Friday, January 29, 2010

December ' 09 to January '10 Random stuff from life on the Harrier Explorer

Here are some photos from random events in daily life on the Harrier Explorer during seismic surveying offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. The  pictures show: bunkering (taking on fuel) procedures, a tern another MMO found on the helipad after we had some stormy weather, some rough seas, views from the helideck, receiving a delivery from another ship's workboat and firefighting drills to prepare for helicopter transfers. Enjoy!

The crew preparing to receive the tow and bunkering lines

The bunker ship comes ahead of us and releases a tow line back to our ship

Now the crew tries to recover the tow line to bring onboard and attach to one of our big ship's bollards





 Bringing the tow line on board

 The bunker ship

 Bringing the bunkering nozzle onboard

 Unfortunately the first time the nozzle was brought on board the line it was being winched onboard with snapped and then there was some trouble getting the nozzle over the cleat the second time

 ...but it finally got over!


 Attaching the bunkering hose

 On watch in the bridge

 The Ramform Viking in some not so nice seas!

Poor tern!

 Workboat coming to pick up a delivery from us to go to another ship

 View to the bridge from the helideck

 View astern from the helideck

Sending a delivery to the workboat

Ocean Explorer having a close pass with a rig

 And the rig looks like it's on the Oceans' helideck!

Crew on the helideck practicing fire drills for crew transfer day

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