Austral Backdeck
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 2:36 pm
Well what can I say about this. For a boat that had just had a lot of money spent on it converting it to a seismic vessel, it was an absolute shambles. A real nightmare to work on. Absolutely nothing hydraulically powered to aid in section changes, lead-in changes etc, all back breaking work. The guys who worked on it will probably remember it taking 4 guys about 3/4 of an hour just to change a section. As for changing a lead-In. The reel was high up on a platform, which some people had to stand on with about 2 feet of space before you fell off. This had to be turned by hand would you believe, so practically the whole shift had to be there to get the job done. It was as if Seismic had gone 10 years backwards working on this boat. I suppose we did have some laughs though, mainly in the face of adversity I may add. Those were the days eh?
Alec
Alec