scot-ish
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yeh, i have the same opinion as yourself, some people are happy to get through life with a car, a house, some kids, and a routine, but for me that seems boring, i couldnt do it.
with regards to breaks, officially onboard we work 8-5, with lunch at 12-1 and two half hour breaks either side of lunch, but some days, like today, we pulled a piston the main engine, we started at 6, to ensure we had everything boxed up and finished by 5, just incase something went wrong, instead we worked 6 till half two, and that was it, everything is then turned to UMS( unmanned machinery space, so basically, everything onboard has an alarm, all the engineers have a panel in there cabin, and we take turns of being on "duty" alarm goes, and its get down as fast as you can to sort it out) and im not on duty, so now, barring a big fuck up, i finished at half 2, and start at 8am tomorow, and finish at noon( sunday is what we class half day)
Monday we go into le Harve, in France, and i will be working 8am-noon morning, and 8pm-midnight, while we discharge 500,000 barrels of oil, so between the hours of midday till 8pm, i will probably go ashore and have a look around le Harve.
on the diving thing, its funny you should mention it, as i have a mate who works on the rigs, rope access, so a rigger or something, and he emailed me earlier telling me he had just booked in to do alot of diving courses, asking if i had any contacts for him, to get into diving jobs, as its kind of the same as people have mentioned with regards to the Rigs, you really have to know someone, or get lucky. and there is alot of money in Diving, alot more than i can earn onboard a tanker anyways.
with regards to breaks, officially onboard we work 8-5, with lunch at 12-1 and two half hour breaks either side of lunch, but some days, like today, we pulled a piston the main engine, we started at 6, to ensure we had everything boxed up and finished by 5, just incase something went wrong, instead we worked 6 till half two, and that was it, everything is then turned to UMS( unmanned machinery space, so basically, everything onboard has an alarm, all the engineers have a panel in there cabin, and we take turns of being on "duty" alarm goes, and its get down as fast as you can to sort it out) and im not on duty, so now, barring a big fuck up, i finished at half 2, and start at 8am tomorow, and finish at noon( sunday is what we class half day)
Monday we go into le Harve, in France, and i will be working 8am-noon morning, and 8pm-midnight, while we discharge 500,000 barrels of oil, so between the hours of midday till 8pm, i will probably go ashore and have a look around le Harve.
on the diving thing, its funny you should mention it, as i have a mate who works on the rigs, rope access, so a rigger or something, and he emailed me earlier telling me he had just booked in to do alot of diving courses, asking if i had any contacts for him, to get into diving jobs, as its kind of the same as people have mentioned with regards to the Rigs, you really have to know someone, or get lucky. and there is alot of money in Diving, alot more than i can earn onboard a tanker anyways.
