Standby to work ratio?

[Steve Firman]

Hi guys,

Since leaving my day job in February and work as a freelance pilot tech I have done around 80 days work, on different contracts and the ROV has been used around 4 or 5 days. My longest contract in one stint was 39 days and the ROV was used for 2 dives for around 12 hours in total….

Surely there are contracts where the ROV is used more and I have just been unlucky or lucky, depending how you see it.

I would prefer working as the time passes quicker.

Is this the norm? Thoughts please.

[Savante]

sometimes it’s the luck of the draw, there are heaps of guys reading for HNDs and BSc s these days – use the paid time to study ? there are others with pretty decent stock market portfolios and ebay online trading companies too !

If you are looking for higher utilisation, try and get in on a construction project. Sounds like you may be on a drill support job?

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