Anh

You are having a girraffe 😆 Red and green on a DVM???

What’s the world coming to?!? I take my own leads offshore, the left one is ribbed and the right one is smoothe…easy peasy

😉

[Glevum]

According to the JIB electrical apprenticeship medical form JIB344

ABSENCE OF COLOUR BLINDNESS IS AN ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENT

So colour blindness will be a bigger problem from the maintainence point of view than the piloting point of view

[Dao Tuan Anh]

@T-Boy:

Sometimes in the drawing e.g. for cable, it said pin no 1 is green and no 2 is red so I have to use DVM to check the pin number 😯

@Glevum:

I agree that it is important but you know some people were born with bad eyes like me. I am myopic and astigmatic as well. Did you check the video? He is amazing 😀 We are not perfect but we can change.

[Samuel Sears]

Apparently they accidentally invented some glasses that correct colourblindness. Can’t remember what the original application was.

[David Sherry]

not sure if its the same in the ROV industry but on the more modern trucks and buses most of the wires are now the same colour and have 4 digit identifiers stamped on them at intervals spanning the length of the wire, so if you are following a wiring diagram youll have no trouble spotting the wire in the harness that your looking for.

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